IDENTIFICATION OF NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA (NSCLC) TUMORS EXPRESSING PDGFR-ALPHA

• Main Authors: GUO, AILAN, CROSBY, KATHERINE, LEE, KIMBERLY, POLAKIEWICZ, ROBERTO, ZENG, QINGFU, RIKOVA, KLARISA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 09.04.2008
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES; FISHING; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; HYGIENE; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEASURING; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PHYSICS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTSTHEREOF; TESTING; TRAPPING

The invention discloses a previously unidentified subset of mammalian non-small cell lung carcinomas (NSCLC) in which platelet-derived growth factor receptor alpha (PDGFRα) is expressed and is driving the disease, and provides methods for identifying a mammalian NSCLC tumor that belongs to a subset of NSCLC tumors in which PDGFRα is expressed, and for identifying a NSCLC tumor that is likely to respond to a PDGFRα-inhibiting therapeutic. The invention also provides methods for inhibiting the progression of a mammalian NSCLC tumor in which PDGFRα is expressed, and for determining whether a compound inhibits the progression of a PDGFRα-expressing mammalian NSCLC tumor.