lung cancer

The role of lung dysfunction and COVID-19 severity in the development of long-term COVID

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Study: Genome-wide association study of long COVID. Image Credit: NiphonSubsri/Shutterstock.com

In a study published in the medRxiv* preprint server, a team of interdisciplinary research groups has identified a genome-wide significant association (GWAS) for long-term coronavirus disease (COVID) at the FOXP4 locus, which has previously been associated with cancer, severe COVID 2019 ( COVID-19) and lung function. Study: Genome-wide association study of long COVID. Image Credit: … Read more

Neoadjuvant/chemo nivolumab wins EU approval for resectable PD-L1+ NSCLC

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Neoadjuvant/chemo nivolumab wins EU approval for resectable PD-L1+ NSCLC

The European Commission (EC) has approved nivolumab (Opdivo) in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy for the neoadjuvant treatment of patients with resectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) at high risk of recurrence with PD-L1 expression in cells tumors of at least 1%.1 The regulatory decision was supported by data from the Phase 3 CheckMate 816 study … Read more