Sentences with phrase «certain patients with lung cancer»

A K - ras mutation called KRAS 1 is a biomarker found in certain patients with lung cancer.

Vascular endothelial growth factor receptor, also called VEGFR, is a biomarker found in certain patients with lung cancer.

Epidermal growth factor receptor, also called EGFR, is a biomarker found in certain patients with lung cancer.

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They'll also jointly market Pfizer's drug Xalkori, which is approved in more than 75 countries for treating non-small cell lung cancer in patients with a certain genetic mutation.

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers are developing a new predictive tool that could help patients with breast cancer and certain lung cancers decide whether follow - up treatments are likely to help.

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.

«Chemotherapy may be better for certain patients with advanced lung cancer.»

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.

The drugs are already approved for treatment of patients with advanced breast cancer as well as ovarian, pancreatic and certain lung cancers.

«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.