Lung Cancer by Tamaris Livers
Lung cancer is a disease that affects many people. More than 228,000 people in the US will be diagnosed with lung cancer this year, with a new diagnosis every 2.3 minutes, One in 16 people in the US will be diagnosed with lung cancer in their lifetime.1 out of 15 men will develop lung cancer, and 1 out of 17 women will develop lung cancer. There are many types of cancers and lung cancer is one but there are also many types of lung cancers. The types are small cell lung cancer, non small cell lung cancer, Adenocarcinoma, squamous cell cancer, ect.
With all the types of lung cancers comes with different types of treatments and no treatment is the same and many of the treatments are complex. Became of this it is hard to determine the prognosis of each patient with a lung cancer subtype. A tool that has helped is the of molecular biomarkers which is used to identifying cancer. Molecular biomarkers are any measurable characteristic, be it a protein, small molecular, genetic sequences of DNA, and many more. Dr. Dhruva Biswas and a team of scientists, aim to streamline the process of finding a biomarker. They needed to find a marker consistent in all lung cancers, but different enough to be able to classify the type of lung cancer it is. They did a series of experiments, they discovered an RNA marker that was consistent in all lung cancer tumor samples. That mark was also found in many lung cancer survivors. They called this mark ORACLE known as “23 gene prognostic signature.” This ORACLE was significantly associated with survival and mortality rates in patients with a specific type of stage 1 lung cancer. Doctors will soon be able to know if the types of cancer is aggressive or not. With this new information doctors with be able determine precisely which type of lung cancer a patient has, the prognosis, and what the treatment will be.
Questions
Do you think this will help become a fast more relatable way to determine what cancer a patient has ?
Will this have bad side effects like chemotherapy has ?
Will it help find treatments that’ll get rid of these cancers for good ?
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