987 results about "Pulmonary Cancers" patented technology

The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.

The present invention relates to a composition comprising at least one mRNA encoding a combination of antigens capable of eliciting an (adaptive) immune response in a mammal, wherein the antigens are selected from the group consisting of 5T4 (Trophoblast glycoprotein, TPBG), Survivin (Baculoviral TAP repeat-containing protein 5; BIRC5), NY-ESO-1 (New York esophageal squamous cell carcinoma 1, CTAG1B), MAGE-C1 (Melanoma antigen family C1), MAGE-C2 (Melanoma antigen family C2), and MUC1 (Mucin 1). The invention furthermore relates to a vaccine comprising at least one mRNA encoding such a combination of antigens, and to the use of said composition (for the preparation of a vaccine) and/or of the vaccine for eliciting an (adaptive) immune response for the treatment of lung cancer, preferably of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and diseases or disorders related thereto. Finally, the invention relates to kits, particularly to kits of parts, containing the composition and/or the vaccine.

Provided is a compound useful as an inhibitor against the kinase activity of EML4-ALK fusion protein.

As a result of intensive and extensive studies on compounds having inhibitory activity against the kinase activity of EML4-ALK fusion protein, the present inventors found that the diamino heterocyclic carboxamide compounds of the present invention had inhibitory activity against the kinase activity of EML4-ALK fusion protein. By this finding, the present invention was completed. The compounds of the present invention can be used as a pharmaceutical composition for preventing and/or treating cancer, such as lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, and small cell lung cancer.

PCT No. PCT/US97/11564 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 14, 1999 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 14, 1999 PCT Filed Jul. 8, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO98/01132 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 15, 1998The present invention relates to specific adamantyl or adamantyl group derivative containing retinoid compounds induce apoptosis of cancer cells. These adamantyl retinoid derivatives are useful for the treatment of many cancers and solid tumors, especially androgen-independent prostate cancer, skin cancer, pancreatic carcinomas, colon cancer, melanoma, ovarian cancer, liver cancer, small cell lung carcinoma, non-small cell lung carcinoma, cervical carcinoma, brain cancer, bladder cancer, breast cancer, neuroblastoma/glioblastoma, and leukemia. Also, the invention relates to novel adamantyl or adamantyl group derivative compounds which are useful as active agents for the treatment or prevention of keratinization disorders and other dermatological conditions, and other diseases.

The invention provides modified antibodies directed against GD2 that have diminished complement fixation relative to antibody-dependent, cell-mediated cytotoxicity, which is maintained. The modified antibodies of the invention may be used in the treatment of tumors such as neuroblastoma, glioblastoma, melanoma, small-cell lung carcinoma, B-cell lymphoma, renal carcinoma, retinoblastoma, and other cancers of neuroectodermal origin.

The invention provides novel compositions, methods and uses, for the diagnosis, prognosis, prediction, prevention and aid in treatment of malignant neoplasia such as breast cancer, ovarian cancer, gastric cancer, colon cancer, esophageal cancer, mesenchymal cancer, bladder cancer or non-small cell lung cancer. Genes that are chromosomally amplified in breast tissue of breast cancer patients are disclosed. Further disclosed are chromosomally amplified genes and non-amplified genes that correlate to Taxane resistance, Taxane benefit or adverse Taxane reaction, which can be used as an aid to make therapy dicisions.

Heterocyclic pyrimidine compounds that modulate mutant-selective epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and ALK kinase activity are disclosed. More specifically, the invention provides pyrimidines which inhibit, regulate and/or modulate kinase receptor, particularly in selectively modulation of various EGFR mutant activity and ALK kinase activity have been disclosed. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the pyrimidine derivative,and methods of treatment for diseases associated with protein kinase enzymatic activity, particularly EGFR or ALK kinase activity including non-small cell lung cancer comprising administration of the pyrimidine derivative are disclosed.

The invention provides a portable device for diagnosis of lung cancer, which comprises a balloon, a gas pump, a buffer gas chamber, a reaction gas chamber, an image collection and processing system and a control system; the balloon collects exhaled gas of a patient with suspected lung cancer to carry out the reaction with a pre-designed porphyrin sensor array (the sensor array for detecting lung cancer markers, if the lung cancer markers exist, the color of the sensor array is changed before and after the reaction) in the reaction gas chamber, the collection of images before and after the reaction is realized by controlling the image collection and processing system through the control system, the images are compared, the collected images are carried out with the pretreatment to obtain the differential images before and after the reaction, the differential images are further compared with data in an expert lesion database to obtain the detection result, and the detection result is finally displayed through a liquid crystal screen or a micro-printer, thereby judging whether the patient suffers from the lung cancer or not.

The invention provides a veratramine degradation product veratrum fluorene aldehyde 1 and derivatives thereof. The invention uses steroidal alkaloid veratramine (A) as raw material and prepares veratrum fluorene aldehyde by oxidative degradation of m-chloroperoxybenzoic acid to obtain 20 derivative compounds of the veratrum fluorene aldehyde 1 after further oxidation, reduction and condensation reaction. The 20 compounds of the invention have good inhibitory activity on cancer cells, wherein the compounds 1, 2, 5, 8, 13 and 17 have good inhibitory activity on cells of human pancreatic cancer cells BxPC-3 and SW1990, small-cell lung cancer cells NCI-H446, human colorectal cancer LOVO and the like, and the inhibitory activity of the compound veratrum fluorene aldehyde 1 is the most significant.

Methods and compositions are provided for diagnosing lung cancer in a mammalian subject by use of three or more selected genes, e.g., a gene expression profile, from the peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of the subject which is characteristic of disease, a stage of the disease, or enables prognosis of recurrence of disease. The gene expression profile includes three or more genes of Table I, Table II, Table III, Table IV, Table V, Table VI or Table VII herein. Detection of changes in expression in the selected genes forming the gene expression profile from that of a reference gene expression profile are correlated with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). One composition for use in such diagnosis includes three or more PCR primer-probe sets, wherein each primer-probe set amplifies a different polynucleotide sequence from the gene expression profile. Another composition for similar use contains a plurality of polynucleotides immobilized on a substrate, which probes hybridize to three or more gene expression products from genes in the gene expression profile. Still another composition involves detection of the protein expression products of genes from the gene expression profile.

The use of dianhydrogalactitol provides a novel therapeutic modality for the treatment of non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) and ovarian cancer, as well as other types of malignancy, including brain metastases of NSCLC. Dianhydrogalactitol acts as an alkylating agent on DNA that creates N⁷ methylation. Dianhydrogalactitol is effective in suppressing the growth of cancer stem cells and is active against tumors that are refractory to temozolomide, cisplatin, and tyrosine kinase inhibitors; the drug acts independently of the MGMT repair mechanism. Dianhydrogalactitol can be used together with other anti-neoplastic agents and can possess additive or super-additive effects.

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitors are provided. In particular, 4-substituted-2-(N-(5-substituted allyl amide)phenyl)amino)pyrimidine derivatives of formula (I), a preparation method and use thereof as an EGFR inhibitor are provided. The 4-substituted-2-(N-(5-substituted allyl amide)phenyl)amino)pyrimidine derivatives of formula (I) have inhibitory activity against the L858R EGFR mutant, the T790M EGFR mutant and the exon 19 deletion activating mutant, and can be used to treat diseases mediated alone or in part by EGFR mutant activity. The derivatives of formula (I) can be used to treat and/or prevent cancers, particularly non-small cell lung cancer.

The invention discloses aptamer for typing different subtypes of non-small cell lung cancer and a method for screening the same. The aptamer provided by the invention is any DNA segment of nucleotide expressed by sequence 1 to sequence 9 in a sequence table. The aptamer is applied for typing different subtypes of non-small cell lung cancer. The aptamer of the invention can differentiate the different subtypes of non-small cell lung cancer on the molecule response signal under the condition of not knowing tumor markers of the non-small cell lung cancer. Using the aptamer of the invention for identifying the combined target is good for discovering the tumor markers of the different subtypes of non-small cell lung cancer, and earlier and exactly diagnosing and typing non-small cell lung cancer and discovering the tumor for treating new drug action targets.

The invention relates to a marine bacillus and its polypeptide with antitumor activity. The strain is preserved at China Center for Type Culture Collection in Wuhan, and its preservation number is CCTCC M 2013063. A novel marine bacillus polypeptide with anti-tumor activity is obtained from a fermentation product of the strain. By means of an MTT method, the invention finds that the polypeptide has an obvious proliferation inhibition effect on human hepatoma carcinoma cell BEL-7402, human breast cancer cell MCF-7, human glioma cell U251, human non-small-cell lung cancer cell A549 and other tumor cells, has relatively small cytotoxicity on human fibroblast HFL1, and can be applied in drugs treating human liver cancer, gliomas, lung cancer and breast cancer.

The present invention relates to the use of cytotoxicity based on the effector function of anti-CDH3 antibodies. Specifically, the present invention provides methods and pharmaceutical compositions that comprise an anti-CDH3 antibody as an active ingredient for damaging CDH3-expressing cells using antibody effector function. Since CDH3 is strongly expressed in pancreatic, lung, colon, prostate, breast, gastric or liver cancer cells, the present invention is useful in pancreatic, lung, colon, prostate, breast, gastric or liver cancer therapies.

The invention relates to a tricyclic compound of the formula (I) and the formula (II) and pharmaceutical acceptable salts of the tricyclic compound. The compounds of the kind can be applied to inhibit mutants, such as EGFR (L858R), EGFR (delE746-A750) and EGFR (T790M), of EGFR kinase, and can also be used for treating cancer, such as the non-small cell lung cancer, caused by the mutants of the EGFR. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds of the kind, methods for preparing the compounds of the kind and application of the compounds of the kind or the pharmaceutical compositions for preparing medicines for treating the cancers caused by the mutants of the EGFR.

The invention discloses inhibitors with ALK and EGFR dual activity, and a preparation method and an application thereof, and relates to N-(3-((4-((2-(isopropylsulfonyl)phenyl)amino)pyrimidine-2-yl)amino)phenyl)acryloylamide analogs represented by formula (I), and stereoisomers or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The series of compounds have epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) L858R EGFR mutant, T790MEGFR mutant and exon 19 deleted active mutant inhibition activity, and also have ALK inhibition activity, so the series of compounds can be used to treat EGFR mutant and ALK activity individually or partially mediated diseases, can be widely applied to medicines for preventing and treating cancers and especially non-small cell lung cancers, and is hopeful to be developed into new generation EGFR or/and ALK inhibitors.

The invention relates to an aptamer-based targeted delivery microRNA nanometer carrier as well as a preparation method and application thereof. A targeting molecule is a sulfydryl-modified MUC-1molecule, and can be combined with cancer-inhibiting microRNA-34a, so that a MicroRNA-nanodiamond-protamine complex (MNPs) becomes AMNPs with an active targeting function; through electrostatic interaction, a negatively-charged aptamer-microRNA (Apt-miR) chimera is adsorbed to a cationic protamine-nanodiamond carrier to form a trinary compound carrier. The therapeutic effect of a nanotransport system on a non-small cell lung cancer is researched; the Apt-miR chimera is low in immunogenicity; the modified MUC-1 aptamer has high chemical stability in vivo, and can be chemically synthesized easily; in order to improve the transfection efficiency, a protamine-modified nanodiamond material (NPs) is used for helping miRNA to increase accumulation in a tumor part through permeability and retention enhancing effects.

The invention discloses an electrochemical immunoassay method based on Au-PB-SiO2 composite nano-particles. The detection method adopts a double antibody sandwich method, allows neuron-specific enolase antibodies solid-supported on an electrode surface to perform an immunoreaction with neuron-specific enolase in a sample solution, and to combine with a co-coupled substance of Au-PB-SiO2 composite nano-particles and neuron-specific enolase antibodies. Based on the electrochemical activity of Au-PB-SiO2 composite nano-particles, the detected peak current value of a cyclic voltammetry reduction peak is positively correlated with the concentration of the neuron-specific enolase, and thus the concentration of the neuron-specific enolase in the sample to be detected can be detected. The electrochemical immunoassay method provided by the invention has a corresponding linear range of 0.25-500 ng/ml, and a lower detection limit of 0.08 ng/ml, has good specificity and high sensitivity, and has important significance for the diagnosis of small cell lung cancer (SCLC).

The present invention relates to therapeutic immunoconjugates comprising SN-38 attached to an anti-Trop-2 antibody or antigen-binding antibody fragment. In preferred embodiments, the antibody may be an hRS7 antibody. The methods and compostions are of use to treat Trop-2 expressing cancers in human patients, preferably in patients who are resistant to or relapsed from at least one prior anti-cancer therapy, more preferably in patients who are resistant to or relapsed from treatment with irinotecan. The immunoconjugate may be administered at a dosage of 3 mg/kg to 18 mg/kg, preferably 8 to 12 mg/kg, more preferably 8 to 10 mg/kg. When administered at specified dosages and schedules, the immunoconjugate can reduce solid tumors in size and reduce or eliminate metastases. Preferred tumors to treat with the subject immunoconjugates include triple-negative breast cancer, HER+, ER+, progesterone+ breast cancer, metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer, a metastatic small-cell lung cancer and metastatic pancreatic cancer.