Prostate Cancer Ambassadors

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 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...

Control Ambassadors

I t is not often that the future of control is discussed in the mainstream media, but it occurred in a column in the March 17, 2014 issue of Barron’s Technology Week [1]. The author, impressed with the advances in sensor technology displayed at the 2014 South by Southwest show in Austin, Texas, concludes the article with conjectures about future smart control devices that new sensors will enabl...