Aims The aim of this study is to extend the analysis of the Lung Cancer Biomarker Testing Registry (LungPath), by analysing the techniques used in the determination of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK), c-ros oncogene 1 (ROS1) and programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) for the diagnostic of patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods Information of the technique used for the determination of EGFR, ALK, ROS1 and PD-L1 was recorded from March 2018 to January 2019 from 44 centres, but only 34 centres matched with the 38 centres previously analysed, allowing to analyse the techniques used in 8970 matched determinations of EGFR, ALK, ROS1 and PD-L1. Therefore, a by-centre analysis studied the level of implementation of the techniques in the 44 centres, while a by-determination analysis made it possible to assess the overall frequency of the techniques used on the 9134 matched samples. Results By-centre analysis showed that only 46.5%..... READ ARTICLE
Journal of Clinical Pathology DOI:10.1136/jclinpath-2021-208034
Authors: Martín-López J, Rojo F, Martínez-Pozo A,Hernández-Iglesias T, Carcedo D, Ruiz de Alda L, García JF, Salas C
Recent meta-analysis published by Feng et al. analyzed seventeen studies and reported statistically significant reduction in risk of lung cancer by 8% when circulating 25-VD is at 10 nmol/L, this benefit was seen in both Caucasian and Asian population. To our knowledge, there have been no studies looking at influence of concurrent vitamin D or aspirin intake on outcomes in ALK, ROS and EGFR pos NSCLC treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors. We performed a retrospective single institution analysis to study this association.Patients (pts) with ALK, ROS EGFR pos NSCLC treated with first line TKI from January 2014 to June 2017 were included. Information on concurrent use and doses of aspirin and vitamin D supplements were studied. Patients were dichotomized based on use of these individual supportive medications. Two sample t-test was used to compare mean PFS and chi-square test to compare proportions of disease control rate (DCR) at 3 months between groups.Our study did not show any diffe..... READ ARTICLE
Journal of Thoracic Oncology DOI:10.1016/j.jtho.2019.08.2008
Authors: C. Bernabe, S. Sharma, J. Sanchez, K. Sullivan, N. Seetharamu