Sentences with phrase «egfr tyrosine kinase»

Erlotinib, an EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor, has proven to be an effective agent in patients with mutations in the EGFR gene, but its efficacy in wild - type EGFR patients was unclear.

33) Gandhi J, Zhang J, Xie Y, Shigematsu H, Soh J, Zhang W, Yamamoto H, Peyton M, Girard L, Lockwood WW, Lam WL, Garcia M, Minna JD, Gazdar AF (2009) Alterations in genes of the EGFR signaling pathway and their relationship to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor sensitivity in lung cancer cell lines.

32) Kubo T, Yamamoto H, Lockwood WW, Fujii T, Ouchida M, Soh J, Takigawa J, Kiura K, Shimizu K, Date H, Minna JD, Lam WL, Gazdar AF, Toyooka S (2009) MET gene amplification or EGFR mutation activate MET in lung cancers untreated with EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors.

The statement also makes recommendations for clinical guidance and research priorities, such as optimal choice of EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), management of brain metastasis, role of re-biopsies, and use of circulating free DNA (cfDNA) for molecular studies.

If this is true, then immunocheckpoint blockade combination with EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors is a major path towards improving outcome of patients who have EGFR - mutant non-small-cell lung cancer.»

EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) therapy is approved for EGFR activating mutation positive patients with advanced NSCLC, but the standard for determining mutation status is with DNA derived directly from tumor tissue, which can be limited or not available.

For example, epidermal growth factor (EGFR) mutations may result in sensitivity to drugs that are EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), such as erlotinib or gefitinib, whereas individuals with the EGFR T790M mutation are more resistant to these drugs.

The estimation of EGFR mutation status is essential for the identification of non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) patients who may benefit from treatment with EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), and hence for improving therapeutic efficacy.

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Among patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer without a mutation of a certain gene (EGFR), conventional chemotherapy, compared with treatment using epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors, was associated with improvement in survival without progression of the cancer, but not with overall survival, according to a study in the April 9 issue of JAMA.

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are the preferred treatment option for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have mutations in the EGFR gene.

They found higher levels of JAK1 in resistant tumors, which caused increased expression of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-- a receptor tyrosine kinase that promotes cell proliferation.

Pao was involved in studies of EGFR tyrosine - kinase inhibitors while at MSKCC, where he trained in medical oncology.

Approximately 10 - 15 % of Caucasian and 30 - 35 % of Asian patients with NSCLC have a mutation in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), which can be successfully targeted with EGFR inhibitors called tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI), such as erlotinib, gefitinib and afatinib.

The presence of a germline EGFR T790M mutation also predicts for resistance to standard tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), which adds complexity to treatment.

The researchers, including scientists from pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, report in an advanced online publication in Nature Medicine on May 4, that their findings indicate «an underappreciated genomic heterogeneity» in mechanisms of resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) drugs that target the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) mutation that drive some cases of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

We review progress with the receptor tyrosine kinases (growth factor receptors EGFR, VEGFR, and FGFR) and nonreceptor tyrosine kinases (Bcr - Abl), where advances have been made with cancer therapeutic agents such as Herceptin and Gleevec.

Patients receiving tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) targeting EGFR mutations had a longer overall survival (OS) than those who did not receive TKIs, demonstrating the effectiveness of TKIs for LM therapy.

BETHESDA, MD. — June 28, 2016 — The College of American Pathologists (CAP), the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), and the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) announced today the open comment period for the revised evidence - based guideline, «Molecular Testing Guideline for Selection of Lung Cancer Patients for EGFR and ALK Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors.»

However, as proposed for the T790M mutation in the EGFR, 31 the significant gain - of - function property conferred by the mutations that we describe here may favor their initial presence before drug selection, and rapid selection during tyrosine kinase inhibitor - based therapy.

At that time researchers had only just begun to understand the 58 tyrosine kinases in the human proteome, of which EGFR is one.