Mark G. Kris, MD, discusses second-line therapy for non–small cell lung cancers.
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The second thing that is absolutely critical is to very carefully assess when that first-line therapy has stopped working and whether there is a need for a new systemic therapy. We very often have these situations where there is an oligoprogression, and by treating a single symptomatic lesion, you may get the patient in a very good place and may continue initial therapy. Very often, there is inconsequential growth of the cancer.
With second-line therapy, sadly, none of them have a huge benefit anywhere near what we see in first line. All the rates of response are well under 50%. Just getting into it, you're not going to shrink the cancer by more than 30% in the majority of patients, so you have to think long and hard about making that switch., and the numbers on docetaxel are really not great. It's about a 15% rate of response and a median survival of about 5 months.
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