Recently, the FDA granted approval to cemiplimab-rwlc (Libtayo®, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) for the first-line treatment of patients with advanced non-small lung cancer cell (NSCLC) whose tumors express programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) in at least 50% of their cells and whose tumors do not have aberrations in epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK), or C-ROS oncogene 1 (ROS1). In this interview, Ahmet Sezer, MD, Professor in the Department of Medical Onco...

Recently, the FDA granted approval to cemiplimab (Libtayo®, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals) for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic basal cell carcinoma (BCC) who were previously treated with a hedgehog pathway inhibitor (HHI) or who are ineligible for HHI therapy. In this interview, Karl Lewis, MD, Professor of Medical Oncology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and one of the investigators of Study 1620 (NCT03132636), on which the approval was based, spe...

The FDA has approved cemiplimab-rwlc (Libtayo®, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.), a programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) inhibitor, for the first-line treatment of patients with advanced non-small lung cancer cell (NSCLC) whose tumors express programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) in at least 50% of their cells and whose tumors do not have aberrations in epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK), or C-ROS oncogene 1 (ROS1). "An estimated 25% to 35% of advanced NSCLC ...