Sentences with phrase «other targeted therapies»

The research group will now focuse on comparing the efficacy of this therapy with other targeted therapies in patients with PI3K mutations.

At ELCC, Armida D'Incecco from Istituto Toscano Tumori in Livorno, Italy, and colleagues, suggest that combining immunotherapy drugs with other targeted therapies in lung cancer is likely to be beneficial.

In fact, some oncologists are choosing to prescribe these and other targeted therapies approved to target HER2 - associated breast cancer to patients with HER2 - associated lung cancer.

Following the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of ipilimumab the following year, approvals of other targeted therapies (against BRAF and MEK), and most recently, approvals and extended indications for other checkpoint inhibitors, especially the programmed death 1 (PD - 1) / programmed death ligand 1 (PD - L1) inhibitors, have constituted a revolution characterized by higher response rates and the potential for extended survival.

«We're excited by the prospect that high - dose vitamin C might become a safe treatment for blood diseases caused by TET2 - deficient leukemia stem cells, most likely in combination with other targeted therapies,» says corresponding study author Benjamin G. Neel, MD, PhD, professor in the Department of Medicine and director of the Perlmutter Cancer Center.

Patients with ALK rearrangements do not respond to EGFR - TKIs, but are sensitive to other targeted therapies (such as ceretinib).

Many studies are now underway to learn whether such treatments may also synergistically enhance the effect not only standard cancer therapies but also investigational treatments like therapeutic cancer vaccines, tyrosine kinase inhibitors, anti-angiogenic drugs, and other targeted therapies.