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Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Data on non-small cell lung cancer reported by researchers at Nagpur University, Medical Department

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, December 28th, 2007

"We have investigated 92 non-small cell lung cancer tissues and found 11 PIK3CA amplification," scientists in Japan report.

"PIK3CA amplification incidence was significantly higher in mate, smoker and squamous cell carcinoma patients. Among 11 patients with PIK3CA amplification, two patients harbored a PIK3CA mutation," wrote O. Kawano and colleagues, Nagpur University, Medical Department.

The researchers concluded: "There was significant difference in survival between the patients with PIK3CA normal copy number and the patients with PIK3CA amplification."

Kawano and colleagues published their study in Lung Cancer (PIK3CA...

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