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.
Not exact matches
«Our study
results suggest a new drug cocktail that is effective in both human
lung cancer cell lines and fly models,» says Cagan.
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.
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.
«Our laboratory
results are promising and certainly provide encouragement to test this treatment clinically in patients with small
cell lung cancer.»
Their
results will help diseased
cells to be characterised more exactly compared to healthy
cells — which will enable a better understanding of
cancer,
lung diseases and heart diseases to be developed.
«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.
As a
result, the mice had twice as many
cancer cells zipping through their bloodstream and in their
lungs compared with mice not treated with paclitaxel.
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 randomized, phase II trial showed improved progression - free survival in small -
cell lung cancer with maintenance sunitinib vs placebo following standard chemotherapy, according to
results presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago.
Small
cell lung cancer (SCLC) accounts for 14 percent of all
lung cancers and is often rapidly resistant to chemotherapy
resulting in poor clinical outcomes.
Two clinical trials that used antibodies to block PD - 1 and PD - L1, a related molecule that binds to PD - 1,
resulted in significant and long lasting responses against melanoma skin
cancer, renal
cell (kidney)
cancer, and
lung cancer.
The experimental metastasis assay we detail here includes tail - vein injection of
cancer cells into the mouse and determination of the
resulting secondary organ colonization, primarily in the
lung, 10 d post dosing.
The
result was a highly selective drug they named SBI - 0206965, which successfully killed a number of
cancer cell types, including human and mouse
lung cancer cells and human brain
cancer cells, some of which were previously shown to be particularly reliant on cellular recycling.
«The TAILOR study draws out attention to the fact that outcomes are poor in second - line treatment of non — small -
cell lung cancer, with our available treatments resulting in median progression - free survivals of two or three months,» said Benjamin Solomon, MBBS, PhD, of Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melb
cancer, with our available treatments
resulting in median progression - free survivals of two or three months,» said Benjamin Solomon, MBBS, PhD, of Peter MacCallum
Cancer Centre in Melb
Cancer Centre in Melbourne.
Paclitaxel by either 1 - hour or 24 - hour infusion in combination with carboplatin in advanced non-small
cell lung cancer: preliminary
results comparing sequential phase II trials.
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.
Detection of immune
cell checkpoint and functional markers in the
lung TME: The field of
cancer immunotherapy continues to expand rapidly over recent years, with promising clinical
results by immune checkpoint inhibitors and other therapeutic approaches.
Finally, to determine whether LARP7 KD also
results in an increase in breast
cancer metastasis in vivo, the T47D control or shLARP7 - 2
cells were injected intravenously into the nude mice, and
lung metastasis was examined 12 weeks later.
The plaintiff claimed that the defendant misread the 1/15/10 chest x-ray
resulting in a 3 year delay in diagnosis of non-small
cell lung cancer.