Investigating the benefits of molecular profiling of advanced non-small cell lung cancer tumors to guide treatments.
Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
In this study we utilized data on patient responses to guided treatments, and we evaluated their benefit for a non-small cell lung cancer cohort. The recommended therapies used were predicted using tumor molecular profiles that involved a range of biomarkers but primarily used immunohistochemistry markers. A dataset describing 91 lung non-small cell lung cancer patients was retrospectively split into two. The first group's drugs were consistent with a treatment plan whereby all drugs received agreed with their tumor's molecular profile. The second group each received one or more drug that was expected to lack benefit. We found that there was no significant difference in overall survival or mortality between the two groups. Patients whose treatments were predicted to be of benefit survived for an average of 402 days, compared to 382 days for those that did not (P = 0.7934). In the matched treatment group, 48% of patients were deceased by the time monitoring had finished compared to 53% in the unmatched group (P = 0.6094). The immunohistochemistry biomarker for the ERCC1 receptor was found to be a marker that could be used to predict future survival; ERCC1 loss was found to be predictive of poor survival.
Date Issued
2018-02-01
Date Acceptance
2018-01-01
Citation
Oncotarget, 2018, 9 (16), pp.12805-12811
ISSN
1949-2553
Publisher
Impact Journals
Start Page
12805
End Page
12811
Journal / Book Title
Oncotarget
Volume
9
Issue
16
Copyright Statement
© 2018 Alifrangis et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0
(CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source
are credited.
(CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source
are credited.
License URL
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29560111
PII: 24375
Subjects
NSCLC
cancer treatment
lung cancer
non-small cell lung cancer
tumor profiling
Publication Status
Published online
Coverage Spatial
United States