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Qi Liu, PhD, on NSCLC: Pneumonitis, Immunotherapy, and Chemotherapy

AACR Virtual Annual Meeting 2020 I

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Qi Liu, PhD, of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, discusses data that suggest that patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer who had a past medical history of pneumonitis were more likely to experience treatment-associated pneumonitis in response to immune checkpoint inhibitors or chemotherapy (Abstract CT086).



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