Discrimination between Complete versus Non-Complete Pathologic Response to Neoadjuvant Therapy Using Ultrasensitive Mutation Analysis: A Proof-of-Concept Study in -Driven Breast Cancer Patients.

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) for breast cancer (BC) often results in pathologic complete response (pCR), i.e., the complete elimination of visible cancer cells.

Monitoring of the presence of EGFR-mutated DNA during EGFR-targeted therapy may assist in the prediction of treatment outcome.

The aim of our trial was to evaluate the prognostic significance of qualitative ctDNA analysis on different stages of EGFR mutated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treatment. We included 99 patients amendable for the first line treatment with either gefitinib/erlotinib (n = 87), afatinib (n = 10) or osimertinib (n = 2). Sequential qualitative analysis of ctDNA with cobas® EGFR Mutation Test v2 were performed before first dose, after 2 and 4 months of treatment, and on progression.

[Therapeutic activity of gemcitabine in intracranial tumors].

Gemcitabine is known to exert a therapeutic effect on brain tumors despite the limited permeability of the blood-brain barrier (BBB). In our experimental research single intraperitoneal (i.p.

High efficacy of cisplatin neoadjuvant therapy in a prospective series of patients carrying BRCA1 germ-line mutation.

Development of malignancies in BRCA1 germ-line mutation carriers usually involves somatic inactivation of the remaining BRCA1 allele. This feature leads to a tumor-specific deficiency of double-strand DNA break repair and underlies pronounced sensitivity of BRCA1-driven cancers to cisplatin. BRCA1-specific activity of cisplatin has been repeatedly demonstrated in cell culture and animal experiments; however, corresponding clinical evidence remains limited.

[Investigation of hepatoprotector Metrop GP influence on tumor growth or antitumor action of doxorubicin].

An experimental model of solid tumor of Ehrlich failed to reveal any influence of the hepatoprotector Metrop GP on tumor growth or affect antitumor action of doxorubicin.