Small Trial Shows Big Risks of Giving First Line Pembrolizumab to EGFR Mutation-Positive Patients, Even with High Tumor PD-L1 Expression (BMIC-042)

The Beacon (Audio)
28/06/2018 7 min
Small Trial Shows Big Risks of Giving First Line Pembrolizumab to EGFR Mutation-Positive Patients, Even with High Tumor PD-L1 Expression (BMIC-042)

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Dr. Jack West summarizes a small trial from UCLA that tests the utility of giving first line immunotherapy to EGFR mutation-positive patients with high tumor PD-L1 expression, which led to poor outcomes that should cast a long shadow on this approach.

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