Epidemiology of lung cancer

KC Thandra, A Barsouk, K Saginala, JS Aluru… - Contemporary …, 2021 - termedia.pl
Lung cancer is the leading cause of global cancer incidence and mortality, accounting for an
estimated 2 million diagnoses and 1.8 million deaths. Neoplasms of the lungs are the …

Unravelling the biology of SCLC: implications for therapy

JK Sabari, BH Lok, JH Laird, JT Poirier… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2017 - nature.com
Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an aggressive malignancy associated with a poor
prognosis. First-line treatment has remained unchanged for decades, and a paucity of …

[HTML][HTML] High tumor mutation burden fails to predict immune checkpoint blockade response across all cancer types

DJ McGrail, PG Pilié, NU Rashid, L Voorwerk… - Annals of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background High tumor mutation burden (TMB-H) has been proposed as a predictive
biomarker for response to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB), largely due to the potential for …

Health effects associated with smoking: a Burden of Proof study

X Dai, GF Gil, MB Reitsma, NS Ahmad, JA Anderson… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
As a leading behavioral risk factor for numerous health outcomes, smoking is a major
ongoing public health challenge. Although evidence on the health effects of smoking has …

RNA sequence analysis reveals macroscopic somatic clonal expansion across normal tissues

K Yizhak, F Aguet, J Kim, JM Hess, K Kübler, J Grimsby… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Cancer genome studies have contributed to the analysis and discovery of
somatic mutations that drive cancer growth. However, studying the genetic makeup of a …

Trends in the incidence, treatment, and survival of patients with lung cancer in the last four decades

T Lu, X Yang, Y Huang, M Zhao, M Li, K Ma… - Cancer management …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose This study used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) data to
investigate the changes in incidence, treatment, and survival of lung cancer from 1973 to …

Mutational signatures associated with tobacco smoking in human cancer

LB Alexandrov, YS Ju, K Haase, P Van Loo… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Tobacco smoking increases the risk of at least 17 classes of human cancer. We analyzed
somatic mutations and DNA methylation in 5243 cancers of types for which tobacco smoking …

Pembrolizumab in patients with extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer: results from the phase Ib KEYNOTE-028 study

PA Ott, E Elez, S Hiret, DW Kim, A Morosky… - Journal of Clinical …, 2017 - ascopubs.org
Purpose The safety and efficacy of pembrolizumab, a humanized monoclonal antibody
against programmed death 1 (PD-1), were assessed in patients with programmed death …

Interaction between the microbiome and TP53 in human lung cancer

KL Greathouse, JR White, AJ Vargas, VV Bliskovsky… - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Background Lung cancer is the leading cancer diagnosis worldwide and the number one
cause of cancer deaths. Exposure to cigarette smoke, the primary risk factor in lung cancer …

The comparison between adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma in lung cancer patients

BY Wang, JY Huang, HC Chen, CH Lin, SH Lin… - Journal of cancer …, 2020 - Springer
Background There are several studies comparing the difference between adenocarcinoma
(AC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SqCC) of lung cancer. However, seldom studies …