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NCCN guidelines® Insights: Non-small cell lung cancer, version 4.2016 Featured updates to the NCCN guidelines

  • David S. Ettinger
  • , Douglas E. Wood
  • , Wallace Akerley
  • , Lyudmila A. Bazhenova
  • , Hossein Borghaei
  • , David Ross Camidge
  • , Richard T. Cheney
  • , Lucian R. Chirieac
  • , Thomas A. D'Amico
  • , Thomas J. Dilling
  • , M. Chris Dobelbower
  • , Ramaswamy Govindan
  • , Mark Hennon
  • , Leora Horn
  • , Thierry M. Jahan
  • , Ritsuko Komaki
  • , Rudy P. Lackner
  • , Michael Lanuti
  • , Rogerio Lilenbaum
  • , Jules Lin
  • Billy W. Loo, Renato Martins, Gregory A. Otterson, Jyoti D. Patel, Katherine M. Pisters, Karen Reckamp, Gregory J. Riely, Steven E. Schild, Theresa A. Shapiro, Neelesh Sharma, James Stevenson, Scott J. Swanson, Kurt Tauer, Stephen C. Yang, Kristina Gregory, Miranda Hughes
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
  • University of Utah
  • University of California at San Diego
  • University of Colorado Cancer Center
  • Roswell Park Cancer Institute
  • Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center
  • Duke University
  • University of South Florida
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • Washington University St. Louis
  • Vanderbilt University
  • University of California at San Francisco
  • University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • University of Nebraska Medical Center
  • Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
  • Yale University
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Stanford University
  • Ohio State University
  • Northwestern University
  • City of Hope National Medical Center
  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  • Mayo Clinic
  • Case Western Reserve University
  • University of Tennessee Health Science Center
  • National Comprehensive Cancer Network

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367 Scopus citations

Abstract

These NCCN Guidelines Insights focus on recent updates in the 2016 NCCN Guidelines for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC; Versions 1-4). These NCCN Guidelines Insights will discuss new immunotherapeutic agents, such as nivolumab and pembrolizumab, for patients with metastatic NSCLC. For the 2016 update, the NCCN panel recommends immune checkpoint inhibitors as preferred agents (in the absence of contraindications) for second-line and beyond (subsequent) therapy in patients with metastatic NSCLC (both squamous and nonsquamous histologies). Nivolumab and pembrolizumab are preferred based on improved overall survival rates, higher response rates, longer duration of response, and fewer adverse events when compared with docetaxel therapy.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)255-264
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN
Volume14
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1 2016

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

  • Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized/adverse effects
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal/adverse effects
  • Antineoplastic Agents/adverse effects
  • Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/drug therapy
  • Carcinoma, Squamous Cell/drug therapy
  • Docetaxel
  • Humans
  • Immunosuppressive Agents/adverse effects
  • Immunotherapy/methods
  • Lung Neoplasms/drug therapy
  • Nivolumab
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic
  • Survival Rate
  • Taxoids/adverse effects

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