Abstract
The treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has increasingly been driven by the presence of targetable driver mutations, including epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations. Tyrosine receptor inhibitors (TKIs) have subsequently emerged as the standard-of-care treatment for EGFR-mutant NSCLC. However, there are currently limited treatment options for TKI-refractory EGFR-mutant NSCLC. It is in this context that immunotherapy has arisen as a particularly promising player, especially in the context of favorable results from the ORIENT-31 and IMpower150 trials. Thus, the results of the CheckMate-722 trial were highly anticipated, as it was the first global trial to evaluate the efficacy of immunotherapy in addition to standard platinum-based chemotherapy, specifically in the treatment of EGFR-mutant NSCLC post-progression on TKIs.
Disclosure
Dr Misako Nagasaka reports personal fees from AstraZeneca, Daiichi Sankyo, Novartis, EMD Serono, Pfizer, Lilly, Genentech, Mirati, Caris Life Sciences, Takeda, Janssen, Blueprint Medicine, personal fees and non-financial support from AnHeart Therapeutics, outside the submitted work. The authors report no other conflicts of interest in this work.