Complete Pathologic Response When Adding Pembrolizumab to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Stage IIIA Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer.
- Resource Type
- Case Study
- Authors
- Hill, Addie; Gong, Jun; Wilczynski, Sharon; Mirza, Rizvan; Erhunmwunsee, Loretta; Salgia, Ravi
- Source
- Journal of Oncology Practice. Sep2018, Vol. 14 Issue 9, p569-571. 5p.
- Subject
- *CANCER chemotherapy
*COMBINED modality therapy
*COMPUTED tomography
*COUGH
*IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY
*LUNG cancer
*MONOCLONAL antibodies
*PAIN
- Language
- ISSN
- 1554-7477
The article presents a case study of a 46-year-old woman having productive cough and left-sided scapular pain along with a massin the left hemithorax and an enlarged left hilar lymph node. Topics discussed include the use of immunotherapy for treating modality in metastatic non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), induction chemotherapy followed by pneumonectomy, and the treatment for stage IIIA NSCLC with neoadjuvant chemotherapy or chemoradiation.