scholarly journals PD‐1/PD‐L1 Blockade Therapy in Advanced Non‐Small‐Cell Lung Cancer: Current Status and Future Directions

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliang Xia ◽  
Yuanyong Liu ◽  
Ying Wang
2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 1667-1686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eitan Amir ◽  
Laszlo Mandoky ◽  
Fiona Blackhall ◽  
Nick Thatcher ◽  
Walter Klepetko ◽  
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Biomedicines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Patricia Mondelo-Macía ◽  
Jorge García-González ◽  
Luis León-Mateos ◽  
Adrián Castillo-García ◽  
Rafael López-López ◽  
...  

Approximately 19% of all cancer-related deaths are due to lung cancer, which is the leading cause of mortality worldwide. Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) affects approximately 15% of patients diagnosed with lung cancer. SCLC is characterized by aggressiveness; the majority of SCLC patients present with metastatic disease, and less than 5% of patients are alive at 5 years. The gold standard of SCLC treatment is platinum and etoposide-based chemotherapy; however, its effects are short. In recent years, treatment for SCLC has changed; new drugs have been approved, and new biomarkers are needed for treatment selection. Liquid biopsy is a non-invasive, rapid, repeated and alternative tool to the traditional tumor biopsy that could allow the most personalized medicine into the management of SCLC patients. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and cell-free DNA (cfDNA) are the most commonly used liquid biopsy biomarkers. Some studies have reported the prognostic factors of CTCs and cfDNA in SCLC patients, independent of the stage. In this review, we summarize the recent SCLC studies of CTCs, cfDNA and other liquid biopsy biomarkers, and we discuss the future utility of liquid biopsy in the clinical management of SCLC.


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