Biomarker-Driven Lung Cancer

Individualized treatment protocols for patients are becoming increasingly important in the management of NSCLC. Consequently, drug research continues to focus on regimens that select therapy according to the molecular characteristics of the tumor.

Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, discusses targeting PD-1 and PD-L1 when treating patients with lung cancer.

Heather Wakelee, MD, discusses maintenance therapy for patients with lung cancer.

Julie R. Brahmer, MD, discusses tumor vaccines for patients with lung cancer.

Harvey I. Pass, MD, discusses blood-based markers in lung cancer.

Silvia Novello, MD, PhD, discusses some of the grey areas in lung cancer care.

Over the past two decades, there has been a shift away from indiscriminate cell-killing by anticancer agents toward the development of more specific drugs that target key aspects of cancer cell biology.

Bonnie Addario, a lung cancer survivor, discusses toxicities involved during lung cancer treatment.

Corey J. Langer, MD, from the Abramson Cancer Center, discusses recent advancements in treating an ALK mutation in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

Giorgio V. Scagliotti, MD, PhD, from the University of Turin, San Luigi Hospital, Orbassano, Italy, discusses afatinib in patients with EGFR-mutated tumors.

D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD, comments on the subgroup analysis of the PROFILE 1007 trial, which looked at crizotinib versus either pemetrexed or docetaxel in NSCLC.

Tony S.K. Mok, BMSc, MD, FRCPC, from the Prince of Wales Hospital Hong Kong, China, discusses how to improve the strategy of developing treatments for lung cancer.

The dependence of cancer cells on the continued activity of specific oncogenes for proliferation and survival can be explored for drug development.

Paul A. Bunn, Jr, MD, from the University of Colorado, discusses afatinib for patients with activating epidermal growth factor receptor mutation.

Carol Aghajanian, MD, from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the difficulties with a gold standard clinical trial endpoint in ovarian cancer.

David P. Carbone, MD, PhD, from the The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, discusses advances in the treatment of lung cancer.

Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, from the Yale Cancer Center, describes immunotherapy as one of the most exciting advances in cancer care.

Laurie Gaspar, MD, from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, discusses the potential of heat shock protein (HSP) inhibitors as radiation sensitizers.

Necitumumab plus chemotherapy as a first-line therapy for patients with metastatic squamous NSCLC demonstrated an improvement in OS vs chemotherapy alone.

Minetta Liu, MD, Breast Cancer Specialist, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, describes the CELLSEARCH® CTC Test, which allows for an assessment of patient prognosis.

David P. Carbone, MD, PhD, from the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the exploration of immunotherapies as treatments for patients with advanced lung cancer.

Alice T. Shaw, MD, PhD, discusses the results of a trial looking at LDK378 for patients with ALK+ crizotinib-resistant non-small cell lung cancer.

Silvia Novello, MD, PhD, from the University of Turin, Italy, gives an overview of immunotherapy and the targeting of the MAGE-A3 protein in lung cancer.

Giorgio V. Scagliotti, MD, PhD, from the University of Turin, discusses recent advances in the molecular genotyping of patients with lung cancer.

Salvage therapy combining the novel Hsp90 inhibitor ganetespib with docetaxel significantly improved OS in some patients with NSCLC in the phase IIb/III GALAXY- 1 trial.

D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD, discusses the potential to utilize crizotinib as a treatment for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer who harbor a ROS1 gene rearrange

Torsten O. Nielsen, MD, PhD, FRCPC, professor, pathology, University of British Columbia, discusses Ki67 in breast cancer.

A preliminary in vitro study has found markers that may predict response to drugs that target KRAS-mutated non-small cell lung cancer.

Two DNA demethylation biomarkers could potentially be used to more accurately determine response to epigenetic drugs for myelodysplastic syndromes.

Antoni Ribas, MD, PhD, the director of the Tumor Immunology Program Area at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses PD-1 and PD-L1 in various cancers.