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Enrollment closed, Enrollment change: NeoMET Study in Neoadjuvant Treatment of Breast Cancer (clinicaltrials.gov) - Jul 8, 2020 P2, N=92, Active, not recruiting, Trial completion date: Apr 2021 --> Jun 2022 | Trial primary completion date: Apr 2020 --> Jun 2021 Recruiting --> Active, not recruiting | N=200 --> 92
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Clinical, Journal: The Anti-Tumor Effect of Nab-Paclitaxel Proven by Patient-Derived Organoids. (Pubmed Central) - Jul 3, 2020 Nab-paclitaxel showed strong anti-tumor activity and had the potential to become front-line drug for treating GC patients. Gastric cancer organoid may be a good tool to predict in vivo response to drugs.
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Clinical, Review, Journal: Incidence of interstitial pneumonitis in breast cancer patients treated with pegylated liposomal doxorubicin. (Pubmed Central) - Jul 2, 2020 Gastric cancer organoid may be a good tool to predict in vivo response to drugs. Clinicians should pay attention to CIIP in breast cancer patients who receive more than three cycles of chemotherapy regimens containing pegylated liposomal doxorubicin plus cyclophosphamide with or without docetaxel.
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Clinical, Journal: Gp130 degradation induced by epirubicin contributes to chemotherapy efficacy. (Pubmed Central) - Jul 2, 2020 We also show that epirubicin-resistant tumor cells express higher level of gp130. Altogether, our results indicate that degradation of gp130 and subsequent reduction of gp130-Stat3 signaling contributes to epirubicin-induced tumor cell death.
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Clinical, Journal, Real-World Evidence: Real-World Outcomes of Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Node-Negative and Node-Positive HER2-Positive Breast Cancer. (Pubmed Central) - Jun 26, 2020 Survival rates of patients with HER2+ breast cancer in our study are comparable to those seen in clinical trials. Our findings support chemotherapy de-escalation in patients with node-negative disease and validate the efficacy of FEC-DH in those with node-positive disease.
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Journal: Drug utilization and expenditure of anticancer drugs for breast cancer. (Pubmed Central) - Jun 23, 2020 The most commonly prescribed medication was fluorouracil, epirubicin, and cyclophosphamide (FEC) regimen, which was used in 81% of patients...Docetaxel was the most commonly used drug in neoadjuvant setting, whereas letrozole and trastuzumab were prescribed more frequently in hormonal and targeted therapies, respectively...Our results indicated that adherence to a clinical guideline and recommended medication regimens improved patient outcomes. Our finding indicate how analyzing drug utilization pattern could benefit institutions in managing inventory and efficiently using health care resources.
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Journal: Chloroquine increases the anti-cancer activity of epirubicin in A549 lung cancer cells. (Pubmed Central) - Jun 23, 2020 The flow cytometry results demonstrated that the apoptosis rate was highest in the EPI + CQ group. In conclusion, the autophagy inhibitor CQ increased the sensitivity of A549 cells to EPI, and the underlying mechanism of action may be associated with the activation of apoptosis.
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Journal: Cognitive impairment following chemotherapy for breast cancer: The impact of practice effect on results. (Pubmed Central) - Jun 20, 2020 In conclusion, the autophagy inhibitor CQ increased the sensitivity of A549 cells to EPI, and the underlying mechanism of action may be associated with the activation of apoptosis. Accounting for PE is recommended to identify true change on cognition through treatment with chemotherapy for breast cancer.
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Journal: NAB-Paclitaxel Improves Disease-Free Survival in Early Breast Cancer: GBG 69-GeparSepto. (Pubmed Central) - Jun 12, 2020 The significantly higher pathologic complete response rate with NAB-paclitaxel translated into a significantly improved iDFS in patients with early BC as compared with sb-paclitaxel. PSN improved much faster under NAB-paclitaxel 125 mg/m compared with NAB-paclitaxel 150 mg/m.
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These ARB hits included antimetabolites (zidovudine, floxuridine, didanosine, gemcitabine), anthracyclines (daunorubicin, mitoxantrone, epirubicin) and psychoactive drugs (gabapentin, fluspirilene, oxethazaine). This suggests that there are few approved drugs which could be directly repositioned as adjunct-antibacterials and these will need robust testing to validate efficacy.
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Clinical, Retrospective data, Journal: Mediastinal T lymphoblastic lymphoma/leukemia: clinicopathological and prognostic analyses of 61 cases (Pubmed Central) - Jun 7, 2020 The histological morphology is often difficult to interpret, while the addition of clinical features and immunohistochemistry may help. The combination of CKpan, TDT, CD99, CD7, CD3, PAX5, CD34, CD10, and Ki-67 immunohistochemicl studies may assist in diagnosis of the most cases.
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Biomarker, Clinical, Journal, Tumor microenvironment: Immune phenotype of tumor microenvironment predicts response to bevacizumab in neoadjuvant treatment of ER positive breast cancer. (Pubmed Central) - Jun 7, 2020 Improved treatment response was associated with higher proliferation rate and an immune phenotype characterized by high presence of classically activated M1 macrophages, activated NK cells and memory activated CD4 T-cells. Treatment with bevacizumab increased the number of adverse events, including hemorrhage, hypertension, infection and febrile neutropenia, but despite this, the ECOG status was not affected.
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Journal: Malignant adenomyoepithelioma of the breast. (Pubmed Central) - Jun 1, 2020 Malignant potency is related to the tumor size, tumor appearance, and mitoses, even if only a few. Given that ductal spread is one of the morphological features of malignant AME, it is of paramount importance to assess the surgical margins.
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Clinical, Journal, Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocyte, PD(L)-1 Biomarker, IO Biomarker: Relevance of tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes, PD-1 and PD-L1 in patients with high-risk, nodal-metastasised breast cancer of the German Adjuvant Intergroup Node-positive study. (Pubmed Central) - May 31, 2020 P3 TILs, PD-1 and PD-L1 are linked to each other indicating tumour immunogenicity. Moreover, PD-1-positive immune cells have a positive prognostic impact in TNBC.
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Journal: Cancer During Pregnancy: The Role of Vascular Toxicity in Chemotherapy-Induced Placental Toxicity. (Pubmed Central) - May 24, 2020 The immunohistochemistry of the EPI-treated human placentae showed enhanced proliferation and apoptosis as compared with matched chemo-naïve placentae, as well as reduced neovascularization (CD34). Our findings suggest that anthracycline-induced vascular insult promotes placental toxicity, and could point to potential agents designated to offset the damage and to reduce gestational complications in pregnant cancer patients.
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Enrollment change, Trial completion date, Trial termination, Trial primary completion date, Metastases: Pyrotinib or Trastuzumab Plus Nab-paclitaxel as Neoadjuvant Therapy in HER2-positive Breast Cancer (clinicaltrials.gov) - May 18, 2020 P2, N=12, Terminated, Active, not recruiting --> Completed | N=3200 --> 1570 N=258 --> 12 | Trial completion date: May 2028 --> Apr 2020 | Recruiting --> Terminated | Trial primary completion date: Aug 2022 --> Apr 2020; We terminated this trial and initiated a new one including pertuzumab.
- |||||||||| Journal: Evaluation and reflection on claudin 18.2 targeting therapy in advanced gastric cancer. (Pubmed Central) - May 16, 2020
This review will reveal the definitive clinical benefit CLDN18.2-targeting therapies have achieved and update the highlighting development (like chimeric antigen receptor T-cell immunotherapy) to CLDN18.2 positive patients. We then focus on 10 questions arisen from recent progress and anticipate to provide a future perspective for novel cancer treatment.
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Trispecific natural killer cell nanoengagers for targeted chemoimmunotherapy (Virtual Meeting II: E-Posters) - May 16, 2020 - Abstract #AACRII2020AACR-II_3146; EGFR-targeted drug-free/EPI-encapsulated nano-TriNKEs were prepared by conjugating cetuximab (anti-EGFR), anti-4-BB, and anti-CD16 agonistic antibodies to PEG-PLGA NPs... Our data demonstrated that nano-TriNKEs are more effective in NK activation than free agonistic antibodies, and that the nanoengager platform provides more effective biological targeting, which is critical in NK-mediated cancer immunotherapy.
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Combining arsenic and topoisomerase inhibitors synergistically inhibit gastric cancer (Virtual Meeting II: E-Posters) - May 16, 2020 - Abstract #AACRII2020AACR-II_2937; Our research links arsenic compounds to the regulation of DNA damage repair and RAG1 expression as a mechanism for the cytotoxic effect. The combination of arsenic with topoisomerase inhibitors may represent a novel regimen for the treatment of gastric cancer and warrants further studies.
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Molecular profiling of ovarian cancer by targeted proteomics to inform personalized therapy (Virtual Meeting II: E-Posters) - May 16, 2020 - Abstract #AACRII2020AACR-II_2062; Biomarkers of resistance include ERCC1 (Platinum), TUBB3 (taxanes), ALDH1A1 (cyclophosphamide) while response biomarkers include TOPO1 (irinotecan, topotecan), TOPO2A (doxorubicin, epirubicin), hENT1 (Gemcitabine).We also measure markers for several antibody-drug conjugates (FR-alpha, Her2, Trop2, gPNMB, MSLN)...Novel chemotherapy agents that could potentially be used include temozolomide (40% of patients did not express MGMT, resistance marker for temozolomide)...Others could potentially benefit from clinical trials targeting low Her2 expression. The ability to multiplex 72 protein biomarkers from 2-3 FFPE sections provides immense actionable information on clinical treatment or for patient stratification for clinical trials.
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