Dr. Glen Weiss, M.D., M.B.A., is the first author of the study abstract: Phase Ib / II Study of Pembrolizumab plus Chemotherapy in Advanced Cancer:
Results of lung cancer patients receiving (at least) 1 prior line of therapy.
Not exact matches
The biotech specialist said that its updated phase 2 data in a study
of its poziotinib candidate treatment for non-small cell
lung cancer resulted in a preliminary confirmed objective response rate and potential progression - free survival benefit in
patients with the EGFR Exon 20 Mutant form
of the disease.
If hypofractionated radiation with curative intent can reduce the treatment time for
lung cancer patients by half with no greater toxicity, and with equivalent — if not better — tumor control and survival outcomes, this research could
result in a change in the paradigm
of how a large subset
of locally advanced NSCLC
patients are treated.»
Findings were presented at the WCLC are based on the updated
results of 12
lung cancer patients enrolled in the clinical trial with pembro and irinotecan or gemcitabine with or without vinorelbine or docetaxel.
Immunotherapy with a live bacterium combined with chemotherapy demonstrated more than 90 % disease control and 59 % response rate in
patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM), according to the
results of a phase Ib trial presented today at the European
Lung Cancer Conference (ELCC) 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland.1
Phase I / II clinical trial
results reported at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2015 show promising
results for investigational drug brigatinib against ALK + non-small cell
lung cancer (NSCLC), with 58
of 78 ALK +
patients responding to treatment, including 50
of 70
patients who had progressed after previous treatment with crizotinib, the first licensed ALK inhibitor.
Many
lung cancer trials have traditionally excluded
patients with brain metastases at baseline, expecting that the presence
of metastases would create negative
results that could in turn create the appearance
of drug failure.
Pembrolizumab is set to become a new option for first line treatment
of patients with advanced
lung cancer and high PD - L1 expression, according to the
results of the phase III KEYNOTE - 024 trial presented at the ESMO 2016 Congress in Copenhagen and published in the New England Journal
of Medicine.
Trinh and his colleagues used Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End
Results Program (SEER) data to look at more than 2.5 million Asian American
patients who were diagnosed with
lung, breast, prostate or colorectal
cancer (the three leading causes
of cancer - related mortality within each gender) between 1991 and 2007.
«First - line immunotherapy treatment can improve survival for subset
of lung cancer patients:
Results of phase III global clinical trial show that 75 percent
of stage IV
lung cancer patients with both complex tumor mutations and PDL - 1 positive status respond to nivolumab.»
Ceritinib provides longer progression - free survival than chemotherapy in crizotinib - pre-treated
patients with non-small-cell
lung cancer harbouring an ALK rearrangement, according to
results of the phase III ASCEND - 5 study presented at the ESMO 2016 Congress in Copenhagen.
As a
result, this group succeeded in isolating ORs which respond to three types
of volatile organic compounds (2 - pentanone, pyridine, 2 - butanone) respectively in urine samples from
lung cancer patients.
The
results of these animal trials may eventually help
patients with colon, rectum, stomach, breast, or
lung cancer.
A new drug that targets not only common
cancer - causing genetic mutations in
patients with non-small cell
lung cancer (NSCLC), but also a form
of the mutation that causes resistance to treatment, has shown promising
results in
patients in a phase I / II clinical trial.
Results of an initial study
of tumors from
patients with
lung cancer or head and neck
cancer suggest that the widespread acquired resistance to immunotherapy drugs known as checkpoint inhibitors may be due to the elimination
of certain genetic mutations needed to enable the immune system to recognize and attack malignant cells.
Although the
patients» exposure to cigarettes and other hydrocarbon sources was not integrated with the
results, the idea
of a marker for
lung cancer held up.
The
results published in the October issue
of the Journal
of Thoracic Oncology, the official journal for the International Association for the Study
of Lung Cancer, show that TNI levels were undetectable in all
patients before RT and increased slightly in 2
patients following RT but these returned to undetectable levels at the first follow - up.
Overall,
results also showed that it took a month and a half to more than 6 months for many
patients to undergo surgery after an initial x-ray displayed signs
of possible
lung cancer.
With the advancement
of surgical and radiation therapy strategies for stage 1 non-small-cell
lung cancer (NSCLC), more
patients are being treated,
resulting in higher survival rates, according to a study published online today in The Annals
of Thoracic Surgery.
«Our
results suggest that administering p38 inhibitors to certain
patients with advanced stages
of colon
cancer or with established metastases could be counterproductive and may enhance cell acquisition
of lung colonization potential,» says Gomis.
An anti-PD-1 antibody developed by Bristol - Myers Squibb generates excitement with
results from a phase I trial showing that, among 236
patients with various types
of cancer, the treatment shrank tumors in 28 percent
of melanoma
patients, 30 percent
of patients with kidney
cancer, and 18 percent
of patients with advanced non-small cell
lung cancer.
A 2012 paper co-authored by Ingber, for example, reported
results from a study
of a
lung - on - a-chip model
of pulmonary edema, which can affect
cancer patients taking the drug interleukin - 2.
Now, on Nov. 5, a news story likened those findings to the
results of a large trial by the National
Cancer Institute, which showed that CT scans reduced mortality rates among the highest - risk lung cancer patients by 20 pe
Cancer Institute, which showed that CT scans reduced mortality rates among the highest - risk
lung cancer patients by 20 pe
cancer patients by 20 percent.
These
results should support the idea that IMRT is the radiation therapy
of choice for
lung cancer patients as well.
If clinical trials
of anti-PD-1 continue to show promising
results,
cancer patients may soon have access to another powerful immunotherapy for the treatment
of numerous
cancers, including melanoma, non-small cell
lung cancer, and other solid tumors.
Dyadic psychosocial intervention for advanced
lung cancer patients and their family caregivers:
Results of a randomized pilot trial