Breakthrough in targeted therapy for non-small cell lung cancer

Targeted therapy for non-small cell lung cancer.

The overall survival for the treatment of lung cancer patients is less than 15%, despite advances in chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgery, due to the inability to control metastatic disease. Over the past three decades, the genetics of lung cancer has been progressively delineated. Small molecule drugs or monoclonal antibodies have been developed that target and inactivate specific canc...

Targeted therapy in non-small cell lung cancer

ROS1-targeted therapy in non-small cell lung cancer.

LS ROS1 is a receptor tyrosine kinase of the insulin receptor family. Chromosomal rearrangement is the primary mechanism that activates ROS1 in lung cancer and other cancers, and a number of ROS1 rearrangements can occur in nonsquamous lung cancer. These rearrangements lead to aberrant expression of ROS1 and constitutive activation of its tyrosine kinase. Signaling downstream of ROS1 fusions re...

Non-small cell lung cancer: the era of targeted therapy.

In this review, the authors aim to provide an overview of current molecular targeted therapies for NSCLC, to propose an algorithm for clinical application of presently available treatment strategies, and to identify future directions for this important area of research. Historically, choice of treatment algorithm for the management of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has relied heavily upon h...

Non-small-cell lung cancer: targeted therapies

Chemotherapy: is it still enough? The major progresses in understanding cancer biology and the mechanism of oncogenesis have allowed the development of several potential molecular target drugs for cancer treatment, which are components of signaling pathways or metabolic processes contributing to the acquisition of cancer phenotype. A general better tolerability, owing to a milder toxicity profi...