Sentences with phrase «regardless of the tumor type»

If such an indel is found in this gene, Ding and her colleagues suggest a patient may benefit from an EFGR inhibitor, such as erlotinib, regardless of the tumor type.

The median time to response was 1.8 months, and responses occurred regardless of tumor type, patient age, or specific TRK fusion characteristics.

Not exact matches

«Our findings suggest a simple strategy to kill metastatic melanoma — regardless of cell type within the tumor — by combining anticancer drugs with diabetes drug,» Herlyn said.

Unlike most other genomic testing programs, Profile tumor analysis is offered to all patients regardless of age, cancer type, or stage of the cancer.

He adds, «This study was actually a pilot project for a much larger effort within the Center for Molecular Therapeutics to map responses against drug combinations across hundreds of cancer cell lines, not just melanoma, and look for novel combinations that will benefit subsets of patients regardless of the particular type of tumor they have.

The FDA also approved another immunotherapy drug, Merck's pembrolizumab, known commercially as Keytruda, for patients with tumors harboring this defect regardless of cancer type.

«Of the patients with BRCA1 truncations in the germline, 90 percent have this BRCA1 truncation enriched in the tumor, regardless of cancer type,» Ding saiOf the patients with BRCA1 truncations in the germline, 90 percent have this BRCA1 truncation enriched in the tumor, regardless of cancer type,» Ding saiof cancer type,» Ding said.

National Cancer Institute and ECOG - ACRIN announce the July 2015 opening of the NCI - MATCH / EAY131 trial, a multi-arm phase II precision medicine study that seeks to determine whether targeted therapies for people whose tumors have specific gene mutations will be effective regardless of cancer type.