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ERCC1, RRM1 and BRCA1 mRNA expression levels and clinical outcome of advanced non-small cell lung cancer
This study was to investigate whether the expressions of DNA repair genes ERCC1 (excision repair cross complementing 1), RRM1 (ribonucleotide reductase subunit M1) and BRCA1 (breast cancer 1) affected clinical...
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Association of XRCC3 and XPD751 SNP with efficacy of platinum-based chemotherapy in advanced NSCLC patients
The aim of this study was to investigate whether X-ray repair cross-complementing group 3 (XRCC3) and xeroderma pigmentosum group D (XPD) single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) affects the outcome of platinum-ba...
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Analysis of Driver Mutations in Female Non-Smoker Asian Patients with Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma
Previous studies have revealed that EGFR mutation and/or EML4–ALK gene fusion rate was higher in the non-smoker Asian females with pulmonary adenocarcinoma. The aim of this study is to determine the distributi...
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A Case Report of Chemo-sensitive Intimal Pulmonary Artery Sarcoma
The incidence rate of pulmonary artery sarcoma is very low, but its prognosis is extremely poor. In this case report, after various initial diagnoses at the early stage, pulmonary artery sarcoma was confirmed ...
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Genomic polymorphisms of SLC29A3 associated with overall survival in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer treated with gemcitabine
Several polymorphisms in the genes involved in drug metabolism or elimination are known to be associated with pharmacokinetic or pharmacodynamic variability, but their correlations with overall survival (OS) ...
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Open AccessEpidemiological study of HER-2 mutations among EGFR wild-type lung adenocarcinoma patients in China
Human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER)-2 is a driver gene in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The present study evaluated the mutation rate of HER-2 within the wild-type epidermal growth factor receptor ...
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Open AccessBisphosphonates enhance antitumor effect of EGFR-TKIs in patients with advanced EGFR mutant NSCLC and bone metastases
Whether bisphosphonates could enhance the effect of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with EGFR mutation and bone metastas...
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Open AccessComprehensive evaluation of NT5E/CD73 expression and its prognostic significance in distinct types of cancers
CD73 is one of the critical component in the formation of immunosuppressive microenvironment in cancers. We aimed to provide an overview of the current status of CD73 expression and its relationship with clini...
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Open AccessOutcomes of Pemetrexed-based chemotherapies in HER2-mutant lung cancers
HER2 mutation has been found to be an oncogenic driver gene in non-small cell lung cancers(NSCLC) and HER2-directed therapies have shown promising results in this unique population, while little is known about it...
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Pretreatment neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio is associated with outcome of advanced-stage cancer patients treated with immunotherapy: a meta-analysis
To investigate the association between pretreatment blood neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and clinical outcomes for advanced-stage cancer patients treated with immunotherapy.
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Open AccessNovel antibodies against GPIbα inhibit pulmonary metastasis by affecting vWF-GPIbα interaction
Platelet glycoprotein Ibα (GPIbα) extracellular domain, which is part of the receptor complex GPIb-IX-V, plays an important role in tumor metastasis. However, the mechanism through which GPIbα participates in ...
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Open AccessGenomic landscape and its correlations with tumor mutational burden, PD-L1 expression, and immune cells infiltration in Chinese lung squamous cell carcinoma
To depict the genomic landscape of Chinese early-stage lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) and investigate its correlation with tumor mutation burden (TMB), PD-L1 expression, and immune infiltrates.
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Open AccessTumor neoantigens: from basic research to clinical applications
Tumor neoantigen is the truly foreign protein and entirely absent from normal human organs/tissues. It could be specifically recognized by neoantigen-specific T cell receptors (TCRs) in the context of major hi...
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Open AccessMulti-cancer blood testing combined with PET-CT: road for hope to screen for cancer and guide intervention
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Open AccessCharacterization of evolution trajectory and immune profiling of brain metastasis in lung adenocarcinoma
Characterizing the evolutionary trajectory and immune profiling of brain metastasis (BM) may provide insights in the development of novel therapeutic strategies. Here, we performed whole-exome sequencing and m...
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Open AccessSingle-cell profiling of tumor heterogeneity and the microenvironment in advanced non-small cell lung cancer
Lung cancer is a highly heterogeneous disease. Cancer cells and cells within the tumor microenvironment together determine disease progression, as well as response to or escape from treatment. To map the cell ...
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Open AccessToripalimab plus chemotherapy as second-line treatment in previously EGFR-TKI treated patients with EGFR-mutant-advanced NSCLC: a multicenter phase-II trial
This multicenter phase-II trial aimed to investigate the efficacy, safety, and predictive biomarkers of toripalimab plus chemotherapy as second-line treatment in patients with EGFR-mutant-advanced NSCLC. Patients...
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ICI plus chemotherapy prolonged survival over ICI alone in patients with previously treated advanced NSCLC
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) monotherapy was standard of care in second-line treatment of patients with advance non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). This study aims to investigate the efficacy of ICI plus...
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Open AccessOn-treatment blood TMB as predictors for camrelizumab plus chemotherapy in advanced lung squamous cell carcinoma: biomarker analysis of a phase III trial
Camrelizumab plus chemotherapy significantly prolonged progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) compared to chemotherapy alone as first-line treatment in advanced lung squamous cell carcinoma ...
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Open AccessDesigning highly multiplex PCR primer sets with Simulated Annealing Design using Dimer Likelihood Estimation (SADDLE)
One major challenge in the design of highly multiplexed PCR primer sets is the large number of potential primer dimer species that grows quadratically with the number of primers to be designed. Simultaneously,...