Articles

Lung cancer screening in 2022: How should we screen optimally?

BJMO - volume 16, issue 6, october 2022

J.P. Van Meerbeeck MD, PhD, A. Snoeckx MD, PhD

SUMMARY

On the brink of the implementation of lung cancer screening, the road from a controlled clinical trial to the real world is long, winding and not without hurdles. The latter will be addressed to come to an optimal lung cancer screening environment in Belgium.

(BELG J MED ONCOL 2022;16(6):279–86)

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How to overcome resistance to epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors in patients with advanced epidermal growth factor receptor mutated non-small-cell lung cancer?

BJMO - volume 12, issue 2, march 2018

J. Raskin , B.I. Hiddinga MD, A. Janssens MD, PhD, P. Pauwels MD, PhD, J.P. Van Meerbeeck MD, PhD

Summary

Targeted therapies have transformed the management of non–small-cell lung cancer and placed an increased emphasis on stratifying patients on the basis of the presence of oncogenic drivers. The best characterised molecular driver to date is epidermal growth factor receptor. Selective oral inhibitors of epidermal growth factor receptor that are superior to chemotherapy have become available in clinical practice. Unfortunately progression develops after a median of ten to twelve months. This article provides a framework for understanding clinically relevant resistance mechanisms to epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitors and strategies to delay or overcome resistance, both those clinically available and those in development.

(BELG J MED ONCOL 2018;12(2):68–74)

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Highlights in thoracic oncology

BJMO - volume 8, issue 5, november 2014

B. Hiddinga MD, J.P. Van Meerbeeck MD, PhD

This report will highlight 10 important studies presented during ESMO 2014, and 4 small but promising future directions in the treatment of NSCLC. The presidential symposium featured two negative studies in a large cohort of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients: the MAGRIT and IMPRESS. The other topics include immunotherapy, targeted treatment and biomarkers, development of new drugs in ALK-EML rearranged NSCLC, and prevention of cachexia in NSCLC. Lastly, an important study in malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) was presented.

(BELG J MED ONCOL 2014;8(4):152–7)

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