Cancer Caring

Caring Ambassadors Lung Cancer Program

Triplet therapy with afatinib, cetuximab, and bevacizumab induces deep remission in lung cancer cells harboring EGFR T790M in vivo. Kudo K1, Ohashi K2, Makimoto G1, et al. Mol Oncol. 2017 Jun;11(6):670-681. doi: 10.1002/1878-0261.12063. Epub 2017 May 2. Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) have changed the treatment strategy for EGFR-mutant lung cancers; how...

Caring strategies in parents of children with cancer

Background: The increased prevalence of cancer in children influences the family as the main child caregiver. Regarding the spiritual dimension for increasing the life quality of parents and its effect on the management of the conditions induced by the disease, the goal of this study was to determine the strategy of care in parents of cancer children. Materials and Methods: This study was perf...

Caring Ambassadors Lung Cancer Program

Caring Ambassadors Lung Cancer Program

A threshold of systemic MAGE-A gene expression predicting survival in resected non-small cell lung cancer. Mecklenburg I1, Sienel W2, Schmid S3, Passlick B4, Kufer P5. Clin Cancer Res. 2016 Aug 19. pii: clincanres.0557.2016. [Epub ahead of print] PURPOSE: Quantitative measurement of minimal residual disease (MRD) predicting recurrence in individual cancer patients is available only in very few ...

Caring Ambassadors Lung Cancer Program

Serological proteome analysis approach-based identification of ENO1 as a tumor-associated antigen and its autoantibody could enhance the sensitivity of CEA and CYFRA 21-1 in the detection of nonsmall cell lung cancer. Dai L1,2,3, Qu Y3,4, Li J2, Wang X1, Wang K3,5, Wang P3,5, Jiang BH6, Zhang J1,2,3. Oncotarget. 2017 Apr 12. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.17067. [Epub ahead of print] PURPOSE: Lung ca...