Adjuvant therapy for resected non-small-cell lung cancer: Past, present, and future

Non-small-cell lung cancer has the highest mortality of all malignancies worldwide. Unfortunately, only the minority of patients diagnosed will have potentially curable disease. Over the past 30 years, dozens of trials have been conducted assessing adjuvant treatments to augment the survival advantage offered by surgery. It has only been in the past 5 years that promising results have begun to be seen. Cisplatin-based therapy has now been shown …