2015年4月21日
MD安德森研究人员命名为188bet体育网址肺癌和卵巢癌梦之队
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Approaches to cancer treatment developed by MD Anderson researchers as part of the institution’s Moon Shots Program will be, in part, the focus of two new Dream Teams announced by Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C), a national organization launched by film and media leaders to speed development of cancer treatments.
The researchers will test combinations of靶向治疗和immunotherapy against lung cancer driven by intractable KRAS mutations and will seek to prevent ovarian cancer in women at high risk for the disease.
The teams, announced this week at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, are the latest national collaborative efforts funded by SU2C, which assembles Dream Teams of prominent researchers to address specific issues.
“We’re honored MD Anderson experts have been invited to collaborate with the exceptional team assembled by Stand Up to Cancer, and we look forward to nationally expanding our ongoing research efforts focused on these deadly cancers,” said MD Anderson President Ronald DePinho, M.D. “Through these collaborations and vital support from SU2C, we have the potential to make a profound impact for the benefit of patients throughout the world.”
约翰Heymach,医学博士,博士, chair ofThoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, leads MD Anderson’s lung cancer team, andKaren Lu, M.D., chair of妇科肿瘤及生殖医学, heads MD Anderson’s role in ovarian cancer.
The Stand Up to Cancer-American Cancer Society Lung Cancer Translational Research Dream Team is a $20 million, multi-institution effort to rein in cancers driven by mutations in the KRAS gene.
“在肺癌中最大的未被满足的挑战是找到一种方法来针对KRAS突变,” Heymach说。“他们是突变的最常见的类型 - 间22至30例非小细胞肺癌%的人KRAS突变 - 而现在,有没有药物对这些病人。”
美国癌症协会报告说,肺癌的约85%的非小细胞肺癌。
Heymach和他的同事们一直在研究KRAS和方式把它作为攻击的双子座旗舰的一部分肺癌登月. (For a deeper dive, read:“有KRAS基因突变的肺癌的新子集标识”)
Heymach的团队将专注于结合靶向疗法叫做MEK抑制剂与针对KRAS突变的肺癌免疫检查点封锁。
卵巢癌:挽救生命通过预防
该站起来,癌症卵巢癌研究基金(OCRF)-Ovarian癌全国联盟(OCNA188bet体育网址) - 国家卵巢癌联盟(NOCC)转化研究梦一队是一个涉及五个机构一个$ 6亿美元的项目。
高档浆液性卵巢癌是最常见和致命的形式,占所有病例,其中90%是在晚期确诊时70%。全部病例的20%是由极大地提高女性的发展疾病的风险遗传性基因突变引起。
“所以,很多女性这一高危组中身份不明,我们认为成功地识别它们,并为他们提供预防性的手术方案提供了从这种疾病减少死亡率显著的机会,”陆,梦一队的预防项目的共同负责人说。
The Dream Team will launch such an effort based on a project started in 2012 as part of the乳房和卵巢癌登月,其重点是高档浆液性卵巢癌和三阴性乳腺癌,它们共享分子相似性。BRCA1和BRCA2基因突变增加患两种癌症的风险。
月亮拍摄提供了所有MD安德森患者或者癌症的普遍基因检测。那些具有突变可供与PARP抑制剂,其引起的突变地址缺陷的治疗。
与患者谁试验阳性突变,MD安德森研究人员开展了宣传,以家庭成员来教育他们的遗传学,为他们提供测试,以评估风险的工作。188bet体育网址梦一队的项目是“的,一个扩展。这是关于改善无障碍基因测试和授权的家庭成员测试,”陆说。
叫CHECMATE试验(机会通过使测试更好,更容易结束遗传性卵巢癌),这项研究将利用创新的基于网络的教育计划,并通过电话遗传咨询。这些程序测试发送唾液收集套件。
梦一队的第二个方面是测试新的预防措施。该项目将比较标准护理,这是去除输卵管和卵巢的,至第一仅除去与卵巢输卵管稍后移除的新颖选项。
卢说,研究表明输188bet体育网址卵管高品位浆液性卵巢癌的开始。延迟切除卵巢避免更年期提前和生活质量的蜜饯。MD安德森推出输卵管切除手术的第一个试点研究,去年,预计明年年初上报结果。