This Team is studying vitamin D receptors to determine if it is an effective «super-enhancer» which improves
patient response to chemotherapy.
Not exact matches
When the team compared their results
to previously published clinical and genomic data, they found that their model successfully predicted
patients»
chemotherapy response more than 80 percent of the time.
The researchers discovered that
patients who had certain genetic variations in interleukin genes had a better
response to either surgery or
chemotherapy, resulting in improvements in overall survival, disease - free survival and the amount of time until disease recurred.
Immunotherapy with a live bacterium combined with
chemotherapy demonstrated more than 90 % disease control and 59 %
response rate in
patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM), according
to the results of a phase Ib trial presented today at the European Lung Cancer Conference (ELCC) 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland.1
Findings based on this new technology are likely
to have a profound impact on improving the detection and diagnosis of diseased cells and in evaluating a
patient's
response to chemotherapy.
Patients were categorized into those who had a good
response and those who had a poor
response to chemotherapy, based on a recently approved
chemotherapy response score that correlates with progression - free and overall survival.
If it would be possible
to identify tumours that have an aberrantly stabilised SOX9 protein, the drugs tested in this study could be used
to prevent tumour spread in these
patients and improve their
response to standard
chemotherapy.
In 2006 Potti's team published several papers in high - profile journals reporting that certain gene expression signatures predicted a
patient's
response to chemotherapy.
«The next step is
to test tumors from more human
patients and see how the results compare
to the
response that the
patients have
to chemotherapy,» said Walsh.
«We found very high
response rates
to this treatment combination, which has the added benefit of having a much reduced risk of long - term organ damage compared
to the highly toxic
chemotherapy agents typically used for
patients with relapsed Hodgkin lymphoma,» says Dr. Kelly, who is Program Director of the Pediatric Hematology / Oncology Service Line at the Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo and holds an additional faculty appointment with the University at Buffalo.
In the Phase II clinical trial, Dr. Miller and colleagues in the National Cancer Institute - supported Gynecologic Oncology Group found that in
patients who had not received prior
chemotherapy, the combination cocktail had a 31 percent
response rate for up
to 7 months, and an overall survival of 12 months.
In addition
to helping
patients live longer, more
patients treated with pembrolizumab responded
to treatment and for a longer duration than those treated with
chemotherapy; the objective
response rate — the percentage of
patients whose tumours shrank or disappeared — was almost twice as high with pembrolizumab: 21 % compared
to 11 % on
chemotherapy.
The median duration of
response for
patients who responded
to pembrolizumab has not been reached, while the median duration of
response for
patients who responded
to chemotherapy was only 4.3 months.
In a study reported recently in the journal Scientific Reports, a team centered at Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) identified two molecules that can improve the
response of pancreatic cancer
to a common
chemotherapy drug and also predict the prognosis of pancreatic cancer
patients.
The researchers are now conducting an individual
patient analysis
to correlate
response to chemotherapy with the fall in VEGFR receptor levels in the blood.
Today, The New York Times reports that on Sunday Duke decided
to halt enrollment in three clinical trials in which Potti and Duke's Joseph Nevins were using gene - expression signatures
to predict a
patient's
response to chemotherapy.
Pauling denied that the study was a replication of Cameron's experiment because the
patients used in the Mayo trial had all received
chemotherapy before taking vitamin C so their negative
response to treatment with vitamin C may have had more
to do with their depressed immune system than the inefficacy of vitamin C.
Evidence also suggests that platinum - based
chemotherapies are superior therapies regardless of the
patient's previous
response to treatment.
«Predicting
response to chemotherapy for triple - negative breast cancer
patients: New method.»
In nonmetastatic triple - negative breast cancer (TNBC)
patients, we investigated whether circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) detection can reflect the tumor
response to neoadjuvant
chemotherapy (NCT) and detect minimal residual disease after surgery.
In that randomized, double - blind, placebo - controlled, phase III trial, 561
patients with recurrent epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer who were in complete or partial
response to platinum - based
chemotherapy were treated with either rucaparib 600 mg orally twice daily (372
patients) or
to placebo (189
patients).
That the quality of the tumor's blood vessels could dictate the
patient's
response to chemotherapy could be one reason that two
patients with similar cancers respond differently
to the same therapy.
ZEJULA is indicated for the maintenance treatment of adult
patients with recurrent epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer who are in a complete or partial
response to platinum - based
chemotherapy.
To assess these responses in well defined cohorts of M. tuberculosis - infected or exposed individuals and patients with active TB either or not co-infected with HIV, and follow up longitudinally after anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy, in order to correlate specific responses with protective immunit
To assess these
responses in well defined cohorts of M. tuberculosis - infected or exposed individuals and
patients with active TB either or not co-infected with HIV, and follow up longitudinally after anti-tuberculosis
chemotherapy, in order
to correlate specific responses with protective immunit
to correlate specific
responses with protective immunity.
Investigators led by Edward S. Kim, MD, of MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, initiated the SELECT trial after earlier, phase II studies showed that cetuximab improved
response rates when added
to chemotherapy regimens for
patients with recurrent or progressive NSCLC.
De La Cruz LM, McDonald E, Mick R, Datta J, Nocera NF, Czerniecki BJ: Anti-HER2 TH1
response is superior
to breast MRI in predicting
response to neoadjuvant
chemotherapy in
patients with HER2 positive breast cancer Annals of Surgical Oncology 24 (4): 1057 - 1063,2017.
If it would be possible
to identify tumors that have an aberrantly stabilized SOX9 protein, caused by inactivation of FBW7, the drugs tested in this study could be used
to prevent tumor spread in these
patients and improve their
response to standard
chemotherapy.
Addition of bevacizumab
to standard
chemotherapy in the neoadjuvant setting in
patients with HER2 - negative metastatic breast cancer improves progression - free survival and the proportion of
patients achieving pathological complete
response.
But these epigenetic drugs have shown some success in improving
patients»
response to chemotherapy or immunotherapy, or in overcoming resistance
to those standard treatments.
A biopsy of each
patient's cancer will be screened for 600 genes as well as protein expression
to uncover molecules and pathways that are driving the cancer and
to predict a
patient's
response to chemotherapy or other tailored therapy.
Patients with stage V lymphoma tend
to have a poor
response to chemotherapy and it may be helpful
to stage the
patient to rule out whether or not the
patient is in Stage V.