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Open AccessPrognostic value of MRI volumetric parameters in non-small cell lung cancer patients after immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy: comparison with response assessment criteria
Accurate response parameters are important for patients with brain metastasis (BM) undergoing clinical trials using immunotherapy, considering poorly defined enhancement and variable responses. This study inve...
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Central nervous systemic efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors and concordance between intra/extracranial response in non-small cell lung cancer patients with brain metastasis
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) markedly improve the clinical outcomes of advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, the intracranial efficacy of ICI is not well elucidated, and previous studies...
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Efficacy of epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors in patients with recurrent non-small cell lung cancer after definitive concurrent chemoradiation or radiotherapy
Whether prior radiotherapy (RT) affects the response of EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) remains elusive.
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Open AccessFirst-in-human study of oleclumab, a potent, selective anti-CD73 monoclonal antibody, alone or in combination with durvalumab in patients with advanced solid tumors
CD73 upregulation in tumors leads to local immunosuppression. This phase I, first-in-human study evaluated oleclumab (MEDI9447), an anti-CD73 human IgG1λ monoclonal antibody, alone or with durvalumab in patien...
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Real-world outcomes of anti-PD1 antibodies in platinum-refractory, PD-L1-positive recurrent and/or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer, and its potential practical predictors: first report from Korean Cancer Study Group LU19-05
Although immune-checkpoint inhibitors have become a new therapeutic option for recurrent/metastatic non-small cell lung cancers (R/M-NSCLC), its clinical benefit in the real-world is still unclear.
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Open AccessExperience from Asian centers in a named-patient-use program for afatinib in patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer who had progressed following prior therapies, including patients with uncommon EGFR mutations
This study evaluated outcomes among patients with advanced/metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated at Asian centers participating in the global named-patient-use (NPU) program for afatinib.
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Clinical outcomes of nivolumab in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer in real-world practice, with an emphasis on hyper-progressive disease
Although immune checkpoint inhibitors have been shown to be effective in many clinical trials, real-world data remain limited. We investigated the outcomes of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients who re...
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Open AccessSafety, Pharmacokinetics, and Clinical Activity of Adavosertib in Combination with Chemotherapy in Asian Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors: Phase Ib Study
The WEE1 inhibitor adavosertib (AZD1775) has been investigated in Western patients.
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Open AccessFirst-line afatinib vs gefitinib for patients with EGFR mutation-positive NSCLC (LUX-Lung 7): impact of afatinib dose adjustment and analysis of mode of initial progression for patients who continued treatment beyond progression
In the randomized phase IIb LUX-Lung 7 trial, afatinib significantly improved progression-free survival (PFS) and time-to-treatment failure vs gefitinib in patients with treatment-naïve epidermal growth factor...
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Open AccessCorrection to: 33rd Annual Meeting & Pre-Conference Programs of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC 2018)
After publication of this supplement [1, 2], it was brought to our attention that due to an error authors were missing in the following abstracts. This has now been included in this correction.
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Phase II evaluation of LY2603618, a first-generation CHK1 inhibitor, in combination with pemetrexed in patients with advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer
Introduction LY2603618 is a selective inhibitor of checkpoint kinase 1 (CHK1) protein kinase, a key regulator of the DNA damage checkpoint, and is predicted to enhance the effects of anti...
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Osimertinib Western and Asian clinical pharmacokinetics in patients and healthy volunteers: implications for formulation, dose, and dosing frequency in pivotal clinical studies
Osimertinib (AZD9291) 80 mg once daily is approved by the US FDA for the treatment of patients with metastatic EGFR T790M-positive NSCLC whose disease has previously progressed on EGFR-TKI therapy. Osimertinib...
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EGFR–TKI is effective regardless of treatment timing in pulmonary adenocarcinoma with EGFR mutation
Although epidermal growth factor receptor–tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR–TKIs) have become key therapeutic agents for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with EGFR mutation, little is known about th...
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A pilot study for the early assessment of the effects of BMS-754807 plus gefitinib in an H292 tumor model by [18F]fluorothymidine-positron emission tomography
BMS-754807 is an inhibitor of insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF-1R) and insulin receptor that also represses aurora kinase. Cancers that express high levels of IGF-1/IGF-1R are sensitive to BMS-754807...
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Phase II study of pemetrexed plus oxaliplatin for platinum-resistant advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer patients
This study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of combination treatment of pemetrexed plus oxaliplatin as second-line treatment in advanced/metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients who have fai...
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Limited role of interim PET/CT in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma treated with R-CHOP
Positron emission tomography (PET) has been found useful in monitoring response to treatment of malignant lymphoma. We investigated the ability of interim PET to monitor response to standard dose R-CHOP chemot...
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Initial cytoreductive treatment with thalidomide plus bolus vincristine/doxorubicin and reduced dexamethasone followed by autologous stem cell transplantation for multiple myeloma
Background High-dose chemotherapy supported by autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) after combined chemotherapy with infusional vincristine/doxorubicin plus dexamethasone is effective in multiple myeloma (...
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Phase II study of erlotinib for chemotherapy-naïve patients with advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer who are ineligible for platinum doublets
This phase II study evaluated efficacy of single-agent erlotinib for chemotherapy-naïve patients with advanced/metastatic NSCLC who were ineligible for platinum doublets.
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Yttrium-90-ibritumomab tiuxetan in combination with intravenous busulfan, cyclophosphamide, and etoposide followed by autologous stem cell transplantation in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Background Radiolabelled immunotherapy agents have an increasingly significant role in autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) by improving the tolerability and increasing the efficacy of the conditioning reg...
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Serum albumin level is a significant prognostic factor reflecting disease severity in symptomatic multiple myeloma
Serum albumin level, in association with serum interleukin-6 level, is a significant prognostic factor in multiple myeloma patients. The aim of this study was to determine any clinical factors associated with ...