BACKGROUND Pulmonary squamous cell carcinoma has not benefited from improvements in chemotherapy over the past decade, compared with non-squamous non-small-cell lung cancer. Nowadays, treatment strategies differ between squamous and non-squamous non-small-cell lung cancers. This study aimed to investigate the percentage of patients treated with first-, second-, or third-line chemotherapy and th...

INTRODUCTION : Recent clinical trials incorporating maintenance chemotherapy into the initial treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have highlighted the benefits of exposing patients to second-line therapies. We, therefore, determined the predictors and impact of second-line chemotherapy administration in a contemporary, diverse NSCLC population. METHODS : We performed a re...

Before CDDP was clinically used, combination chemotherapy regimens like BLM + MMC, VCR + MTX-LV + BLM, VCR + MTX-LV + BLM + MMC had been used for recurrent tumors of the head and neck. In a phase II study with CDDP, we experienced two patients with long-term survival (12, 15+) who were treated with CDDP as a second-line chemotherapy for recurrent tumors. Cisplatin was evaluated as a potentially...

OBJECTIVES Chemotherapy as first-/second-line treatment in different epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation lung adenocarcinoma remains controversial. METHODS Consecutive patients were collected between 2009 and 2012. Patients were divided into two groups (1st-line chemotherapy: n = 56 and 2nd-line chemotherapy: n = 55). Their outcomes profiles were analyzed. RESULTS The overall s...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary adenocarcinoma, recently benefited by new cytotoxic and molecularly targeted drugs, has been classified by driver mutations, such as EGFR mutations. The aim of this study was to research the proportions of patients treated with first- to third-line chemotherapy and to find influential factors for the introduction of chemotherapy and survival benefit from chemotherapy. MAT...

Background: Glioma is one of the most common and deadliest primary malignant tumors in the brain. A large part of the gene expression products are non-coding protein RNA. LncRNA THRIL gene is an antisense LncRNA and one of the most important mediators of the NF-KB signaling pathway, that express in many tissues of the body, including the central nerve system (CNS). The aim of the present study ...

We assessed the use and outcomes of first- second-line chemotherapy in patients diagnosed with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (mTNBC). All consecutively mTNBC 2014-2020 ten Dutch hospitals were retrieved from SONABRE registry (NCT-03577197). Last follow-up was collected 2022. The proportion starting a specific line therapy using competing risk method. Median progression-free survival ...

BACKGROUND Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) is responsive to initial chemotherapy but becomes resistant to cytotoxic drugs. The aim of this study was to evaluate what proportion of patients with SCLC had received the first- and further-line chemotherapy and which patients had benefited from chemotherapy. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed medical records of patients with SCLC who had been treat...