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Tracey L. Evans, MD, on NSCLC: Combined-Modality Therapy

2017 Multidisciplinary Thoracic Cancers Symposium

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Tracey L. Evans, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania, discusses the data supporting use of chemotherapy with radiation in locally advanced non–small cell lung cancer, targeted treatments and immunotherapy, and some of the controversies now debated.



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