John M Wrangle, Vamsidhar Velcheti, Manish R Patel, Elizabeth Garrett-Mayer, Elizabeth G Hill, James G Ravenel, Jeffrey S Miller, Mohammad Farhad, Kate Anderton, Kathryn Lindsey, Michele Taffaro-Neskey, Carol Sherman, Samantha Suriano, Marzena Swiderska-Syn, Amy Sion, Joni Harris, Andie R Edwards, Julie A Rytlewski, Catherine M Sanders, Erik C Yusko, Mark D Robinson, Carsten Krieg, William L Redmond, Jack O Egan, Peter R Rhode, Emily K Jeng, Amy D Rock, Hing C Wong, Mark P Rubinstein
BACKGROUND: Immunotherapy with PD-1 or PD-L1 blockade fails to induce a response in about 80% of patients with unselected non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and many of those who do initially respond then develop resistance to treatment. Agonists that target the shared interleukin-2 (IL-2) and IL-15Rβγ pathway have induced complete and durable responses in some cancers, but no studies have been done to assess the safety or efficacy of these agonists in combination with anti-PD-1 immunotherapy...
April 5, 2018: Lancet Oncology