Ana Drozdowskyj

TL;DR: Erlotinib has been shown to improve progression-free survival compared with chemotherapy when given as first-line treatment for Asian patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with activating EGFR mutations as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Low-level pretreatment T790M mutations can frequently be detected and can be used for customizing treatment with T790m-specific inhibitors and can potentially be used as a biomarker of survival in EGFR-mutant NSCLC and for synthetic lethality therapies.

TL;DR: The peptide nucleic acid-mediated 5´ nuclease real-time polymerase chain reaction (TaqMan) assay used in this study can be used to efficiently assess EGFR mutations in cfDNA and may be a novel surrogate prognostic marker.

TL;DR: This study uncovers a coordinated signaling network centered on both STAT3 and Src-YAP signaling that limits targeted therapy response in lung cancer and identifies an unforeseen rational upfront polytherapy strategy to minimize residual disease and enhance clinical outcomes.

TL;DR: IFN-γ is an important marker for prediction of response to immune checkpoint blockade in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and melanoma patients and is warranted in order to validate whether IFNG is more accurate than PD-L1.