Lung cancer in Brazil: epidemiology and treatment challenges

VK De Sá, JC Coelho, VL Capelozzi… - Lung Cancer: Targets …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Lung cancer persists throughout the world as a major cause of death. In 2014, data from the
Brazilian National Cancer Institute (INCA) estimated 16.400 new cases of lung cancer …

Pembrolizumab in advanced NSCLC patients with poor performance status and high PD-L1 expression: OLCSG 1801

S Hosokawa, E Ichihara, D Harada, S Kuyama… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Background The role of pembrolizumab in the treatment of poor performance status (PS)
patients remains unclear. Patients and methods We conducted a phase II trial to investigate …

Potentiation of carboplatin-mediated DNA damage by the Mdm2 modulator Nutlin-3a in a humanized orthotopic breast-to-lung metastatic model

E Tonsing-Carter, BJ Bailey, MR Saadatzadeh… - Molecular cancer …, 2015 - AACR
Triple-negative breast cancers (TNBC) are typically resistant to treatment, and strategies that
build upon frontline therapy are needed. Targeting the murine double minute 2 (Mdm2) …

HER2 Alterations in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Biologico-Clinical Consequences and Interest in Therapeutic Strategies

E Loeffler, J Ancel, V Dalstein, G Deslée, M Polette… - Life, 2023 - mdpi.com
Lung cancer stands as the first cause of death by cancer in the world. Despite the
improvement in patients' outcomes in the past decades through the development of …

[HTML][HTML] A tertiary care cancer center experience with carboplatin and pemetrexed in combination with pembrolizumab in comparison with carboplatin and pemetrexed …

MZ Afzal, K Dragnev, K Shirai - Journal of Thoracic Disease, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Randomized phase II and III studies showed the promising results of the
combination of carboplatin/pemetrexed with pembrolizumab in non-squamous non-small …

Extending survival of stage IV non-small cell lung cancer

S Carnio, S Novello, T Mele, MG Levra… - Seminars in oncology, 2014 - Elsevier
Most of patients with newly diagnosed non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) present with
locally advanced or metastatic disease. In this setting the goal of treatment is to prolong …

The evolving role of pemetrexed disodium for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer

G Rossi, A Alama, C Genova, E Rijavec… - Expert opinion on …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remains one of the big cancer killers,
despite the introduction of a number of approved therapeutics in recent times. Pemetrexed is …

Heterogeneous tumor features and treatment outcome between males and females with lung cancer (LC): Do gender and sex matter?

S Frega, A Dal Maso, A Ferro, L Bonanno… - Critical Reviews in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Lung cancer (LC) is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide, despite a
decreasing incidence rate in recent years, especially in men. Most risk factors for LC could …

Osimertinib for patients with EGFR T790M mutation-positive non–small-cell lung cancer and a poor performance status

K Nakashima, M Kimura, H Akamatsu… - Japanese journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Osimertinib is a third-generation epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)
tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) that is effective against EGFR T790M mutation-positive non …

[HTML][HTML] Prediction of overall survival of non-small cell lung cancer with bone metastasis: an analysis of the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) …

S Shi, H Wang, X Liu, J Xiao - Translational Cancer Research, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The prognosis of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with bone
metastasis is extremely repulsive. The aim of this study was to potentially characterize the …