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Immunotherapy for early lung cancer was used

By | translator Choi HeeYoung

23.06.29 06:17:53

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National Cancer Center, Professor Lee Geon-guk, Department of Pathology, Professor Ahn Byung-Cheol, Department of Hematology-Oncology

¡°Feeling the effect of immuno-anticancer drugs at the clinics/ improving patient treatment prognosis¡±

Lung cancer with high recurrence risk, consider using adjuvant therapy

As immuno-anticancer drugs can be used in early lung cancer, the prognosis of patients is improving. Unlike before, when chemotherapy and concurrent chemoradiation were all, it is evaluated that the number of cases of 'complete pathological remission' has increased. Opdivo was approved by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety in October of last year for adjuvant therapy before non-small cell lung cancer surgery. This is the first case in which immuno-oncology drugs have advanced into adjuvant therapy before surgery. Specifically, Opdivo can be used along with chemotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer patients with tumors larger than 4 cm or with positive lymph nodes. The treatment proceeds by using 3 cycles of Opdivo + c

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