Chemotherapy for lung cancer patients

The number of lung cancer-related deaths has increased since the 1960 and has become the leading cause of cancer-related death in Japan. It is anticipated that the number will double in the next 20 years. Chemotherapy is a hopeful systemic therapy because of distant metastases due to lung cancer. Platinum based doublets remain the standard of care for the first-line treatment of metastatic NSCLC. As salvage chemotherapy for patients, the effectiveness of docetaxel has been confirmed. The standard chemotherapy for extensive SCLC is the combination of cisplatin and irinotecan or etoposide. Recently, randomized trials have shown that platinum-based chemotherapy has the potential to improve survival among patients with completely resected NSCLC. Recent advances in molecular biology and genetics have created new molecular targeted therapies for lung cancer. New anti-cancer agents, including gefitinib, erlotinib, bevacizumab, pemetrexed and amrubicin, are being developed currently.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2006

Erschienen:

2006

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:28

Enthalten in:

Journal of UOEH - 28(2006), 1 vom: 01. März, Seite 75-84

Sprache:

Japanisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Uramoto, Hidetaka [VerfasserIn]
Kagami, Seiji [VerfasserIn]
Iwashige, Atsushi [VerfasserIn]
Tsukada, Junichi [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

15H5577CQD
6PLQ3CP4P3
7673326042
Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic
Camptothecin
Cisplatin
DA87705X9K
Docetaxel
Erlotinib Hydrochloride
Etoposide
Gefitinib
Irinotecan
Journal Article
Protein Kinase Inhibitors
Q20Q21Q62J
Quinazolines
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review
S65743JHBS
Taxoids
XT3Z54Z28A

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 24.04.2006

Date Revised 26.10.2019

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM16131774X