The aim of the present study was to determine the predictive role of IGF-1R expression in the response to EGFR-TKIs of NSCLC patients harboring activating EGFR mutations.
The pullback of trials in patients with breast cancer and NSCLC based on several large negative trials is noted and contrasted with the sustained success of IGF1R inhibitor monotherapy in a subset of patients with sarcoma.
The utility of IGF-1R expression as a predictive biomarker was also evaluated by immunohistochemistry (IHC) in 98 primary NSCLC samples from patients treated with gefitinib.
This study compared the effects of IGF-1R inhibition on viability and apoptosis of two NSCLC cell lines, using three different methods for the impairment of IGF-1R function: (IR3, an anti-IGF-1R antibody; tyrphostin AG1024, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) and IGF-1R-small interfering RNA (siRNA).
Thus, combining inhibitors of IGF-IR, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/Akt, mTOR, or survivin with SCH66336 may be an effective anticancer therapeutic strategy for patients with HNSCC or NSCLC.
Using non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) cells harboring the erlotinib-sensitizing Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) exon 19 mutation delE746-A750, we developed erlotinib-refractory derivatives in which hyperactive Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 Receptor (IGF-1R) signaling associated with enrichment in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT)-related morphological and transcriptional features.
We demonstrated that miR-497 may have the effect of reversing gefitinib resistance and increasing the sensitivity of NSCLC cells to EGFR-TKIs by inhibiting the expression of IGF-1R and reducing activation of the downstream AKT signaling pathway.
We previously showed that insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor (IGF-1R) inhibition enhanced radiosensitivity of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells.