Immunotherapy Advances Expand the SCLC Treatment Paradigm: With Chandler Park, MD, and Tejas Patil, MD

Season 11, Episode 19,   Oct 02, 07:51 PM

In part 2 of this 3-part Oncology Unplugged series, Chandler Park, MD, a genitourinary medical oncologist at Norton Cancer Institute in Louisville, Kentucky, and Tejas Patil, MD, an assistant professor of medical oncology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, discussed the evolving small cell lung cancer (SCLC) treatment paradigm. They examined critical data from recent studies, focusing on the role of prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) and the effects of immune checkpoint inhibitors in both limited-stage SCLC (LS-SCLC) and extensive-stage SCLC (ES-SCLC).