Background: With the increasing use of novel targeted drugs and immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) for lung cancer (LC), the life expectancy of patients with LC has notably increased. In China, many drugs with the same mechanism of action have been approved by the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) through phase III randomized controlled trials (RCTs). However, differences occur in these drugs' efficacy and adverse effects, all of which have been compared with standard treatments, and data from head-to-head studies are lacking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The efficacy of immunotherapy for brain metastases from small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is relatively low, and the tumor microenvironment of SCLC brain metastases is still unknown. Therefore, we investigated the distribution of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) and the expression of programmed cell death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) in patients with brain metastases from SCLC to explore the tumor microenvironment of SCLC brain metastases.
Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed on 12 surgical specimens of brain metastases from patients with SCLC treated in the Department of Neurosurgery of The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University from June 2017 to June 2022.
Background: Lorlatinib is a new generation ALK kinase inhibitor. We describe a 52-year-old patient with ALK-positive advanced lung adenocarcinoma who achieved remission after multi-line therapy combined with paraneoplastic leukemoid reaction treated with Lorlatinib.
Case Report: A 52-year-old male patient was diagnosed with stage IV right lung adenocarcinoma, ALK: (+), previously received oral Crizotinib and Alectinib.
Background: The effectiveness of combining anti-programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) and chemotherapy has been evaluated as superior to that of chemotherapy alone in the patients with advanced epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitor (EGFR-TKI)-resistant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In this study the efficacy and safety of anti-PD-1 combination therapy were evaluated retrospectively in patients who experienced EGFR-TKI-resistant with advanced lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), with the goal of providing helpful guidance for clinical application.
Methods: The clinical results of patients with incurable LUAD who received anti-PD-1 antibody combined with or without anti-angiogenic or chemotherapy after EGFR-TKI therapy failure were collected.
Background: Epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitor (EGFR-TKI) is an important treatment for lung adenocarcinoma patients with gene mutations. The purpose of this study was to review the efficacy of first-generation EGFR-TKIs and the incidence of T790M after first-generation TKI resistance in stage IV lung adenocarcinoma patients with positive gene mutation expression associated with EGFR mutant protein.
Methods: Tumor tissues were collected from stage IV lung adenocarcinoma patients with gene mutation who received first-generation EGFR-TKI targeted therapy.