Dept of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital Antwerp, Wilrijkstraat 10, 2650 Antwerp, Belgium.
Ther Adv Med Oncol. 2011 Jul;3(4):207-18. doi: 10.1177/1758834011409000.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Standard chemotherapy has been shown to improve quality of life and has a modest influence on overall survival. This modest improvement in survival is partly due to the choice of chemotherapy regimens that have been based on prognostic factors such as age, performance status and comorbidities of the patient. This underlines the importance of developing a more personalized therapy for patients with non-small cell lung cancer. Such an approach may reduce the variation in how individual patients respond to medications by tailoring therapies to their genetic profile. In this review we focus on several aspects of customized therapy, looking not only at patient characteristics but also to tumor histology and specific tumor biomarkers.
肺癌是全球癌症死亡的主要原因。标准化疗已被证明能提高生活质量,并对总生存有适度影响。这种生存的适度改善部分归因于化疗方案的选择,这些方案基于患者的年龄、表现状态和合并症等预后因素。这凸显了为非小细胞肺癌患者开发更个性化治疗的重要性。这种方法可以通过根据患者的遗传特征来调整治疗方法,从而减少个体患者对药物反应的差异。在这篇综述中,我们关注了几种定制治疗的方面,不仅着眼于患者的特征,还着眼于肿瘤组织学和特定的肿瘤生物标志物。