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Apoptosis in non-small cell lung cancer as related to drug resistance and prognosis

✍ Scribed by G. Stammler; M. Volm

Publisher: Springer
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Weight: 382 KB
Volume: 1
Category: Article
ISSN: 1360-8185
DOI: 10.1007/bf00142084

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✦ Synopsis

The percentage of apoptotic cells among the tumor cells (apoptotic index) was determined in a series of 178 non-small cell lung carcinomas with a long term clinical follow-up by a terminal desoxynucleotidyl transferase mediated dUTP nick end labelling technique. In survival analysis, we found no statistically significant correlation between the apoptotic index and survival times. We estimated also the sensitivity of specimens to doxorubicin by a short term test. Tumors with a high apoptotic activity were more sensitive to doxorubicin than tumors with a less apoptotic index. Thus, our data indicate that apoptosis may be involved in drug response of lung tumors and it could be useful for the chemotherapeutic strategy to design drugs which trigger apoptosis.

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