It also shows that pomegranate juice could be effective because it actually reduced the growth of
lung cancer tumors in mice over time.
According to new data presented at ASCO, a combination of Opdivo and BMS» other immunotherapy, Yervoy,
shrunk lung cancer tumors in 39 % to 47 % of study participants depending on the amount of Yervoy used.
The approach is already routine for some cancer patients, such as women and men with breast cancer tumors that have high levels of a protein called HER2, or
lung cancer tumors with mutations in the EGFR gene.
Developed by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, the drug had dramatically
reduced lung cancer tumors and prolonged life in the couple hundred patients who had so far used it, with few side effects.
In their previous work, the scientists suspected that C / EBPα may act as a tumor suppressant in normal cells, but the mechanism by which its absence
promoted lung cancer tumors remained unclear.
Resistance to DNA - damaging treatment in non-small
cell lung cancer tumor - initiating cells involves reduced DNA - PK / ATM activation and diminished cell cycle arrest.
In addition to genetic differences
between lung cancer tumors in people who smoke or have smoked versus those who never have, researchers are also finding genetic differences in the people themselves.
Their finding — that the presence of high levels of NF - κB in
lung cancer tumors can act as a suppressor — provides new insight into how tumor pathways regulate the anti-tumor response.
myPlan Lung Cancer measures how fast
a lung cancer tumor is growing.