Showing papers by "Jie Wang published in 2009"
TL;DR: Encouraging activities of celecoxib combined with platinum-doublet chemotherapy were demonstrated in treatment-naive patients with advanced NSCLC, with good tolerances.
Abstract: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of celecoxib plus platinum-doublet as first-line chemotherapy in treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and to determine the subgroup benefiting from celecoxib combined therapy by molecular analysis. A total of 44 treatment-naive patients of advanced NSCLC with positive cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) expression confirmed by immunohistochemical (IHC) staining were designed to receive celecoxib plus platinum-doublet chemotherapy (cisplatin plus gemcitabine, novelbine or docetaxol) from February 2005 to May 2007. On 5–7 day before chemotherapy, 400 mg celecoxib was administered twice a day orally until obvious evidence of disease progression or intolerable toxicity was found. Adverse events were recorded according to NCI-CTC criteria. The primary endpoint was overall survival (OS). The secondary endpoints included progression-free survival (PFS), 1-year survival rate, response rate (RR) and safety. Additionally, we detected epithelial growth factor receptor (EGFR) status including EGFR gene amplification by real-time PCR and gene mutations by DHPLC followed by sequencing. The response rate was 45% (20/44), and the disease control rate (DCR) was 59% (26/44). The median progression-free survival time and median survival time were 6 m and 18 m, respectively. The 1-year survival rate was 68%. Chemotherapy cycle numbers and best response were found to be the predictive factors for PFS by COX model analysis (P=0.023 and P=0.000, respectively). No factor was found to affect OS. The most common toxicities included neutropenia and nausea/vomit. EGFR gene amplification was an independent prognostic factor influencing OS (P=0.0002). Patients with EGFR mutations (exon 21) had a tendency of disease progression (P=0.041). Encouraging activities of celecoxib combined with platinum-doublet chemotherapy were demonstrated in treatment-naive patients with advanced NSCLC, with good tolerances. For COX-2 IHC positive patients, positive EGFR amplification and mutation might be related to poor clinical outcomes.
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TL;DR: EGFR gene amplification may be a positive predictive factor in terms of survival for Caucasian patients receiving EGFR-TKI rather than Asia patients, and the prognosis was inferior in Asia patients with EGFR amplification to those without the amplification, if they failed to receive EGFR -TKI.
Abstract: Background and objective Many studies concluded that epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene amplification might be related with the prognosis in non-small cell lung cancer. However, the results were not consistent. To identify whether EGFR gene amplification could affect the prognosis, a meta-analysis was conducted based on the published works. Methods According to inclusion and exclusion criteria, articles were selected from medical electronic databases searching, including PubMed, Cochrane library and CNKI. The qualities of included articles were scored based on the European Lung Cancer Working Party scale, and the hazard ratio (HR) and the 95% confidence interval (CI) were also collected. Meta-analysis was completed using software Review Manager 4.2. Results Forest plot from 12 studies in which 1 221 included patients were all treated with EGFR-TKI showed that the prognosis of patients harboring EGFR gene amplification were superior to negative ones (HR=0.82, 95%CI: 0.68-0.99, P=0.04), and for Caucasian patients who received EGFR-TKI, the survivals were longer in EGFR gene amplification positive cases than those without amplification (HR=0.42, 95%CI: 0.31-0.57, P < 0.001). Meta results from 8 studies in which 658 included patients did not receive EGFR-TKI indicated that the casualty hazard of amplification positive patients was comparable with negative ones. However, for Asia patients who failed to receive EGFR-TKI, the prognosis of patients with EGFR gene amplification were inferior to negative ones (HR=1.88, 95%CI: 1.21-2.93, P=0.005). Conclusion EGFR gene amplification may be a positive predictive factor in terms of survival for Caucasian patients receiving EGFR-TKI rather than Asia patients. However, the prognosis was inferior in Asia patients with EGFR amplification to those without the amplification, if they failed to receive EGFR-TKI.
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TL;DR: The pattern of Δ DNMT3B variants in breast cancer is different from that in NSCLC and Expressions of ΔDNMT3 B2, 3B4 and 3B7 are associated with estrogen receptors status, while ΔDN MT3B7 is associated with progestogen receptor.
Abstract: Objective
Our previous study has showed that ΔDNMT3B is the predominant form of DNMT3B in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In this study, we aimed to explore the expression patterns of the ΔDNMT3B variants in breast cancer and to identify whether the pattern was similar to that in NSCLC or not and its clinical significance.
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TL;DR: Cetuximab combined with chemotherapy was tolerable and the skin rash related with cetUXimab was mild to moderate and may prolong survival of the patients who failed to previous chemotherapy.
Abstract: Objective
To observe the efficacy and safety of cetuximab combined with chemotherapy in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and to investigate the association of status of K-RAS gene mutation and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) genotype with clinical outcome.