{"id":146402,"date":"2022-09-14T17:22:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T22:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/lung-cancer-pill-outperforms-chemotherapy-in-clinical-trials"},"modified":"2022-09-14T17:22:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T22:22:38","slug":"lung-cancer-pill-outperforms-chemotherapy-in-clinical-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/lung-cancer-pill-outperforms-chemotherapy-in-clinical-trials","title":{"rendered":"Lung cancer pill outperforms chemotherapy in clinical trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lung-cancer-pill-outperforms-chemotherapy-in-clinical-trials2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/changing-america\/well-being\/medical-advances\/3631054-what-to-know-about-robotic-assisted-lung-screening-for-cancer\/\">Lung cancer<\/a> is the third most common cancer in the U.S., according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/cancer\/lung\/statistics\/index.htm\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>. Patients may be treated by a variety of approved immunotherapies and chemotherapies if surgery is not an option.<\/p>\n<p>An oral pill for lung cancer named Lumakras, made by Amgen, shows promise for lung cancer patients who have tried many other treatments already with little improvement.<\/p>\n<p>In phase 3 clinical trials, patients with non-small cell lung cancer received Lumakras or intravenous chemotherapy (docetaxel). The patients may have tried other treatments like immunotherapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lung cancer is the third most common cancer in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Patients may be treated by a variety of approved immunotherapies and chemotherapies if surgery is not an option. An oral pill for lung cancer named Lumakras, made by Amgen, shows promise for lung cancer patients [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}