Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63021, USA.
Oncologist. 2013 Jun;18(6):707-16. doi: 10.1634/theoncologist.2013-0063. Epub 2013 May 31.
Approximately 30% of patients with non-small cell lung cancer have the squamous cell carcinoma (SQCC) histological subtype. Although targeted therapies have improved outcomes in patients with adenocarcinoma, no agents are currently approved specifically for use in SQCC. The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) recently published the results of comprehensive genomic analyses of tumor samples from 178 patients with SQCC of the lung. In this review, we briefly discuss key molecular aberrations reported by TCGA and other investigators and their potential therapeutic implications. Carefully designed preclinical and clinical studies based on these large-scale genomic analyses are critical to improve the outcomes of patients with SQCC of lung in the near future.
大约 30%的非小细胞肺癌患者具有鳞状细胞癌(SQCC)组织学亚型。尽管针对腺癌患者的靶向治疗已经改善了其预后,但目前尚无专门用于 SQCC 的药物。癌症基因组图谱(TCGA)最近公布了 178 例肺 SQCC 肿瘤样本的综合基因组分析结果。在这篇综述中,我们简要讨论了 TCGA 和其他研究人员报告的关键分子异常及其潜在的治疗意义。基于这些大规模基因组分析精心设计的临床前和临床试验对于改善肺 SQCC 患者的近期预后至关重要。