Publications by authors named "Xihua Xia"

Background: Immunotherapy plus chemotherapy have been confirmed to be effective in treating advanced or metastatic gastric cancer (GC). Anti- programmed death-1 (PD-1) plus antiangiogenic agents have shown promising activity and tolerant toxicity in subsequent therapy of late-stage gastric cancer. The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy and safety of anti-PD-1 plus anti-angiogenic agents and chemotherapy in advanced or metastatic GC and to explore the potential biomarkers associated with response.

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abnormalities frequently occur and serve as rationale therapeutic targets in cancer. In this study, clinical and next-generation sequencing data from 14,956 patients across more than 20 tumor types were collected. A total of 406 (2.

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Lung cancer is still the leading cause of morbidity and mortality by cancer among men, according to the latest epidemiological data in China. Anaplastic lymphoma kinase () rearrangements act as key oncogenic drivers of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and have been identified in 5-6% of NSCLC. Although ALK inhibitors (ALK-TKIs) were proven to be more effective than chemotherapy in ALK-positive NSCLC patients and the safety profile of these drugs was favorable, novel ALK fusions NSCLC might discontinue or switch treatment because of adverse events (AEs) have rarely previously been reported.

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