Molecularly tailored adjuvant chemotherapy for resected non-small cell lung cancer: a time for excitement and equipoise. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • In patients with previously-untreated, completely-resected pathologic stage II-III non-small cell lung cancer, 4 months of postoperative cisplatin-based chemotherapy reduces the risk of death by approximately 20%. To date, the only prospectively validated prognostic and predictive factor which can be used to guide clinical practice is pathologic stage. Higher stage patients have a worse prognosis, but derive more benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy. Numerous molecular markers are being developed with the potential to help decide which patients to treat with adjuvant chemotherapy, and which drugs to use. This paper will review the molecular markers which are having immediate impact on treatment decisions in routine practice, and which merit further study in the next generation of adjuvant chemotherapy trials.

publication date

  • January 1, 2008

Research

keywords

  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Biomarkers, Tumor
  • Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
  • Lung Neoplasms

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 37549001027

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1097/JTO.0b013e31815efe24

PubMed ID

  • 18166846

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 3

issue

  • 1