Publications by authors named "Garff G"

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  • Pembrolizumab and nivolumab, two immunotherapy drugs, are used to treat advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and a recent study (IDEE) aimed to assess their safety and effectiveness in real-world conditions.
  • The study included 117 patients, revealing a median age of 67 years, a 79% survival rate at 12 months, and a median time to treatment failure of 9.2 months, with 28% of failures due to toxicity.
  • Overall, the findings suggest that the double-dose regimen is feasible, with no major safety or efficacy concerns identified from the real-life data.
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Background: The impact of the most recent advances, including targeted therapies and immune checkpoint inhibitors, on early (3-month) mortality in lung cancer is unknown. The aims of this study were to evaluate the real-world rate of and risk factors for early mortality, as well as trends in early mortality over the last 20 years.

Materials And Methods: The KBP prospective observational multicenter studies have been conducted every 10 years since 2000.

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Background: Although ALK-translocated (ALK+) advanced non-small cell lung cancers (aNSCLCs) are currently treated with second- or third-generation ALK inhibitors (ALK-TKIs), some patients respond durably to the first-generation ALK-TKI crizotinib.

Objective: This study aimed to describe the clinical characteristics of these long-term responders.

Patients And Methods: This national, multicenter, retrospective, non-interventional study included patients with ALK+ aNSCLCs and long-term responses to first (L1)- or subsequent (≥ L2)-line crizotinib, defined, respectively, as treatments lasting > 18 and > 10 months.

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Objective: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of second-line metronomic oral vinorelbine-atezolizumab combination for stage IV non-small-cell lung cancer.

Methods: This was a multicenter, open-label, single-arm Phase II study performed in patients with advanced NSCLC without activating EGFR mutation or ALK rearrangement who progressed after first-line platinum-doublet chemotherapy. Combination treatment was atezolizumab (1200 mg IV day 1, every 3 weeks) and oral vinorelbine (40 mg, 3 times by week).

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Objectives: Few data are available on the impact of KRAS mutation in patients with advanced non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (aNSCLC) treated with immunotherapy. This analysis assessed the impact of KRAS mutation on the efficiency of first-line pembrolizumab immunotherapy in aNSCLC patients with PD-L1 ≥ 50 %.

Methods: This was a secondary analysis of the ESCKEYP study, a retrospective, national, multicenter study which included consecutively all metastatic NSCLC patients who initiated first-line treatment with pembrolizumab monotherapy from May 2017 (date of pembrolizumab availability in this indication in France) to November 22, 2019 (pembrolizumab-chemotherapy combination approval).

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Introduction: Advanced non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NsqNSCLC) progressing at the induction of a first-line of platin-based chemotherapy is a subgroup of patients with poor prognosis and few second-line treatment options.

Materials And Methods: This single-stage phase II prospective multicenter open-label trial performed in platin-based refractory (i.e.

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Dabrafenib plus trametinib combination is approved in Europe for V600E-mutant metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The objective of this study was to assess efficacy and safety of this combination in a real-world setting. This retrospective multicentric study included 40 patients with advanced NSCLC harboring V600E mutation and receiving dabrafenib plus trametinib.

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Background: Topotecan is currently the only drug approved in Europe in a second-line setting for the treatment of small-cell lung cancer. This study investigated whether the doublet of carboplatin plus etoposide was superior to topotecan as a second-line treatment in patients with sensitive relapsed small-cell lung cancer.

Methods: In this open-label, randomised, phase 3 trial done in 38 hospitals in France, we enrolled patients with histologically or cytologically confirmed advanced stage IV or locally relapsed small-cell lung cancer, who responded to first-line platinum plus etoposide treatment, but who had disease relapse or progression at least 90 days after completion of first-line treatment.

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Article Synopsis
  • Antiangiogenic agents have shown to improve outcomes for non-squamous non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients, but there's limited information on their eligibility for squamous NSCLC (SQ-NSCLC) patients.
  • In a study involving 317 advanced SQ-NSCLC patients, over half were found to have ineligibility criteria for receiving antiVEGF treatment, with the most common issues including disease extension and cardiovascular conditions.
  • Despite these concerns, nearly half of the participants were eligible for antiVEGF agents, suggesting that more research and development for these treatments in SQ-NSCLC should be pursued.
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Background: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have been approved as second-line therapy for advanced non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLCs) progressing after platinum-based chemotherapy. However, some patients' disease progressed rapidly and sometimes exhibited explosive tumor progression. This descriptive, prospective study aimed to assess the characteristics of nonresponders with rapid progression (RP), defined as progression-free survival (PFS) ≤2 or 2-4 months under ICIs.

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Objective: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) for cancer therapy frequently induce immune-related adverse effects (IRAEs). Therefore, most patients with preexisting autoimmune diseases have been excluded from clinical trials of ICIs. This study was undertaken to evaluate the safety and efficacy of ICIs in patients with preexisting autoimmune disease and cancer.

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Background: The non-interventional ASSESS study (NCT01785888) evaluated the utility of circulating free tumor-derived DNA (ctDNA) from plasma for epidermal growth factor receptor () mutation testing in patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), in a real-world setting across 56 centers in Europe and Japan. The high mutation status concordance between 1162 matched tissue/cytology and plasma samples (89%, sensitivity =46%, specificity =97%) suggested that ctDNA is a feasible sample for mutation analysis. We report data for the French subset of patients (pre-planned analysis).

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Unlabelled: Retrospective studies suggested a benefit of first-line tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) treatment continuation after response evaluation in solid tumors (RECIST) progression in epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-mutated non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. The aim of this multicenter observational retrospective study was to assess the frequency of this practice and its impact on overall survival (OS). The analysis included advanced EGFR-mutated NSCLC patients treated with first-line TKI who experienced RECIST progression between June 2010 and July 2012.

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Tracheobronchomegaly is defined as a dilatation of the trachea and the large bronchi. It may occur as a familial condition or in association with a connective tissue disease, e.g.

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We report the case of a recurrent right pneumothorax, revealing metastasis of an osteosarcoma, 40 months after complete remission. Seven years after surgical excision, the patient is still considered in complete remission. Pneumothorax is rarely the first manifestation of lung metastasis.

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