In this study, human
lung cancer cells with additional copies of the opioid receptor grew more than twice as fast as tumor cells that lacked extra receptors when transplanted into mice.
«When we treated
lung cancer cells with the antifungal drug, we saw the antiviral protection from IFITM3 pretty much disappear,» explained Christopher Chin, co-first author, also from UMMS.
Not exact matches
The medicines, which help unleash the immune system on
cancer cells, were tested in patients
with advanced
lung cancer.
April 16 Merck & Co's immunotherapy Keytruda plus chemotherapy significantly improved overall survival versus chemotherapy alone in newly - diagnosed patients
with advanced non-small
cell lung cancer in a highly - anticipated study that appears to cement the company's lead in the most lucrative oncology market.
With lung cancer, for example, it wants to be able to resolve whether a test shows non-small-
cell lung carcinoma or small
cell lung carcinoma.
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.
Merck already has an FDA approved immunotherapy drug
with KEYTRUDA, a treatment for non-small
cell lung cancer.
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.
In a mid-stage trial, 16 of 37
lung cancer patients given a placebo ahead of standard chemo wound up hospitalized
with severely low white blood
cell counts.
«Our study suggests that epigenetic changes to
cells treated
with cigarette smoke sensitize airway
cells to genetic mutations known to cause
lung cancers,» says Stephen Baylin, M.D., the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for
Cancer Research and professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel
Cancer Center.
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel
Cancer Center say they have preliminary evidence in laboratory - grown, human airway cells that a condensed form of cigarette smoke triggers so - called «epigenetic» changes in the cells consistent with the earliest steps toward lung cancer develo
Cancer Center say they have preliminary evidence in laboratory - grown, human airway
cells that a condensed form of cigarette smoke triggers so - called «epigenetic» changes in the
cells consistent
with the earliest steps toward
lung cancer develo
cancer development.
Approximately one year after successful treatment
with cytotoxic chemotherapy and radiotherapy, patients
with advanced Small
Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC), which primarily affects heavy smokers, generally relapse
with recurrence of tumours that are resistant to further chemotherapy.
Moss has shown that animals lacking these receptors do not develop
lung cancer when injected
with cancer cells.
Activation of beta - arrestin - 1 causes
lung cancer cells to produce proteins associated
with increased motility and invasion.
In the
Cell study, Dr. Massagué,
with Fellow Manuel Valiente, PhD, and other team members, found that in mouse models of breast and
lung cancer — two tumor types that often spread to the brain — many
cancer cells that enter the brain are killed by astrocytes.
In a head - to - head clinical trial comparing standard chemotherapy
with the immunotherapy drug nivolumab, researchers found that people
with squamous - non-small
cell lung cancer who received nivolumab lived, on average, 3.2 months longer than those receiving chemotherapy.
The abstract title was: Attempt to Validate Drug Repositioning for Metastatic Small
Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) Therapy Identifies Statins Associated
with Survival Benefit.?
Patients
with metastatic non-small
cell lung cancer will always progress after chemotherapy, so most patients go on to be treated
with immunotherapy, a type of therapy that uses the body's immune system to fight
cancer.
A team led by Lu You, an oncologist at Sichuan University's West China Hospital in Chengdu, plans to start testing such
cells in people
with lung cancer next month.
For the new trial, hospitals enrolled patients
with advanced, squamous non-small
cell lung cancer whose disease had progressed despite initial chemotherapy.
There is currently a PD - 1 antibody on the market that blocks T
cell exhaustion in patients
with solid tumors, like
lung cancer and melanoma.
The drug erlotinib is prescribed to between 10 — 30 per cent of patients
with non-small
cell lung cancer, which accounts for 85 per cent of all
lung cancer cases.
Although some
cancers — particularly those that are rife
with mutations like
lung cancer or melanoma — create more tangible targets on the surface of
cells for the immune system to recognize and attack, other malignancies such as prostate and pancreatic
cancers have proved more intransigent.
Compared to a control (left), epalrestat treatment (right) reduces the number of metastatic tumors (arrowheads) in the
lungs of mice injected
with human basal - like breast
cancer cells.
Researchers used molecular scissors called CRISPR / Cas9 to engineer immune
cells that were then injected into a patient
with lung cancer, Nature reports.
«Although some non-small
cell lung cancer patients have increased benefit of targeted therapy or immunotherapy instead of chemotherapy, for some groups of patients
with NSNSCLC, chemotherapy has been the standard treatment for more than 30 years,» Gandhi notes.
However, the Moffitt scientists suggest that it may be possible to target the TGF - β - miR183 - DAP12 pathway in patients
with lung cancer to activate the immune system and kill
cancer cells.
Using both fruit fly and human
lung cancer cell lines, researchers targeted two of the most common genetic mutations associated
with NSCLC — Ras and PTEN (P13K).
A drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for melanoma in combination
with a common cholesterol - lowering drug may show promise in controlling
cancer growth in patients
with non-small
cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to new research from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Among patients
with non-small
cell lung cancer (NSCLC) fueled by ALK gene alterations who were being treated
with crizotinib (Xalkori), a decrease in the number of circulating tumor
cells (CTCs) harboring increased copies of the ALK gene over the first two months of treatment was associated
with increased progression - free survival.
«FDG PET shows tumor DNA levels in blood are linked to NSCLC aggressiveness: Insights derived from FDG PET could improve treatment selection for patients
with advanced non-small
cell lung cancer.»
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.
Italian researches have demonstrated a better way of determining the aggressiveness of tumors in patients
with advanced non-small
cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
«In this study we found that NF - κB activity is strongly associated
with immune system T -
cell infiltration in
lung cancer,» explained study co-author Dung - Tsa Chen, Ph.D., member of the Biostatistics Department at Moffitt.
Combining radiation therapy
with chemotherapy for patients
with limited metastatic non-small
cell lung cancer (NSCLC) may curb disease progression dramatically when compared to NSCLC patients who only receive chemotherapy, according to a new randomized phase II clinical trial reported today at the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).
After a median follow - up of 11 months, 11 of the 13 patients who responded remain on the study, including one patient who had non-small
cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
with a ROS1 gene fusion who has had a complete response that has been maintained for more than two years.
Multiplexed genetic screening for epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene rearrangements and subsequent biomarker - guided treatment is cost - effective compared
with standard chemotherapy treatment without any molecular testing in the metastatic non-small
cell lung cancer (NSCLC) setting in the United States.
Some patients
with non-small
cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have changes in the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene, which can drive the development of their
cancer.
Nana - Sinkam and his colleagues examined
lung - tumor samples from 81 patients
with stage - 1 nonsmall -
cell lung cancer and tumor -
cell lines.
The study, recently published in the journal Oncotarget, set out to determine whether neratinib could be utilized, alone or in combination
with other agents, to kill non-small
cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
cells that had become resistant to the drug afatinib.
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.
Around 1,600 people are diagnosed
with non-small
cell lung cancer in Greater Manchester every year and a proportion of these patients will have the ALK - positive type.
Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations found in the circulating free tumor DNA (ctDNA) from the plasma of advanced non-small
cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients correlates well
with the EGFR mutations from patient - matched tumor tissue DNA.
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.
«If you look at a set of
lung cancer patients, like we did in the paper, who develop brain metastases, they all have those two genes in their primary lung cancer,» said Sheila Singh, the study's supervisor, associate professor at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, scientist with the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University and neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's Hos
cancer patients, like we did in the paper, who develop brain metastases, they all have those two genes in their primary
lung cancer,» said Sheila Singh, the study's supervisor, associate professor at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, scientist with the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University and neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's Hos
cancer,» said Sheila Singh, the study's supervisor, associate professor at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, scientist
with the Stem
Cell and
Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University and neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's Hos
Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University and neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's Hospital.
In this study, researchers compared the effectiveness of the immunotherapy drug nivolumab (pronounced «nye VOL ue mab,» marketed at Opdivo),
with standard - of - care chemotherapy in 541 patients
with previously untreated or recurrent non-small
cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that expressed PDL - 1 antibodies.
There was less evidence of a connection in people
with lung cancer, gastric
cancer, prostate
cancer, leukemia, melanoma or Merkel
cell carcinoma, but the available data were positive.
Partnering
with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allowed Doebele and colleagues to access clinical trial data describing initial tumor response, PFS and OS for 305 patients
with stage IIIb or IV non-small
cell lung cancer on trials of ALK inhibitors and 355 similar patients on trials of immunotherapies directed at PD - 1.
«Patients
with non-small
cell lung cancer (NSCLC) should receive front line therapy
with the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) inhibitor crizotinib,» said lead author Professor Giorgio Scagliotti, head of the Department of Oncology, University of Turin, Italy.
When William Pao was a medical oncology fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering
Cancer Center (MSKCC) during the early 2000s, treating patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) was rote: Every patient received the same chemotherapy re
Cancer Center (MSKCC) during the early 2000s, treating patients
with metastatic non-small
cell lung cancer (NSCLC) was rote: Every patient received the same chemotherapy re
cancer (NSCLC) was rote: Every patient received the same chemotherapy regimen.