Pulmonary sarcomatoid carcinoma (PSC) represents a rare and highly aggressive variant of lung cancer, characterized by its recalcitrance to conventional therapeutic modalities and the attendant dismal prognosis it confers. Recent breakthroughs in immunotherapy have presented novel prospects for PSC patients; nevertheless, the utility of neoadjuvant/conversional immunotherapy in the context of PSC remains ambiguous. In this report, we present a middle-aged male presenting with Stage III PSC, notable for its high expression of the programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1), initially deemed as non-resectable for sizeable tumor mass and multiple lymph nodes metastases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study explored the medication rules of Chinese herbal compound prescriptions for the treatment of angina based on the Chinese herbal compound patents in the patent database of the China National Intellectual Property Administration. The data of eligible Chinese herbal compound patents for the treatment of angina were collected from the patent database of the China National Intellectual Property Administration from database inception to November 10, 2022, and subjected to data modeling, analysis of main syndromes, medication frequency analysis, cluster analysis, association rule analysis, and data visualization by using Excel 2021, IBM SPSS Statistics 26.0, IBM SPSS Modeler 18.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The treatment response to neoadjuvant immunochemotherapy varies among patients with potentially resectable non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC) and may have severe immune-related adverse effects. We are currently unable to accurately predict therapeutic response. We aimed to develop a radiomics-based nomogram to predict a major pathological response (MPR) of potentially resectable NSCLC to neoadjuvant immunochemotherapy using pretreatment computed tomography (CT) images and clinical characteristics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Small solitary lung cancer (≤2 cm) with extra-thoracic metastasis and no nodal metastasis or intra-thoracic metastasis is a rare situation in clinic.
Methods: Lung cancer patients with stage T1aN0M0 and T1aN0M1b from 2010 to 2015 were identified from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database. The identified significant parameters were utilized to develop 2 nomogram to predict the extra-thoracic metastasis rates and the overall survival for the group of patients with stage T1aN0M1b.