West on Lung Cancer

• 5 Key Targeted Therapy Advances for Lung Cancer Drs West and Aggarwal share their thoughts on the past decade's targeted therapy innovations, and how they may keep going well into the 2020s.
  Medscape Oncology, March 26, 2020
• Italian Oncologist's Cautionary Advice on COVID-19 for US Centers Marina Garassino, MD, chief of the Medical Thoracic Oncology Unit at the Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori in Milan, Italy, talks about her experience during Italy's COVID-19 outbreak.
  Medscape Oncology, March 20, 2020
• Top 5 Advances in Lung Cancer Immunotherapy Over the Past Decade Lung cancer experts Jack West and Charu Aggarwal highlight the biggest immunotherapy trials in thoracic oncology from 2010 to 2019.
  Medscape Oncology, January 23, 2020
• Overcoming Territoriality in Palliative Cancer Care Dr Jack West says it is time to embrace a team approach when it comes to initiating discussions about end-of-life care with patients with advanced cancer.
  Medscape Oncology, January 21, 2020
• 'Open Notes': Too Much Transparency With Patients? A new film about a terminal cancer diagnosis, along with his own institution's move to an open notes system, get Dr Jack West to thinking about how we disclose bad news to our patients with cancer.
  Medscape Oncology, November 07, 2019
• Time to Rethink Treating Brain Metastases in NSCLC? Dr Jack West on how immunotherapy has opened up new potential for intracranial disease control.
  Medscape Oncology, August 15, 2019
• New Targets in Lung Cancer Shape Treatment Options Thoracic oncologist Jack West talks about research presented at ASCO 2019 on new targets in lung cancer that may now be ready to move out of the research setting and into the clinic.
  Medscape Oncology, July 16, 2019
• Notion of Academic and Community Oncology 'Tribes' Needs to End   'You know, we're on the same team.' Drs West, Garon, and Lewis discuss the growing challenges of patient care in this world of information excess, particularly for those practicing in the community.
  Medscape Oncology, June 14, 2019
• 'Mind-boggling' IO Data, Plus New Combos, Targets for NSCLC   Drs West, Aggarwal, and Patel discuss the 'mind-boggling,' 'humbling,' and 'amazing' advances in survival statistics and targeted therapies for NSCLC presented at ASCO 2019.
  Medscape Oncology, June 07, 2019
• ASCO: Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing, Baby Jack West, a long-time advocate of viewing ASCO meeting presentations virtually, reverses course after a meeting in which the excitement of connecting in person was especially tangible.
  Medscape Oncology, June 06, 2019
• 'How Could We Fail so Miserably?' A new study using real-world data suggests that far too many patients with driver mutations are dying without receiving effective treatments.
  Medscape Oncology, May 16, 2019
• Should We Be Doing Molecular Testing at the Time of Acquired Resistance? A study of ALK-positive lung cancer raises questions about the role of repeat biopsies, as well as the relative value of tissue versus plasma molecular testing.
  Medscape Oncology, April 10, 2019
• Linking Community and Academic Oncologists: Creating a New Model Can oncologists continue to deliver cancer care without subspecialization? Jack West envisions a team-based model that capitalizes on oncologists' unique strengths.
  Medscape Oncology, March 08, 2019
• Is It Timing or Access? How Clinical Trials Game the System In many cancer trials, a critical question is never answered: How important is it to give a new drug first?
  Medscape Oncology, February 21, 2019
• You Don't Need 800 Cable Channels (Or Tumor Genetic Mutations) Jack West discusses the limits of personalized medicine using next-generation sequencing, and in particular the difficulty of scaling up a truly 'personalized' approach.
  Medscape Oncology, December 21, 2018
• At ESMO, New Data on Managing Long-term Immunotherapy Responders Despite closely following the 2018 World Conference on Lung Cancer, this year's annual congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology offered important immunotherapy data in lung cancer.
  Medscape Oncology, November 13, 2018
• 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