title: [Individualized tumor response assay].
abstract: The accuracy of an individualized tumor response (ITR) assay in Japan was reportedly 74% (30th Annual Meeting of Japan Research Society for Appropriate Cancer Chemotherapy). Based upon the hypothesis according to which the appropriate adjuvant cancer chemotherapy will increase the survival outcome after surgery of advanced gastric cancer, we have clarified the usefulness of an ITR assay in evaluating the appropriate adjuvant chemotherapy for gastric cancer. While recent reports indicate the standard therapy for gastric cancer, the gastric cancer cohort includes responder and non-responder to adjuvant cancer chemotherapy. The ITR assay will be useful to differentiate the responder and nonresponder to cancer chemotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Center for Comprehensive and Advanced Medicine, Keio University Hospital.
authors.forename: Tetsuro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kubota
mesh_terms: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use; D017326:Clinical Trials, Phase III as Topic; D004354:Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor; D006801:Humans; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents