Brain MRI surveillance without prophylactic cranial irradiation improves cognitive outcomes in small cell lung cancer

In the SWOG S1827 MAVERICK Phase III randomized trial, patients with small-cell lung crab (SCLC) who underwent regular encephalon MRI surveillance without prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) had importantly amended cognitive failure-free endurance (the superior endpoint of the trial), without an evident quality successful wide survival, according to results presented astatine the Presidential Symposium of the IASLC 2026 World Conference connected Lung Cancer, hosted by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, successful Seoul, South Korea.