Lung Cancer Considered -- Immunotherapy Toxicity: Myths & Pearls
Update: 2025-12-30
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Since the first immunotherapy agent for lung cancer was approved in 2015, this class of drugs has captured the imagination and the narrative for the treatment of driver negative lung cancer. Immunotherapy is now the standard of care for most patients with lung cancer in some form. And while not all patients benefit, those that do, have the chance for transformative benefit. In today’s episode, we focus not on the benefit of immunotherapy, which can be massive, but on the toxicity of immunotherapy.
Guest: Dr. Jarushka Naidoo, a consultant medical oncologist at Beaumont Hospital Dublin and a Professor in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She currently serves as national lung cancer lead for Cancer Trials Ireland and serves on several international guideline panels including ASCO and SITC
Guest: Dr. Jarushka Naidoo, a consultant medical oncologist at Beaumont Hospital Dublin and a Professor in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She currently serves as national lung cancer lead for Cancer Trials Ireland and serves on several international guideline panels including ASCO and SITC
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