Abstract
Currently, lung cancer treatment has been developing in several approaches such as; conservative chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or novel targeted therapies which increase the overall response rate, survival rate with good quality of life for the patients. This study aims to explore the whole genome sequencing profile and omics profile in non-targetable advanced non-small cell lung cancer both in tissue and in liquid biopsy. The results of this research project will lead to developing of screening, diagnosis, personalized therapy, and monitor of treatment in this group of patients. We will explore the data according to Thai population which might be different from the other ethnicity and this will lead to developing the new drug for Thai lung cancer patients. This research project composed of 7 sub-research projects which we completed the first-year aim. The first, second, third, fifth, and seventh sub-research projects will continue the research for the consecutive years. Furthermore, the first, second, and the seventh subresearch projects are in the process of preparing for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) for the second-year proposal aim. In the first year, we could prepare the good quality of DNA and RNA as our purpose in order to proceed in NGS. Regarding the third, fourth, and fifth subresearch projects we found the initial result in potential biomarkers for predicting of treatment response. We also explored the clinical characteristics of 17 locally advanced and advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. Majority of patient were male, former/current smokers, adenocarcinoma with the high prevalence of PD-L1 expression (TPS = 1-49%: 23.5 % and TPS ≥ 50%: 35.8 %). In conclusion, the study of molecular alterations in Thai lung cancer patients is very important for drug development in order to drive the innovative lung cancer treatment. However, the other important issue and concern is exploring the whole genome sequencing profile and omics profile in non-targetable advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Our research team hope the results of this research project will lead to developing of screening, diagnosis, personalized therapy, and monitor of treatment in this group of patients.
