West on Lung Cancer

• How the 2018 WCLC Data Change Lung Cancer Practice The 19th World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC), held September 23-26 in Toronto, featured a remarkable presidential session that included multiple practice-changing results.
  Medscape Oncology, October 04, 2018
• Jack West: Why CMS' Step Therapy Decision Is so Dangerous The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' decision to allow step therapy in Medicare Advantage Part B drug prescribing is particularly dangerous for cancer patients, argues Jack West, MD.
  Medscape Oncology, September 06, 2018
• Is Upfront Combo Therapy Better Than the Sum of Its Parts? Lung cancer studies presented at ASCO 2018 demonstrate the enduring value of chemotherapy, even in the age of targeted and immunotherapies, argues Jack West, MD.
  Medscape Oncology, August 09, 2018
• Does Immunotherapy Have a Role in EGFR-Mutant Lung Cancer?   Three thoracic oncology experts discuss the evolving role of immunotherapy and combination therapies in driver-mutation-positive lung cancer patients.
  Medscape Oncology, July 19, 2018
• In NSCLC, Immunotherapy Evolving to Become First-Line Treatment Thoracic oncologist Dr Jack West interprets the most important advanced lung cancer trials from ASCO 2018, including the 'sleeper' KEYNOTE-407 trial.
  Medscape Oncology, June 25, 2018
• The Best Ways to Dispel Patients' 'Cancer Myths' in Clinical Practice   With patients bringing more and more of their own information into cancer treatment discussions, a panel of oncologists discusses how to respectfully dispel health misinformation.
  Medscape Oncology, June 22, 2018
• ASCO Data Establish Chemo-IO as Mainstay Frontline for NSCLC   Dr Jack West moderates a panel discussion with Drs Josh Bauml and Sandip Patel on the most important lung cancer trials at ASCO 2018, with a focus on chemo-immunotherapy combinations.
  Medscape Oncology, June 21, 2018
• Tumor Mutation Burden as Biomarker: All-Systems-Go or Too Early?   Drs West, Patel, and Bauml debate the use of TMB analysis in choosing a treatment regimen for NSCLC.
  Medscape Oncology, June 21, 2018
• When Online Information Is the 'Third Party in the Exam Room'   There is too much information for doctors to 'know it all’ anymore. Drs West, Pal, and Gilligan discuss the changing doctor-patient relationship, including when patients become the educators.
  Medscape Oncology, June 14, 2018
• Which Patients With CNS Metastases Can Avoid Radiation?   Thoracic oncologists Drs Jack West and Hossein Borghaei talk about the CNS activity of new lung cancer agents and whether it means some patients can forgo radiotherapy.
  Medscape Oncology, May 31, 2018
• Dealing With Data Overload in Oncology   From pharmaceutical press releases to highly motivated online patient groups, oncologists are on the receiving end of a firehose of information. Here are some solutions.
  Medscape Oncology, May 30, 2018
• Time to 'Rethink' Immunotherapy for Molecularly Driven NSCLC   Drs West and Borghaei discuss IMpower150 and why clinicians should reconsider using immunotherapy as a last line of defense in molecularly driven NSCLC.
  Medscape Oncology, May 24, 2018
• Trial 'Desperately Needed' to Sequence Immunotherapy and Chemo in Lung Cancer   Thoracic oncologists Drs Jack West and Hossein Borghaei discuss critical questions in the treatment of low-expressing or PD-L1-negative non-small cell lung cancer patients.
  Medscape Oncology, May 18, 2018
• KEYNOTE-189: Chemo + Immunotherapy Now Viable for PD-L1 Low NSCLC   While KEYNOTE-189 answered many questions about immuno-oncology for NSCLC, Drs West and Borghaei look forward to results of KEYNOTE-042 for even more answers.
  Medscape Oncology, May 17, 2018
• PFS Is a Shortcut, Not a Destination Oncologists need to remember that PFS is a surrogate for the most important endpoint--how long our patients live, argues H. Jack West, MD.
  Medscape Oncology, May 15, 2018
• Is This New Immunotherapy Biomarker Really 'Ready for Primetime'?   Drs West and Borghaei discuss the current state of tumor mutational burden as a potential biomarker for lung cancer.
  Medscape Oncology, May 11, 2018
• Interpreting KEYNOTE-189 and CheckMate-227 for Clinical Practice Thoracic oncologist H. Jack West, MD, takes a close look at the clinical implications of two major lung cancer clinical trials presented at AACR.
  Medscape Oncology, April 24, 2018
• 'Reinventing Healthcare' Without the People Who Care for Patients In this commentary, Dr Jack West points out that a unifying theme of the many conferences and companies purporting to disrupt healthcare is that they don't include actual physicians in their planning.
  Medscape Oncology, March 14, 2018
• It's Time to Renew Our Vows With Evidence-Based Medicine Evidence-based medicine is being undermined on many sides, argues Dr Jack West. And the medical community is complicit.
  Medscape Oncology, February 01, 2018
• Top 5 Practice-Changing Developments in Lung Cancer in 2017 Last year was a big one for lung cancer therapy developments. Here are five of the most clinically relevant, with a brief commentary by lung cancer expert H. Jack West, MD.
  Medscape Oncology, January 08, 2018