Publications by authors named "I I Bara"

Article Synopsis
  • A study was conducted to evaluate the impact of atezolizumab before and after chemoradiation therapy (CRT) in patients with unresectable stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), showing promise in enhancing treatment outcomes.
  • The trial involved 62 patients who received four cycles of atezolizumab, followed by CRT, with the primary measure being the disease control rate at 12 weeks.
  • Results indicated improved disease control and safety patterns, suggesting pre-emptive use of atezolizumab could enhance patient responses to treatment.
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Introduction: Immune-related adverse events (irAEs) due to immune checkpoint inhibitors can have complicated clinical courses. We comprehensively evaluated the timing, trajectory, and incidence of both single and multiple irAEs for NSCLC treated with atezolizumab.

Methods: Data were pooled from 2457 patients who participated in the IMpower130, IMpower132, and IMpower150 clinical trials investigating the use of atezolizumab in metastatic NSCLC as part of a chemoimmunotherapy regimen.

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The standard of care (SoC) for medically operable patients with early-stage (stages I-IIIB) NSCLC is surgery combined with (neo)adjuvant systemic therapy for patients with stages II to IIIB disease and some stage IB or, rarely, chemoradiation (stage III disease with mediastinal lymph node metastases). Despite these treatments, metastatic recurrence is common and associated with poor survival, highlighting the need for systemic therapies that are more effective than the current SoC. After the success of targeted therapy (TT) in patients with advanced NSCLC harboring oncogenic drivers, these agents are being investigated for the perioperative (neoadjuvant and adjuvant) treatment of patients with early-stage NSCLC.

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Importance: Immune-related adverse events (irAEs) arising from immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) cancer therapy may potentially predict improved outcomes.

Objective: To evaluate the association between irAEs and atezolizumab efficacy in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) using pooled data from 3 phase 3 ICI studies.

Design, Setting, And Participants: IMpower130, IMpower132, and IMpower150 were phase 3, multicenter, open-label, randomized clinical trials to evaluate the efficacy and safety of chemoimmunotherapy combinations involving atezolizumab.

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Given that aesthetic experiences typically involve extracting meaning from environment, we believe that semantic cognition research has much to offer the field of neuroaesthetics. In the current paper, we propose a generalised framework that is inspired by the semantic cognition literature and that treats aesthetic experience as just one example of how meaning accumulates. According to our framework, aesthetic experiences are underpinned by the same cognitive and brain systems that are involved in deriving meaning from the environment in general, such as modality-specific conceptual representations and controlled processes for retrieving the appropriate type of information.

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