2011 Lung Cancer Research Foundation Annual Grant Program
Jamie Chaft, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Research Project:
Can specific biomarkers (SNP's) in a lung cancer speciman identify patients likely to respond to chemotherapy?
Summary:
The grant will collect data from lung cancer patients attempting to identify markers that are associated with resistance and response to commonly used chemotherapy drugs in lung cancer. Ideally a predictive score could be used to assist clinicians in deciding which patients may have best chemotherapy responses and lead to considering alternative options otherwise. The model is based on recent success in applying the score to patients with urologic cancers.