Can a cholesterol drug help immunotherapy work again in lung cancer?

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Histologically documented recurrent and/or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer * Progression after prior PD-1 directed therapy (as monotherapy or in combination with chemotherapy and/or anti-CTLA4, or anti-VEGF agents) - defined as investigator assessed progression from prior treatment * If molecularly altered NSCLC including EGFR, ALK, ROS1, MET exon 14, RET, BRAF, NTRK, progression on prior targeted therapy is required * Measurable disease by RECIST 1.1 * ECOG Performance Status 0 or 1 * Signed written informed consent * Minimum of 4 weeks from any other experimental anti-cancer therapies or prior PD-1 treatment * Meet all the laboratory criteria per protocol Exclusion Criteria: * Prior treatment with PCSK9 inhibitors * Cardiac issues including MI, uncontrolled arrhythmia, symptomatic angina pectoris, active ischemia, or cardiac failure not controlled by medications. * Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, defined as HbA1c \> 10 * Major surgery less than 4 weeks prior to study enrollment * Another malignant condition diagnosed within 3 years of study enrollment * Intolerance to prior PD-1/L1 treatment including discontinuation for severe or recurrent severe toxicity (including myocarditis or other myocardiotoxity, encephalitis, colitis, diarrhea, pancreatitis, hypo/hyperthyroidism, hypopituitarism, adrenal insufficiency, rash, autonomic neuropathy, myasthenia gravis, Guillain-Barre, myositis/polymyositis, hepatitis, Type 1 Diabetes, thrombocytopenia) or developed an immune checkpoint blockade related immune adverse event that was refractory to steroids and required additional systemic immunosuppressive medication. * Known history of HIV seropositivity or known acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) * Additional exclusion criterion as per listed in the protocol