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Adagrasib with or without Nivolumab before Surgery for the Treatment of KRAS G12C Mutated Stage IB-IIIA Resectable Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Trial Status: withdrawn

This phase II trial compares adagrasib with or without nivolumab before surgery in treating patients with stage IB-IIIA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that has a KRAS G12C gene mutation and that can be removed by surgery (resectable). The most common kind of mutation in lung cancer is in a gene called KRAS, and new drugs are available that ‘target’ and treat cancers with this mutation. Adagrasib is a drug designed to target some of these KRAS mutations (called G12C) and has shown promising benefit in patients with NSCLC that has already spread in the body. G12C is the term that is used to describe how one of the deoxyribonucleic acid building blocks in the KRAS gene, glycine (G), is changed—or mutated—to a cysteine (C) building block. This mutation change in the KRAS gene leads to this increased growth of tumor cells. Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as nivolumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Giving adagrasib with or without nivolumab before surgery may decrease the likelihood that the cancer returns after surgery and improve long-term survival for patients with NSCLC with a KRAS G12C mutation.