TAIPEI, TAIWAN, Jan.31, 2023- Lung cancer is a leading cause of death in both men and women in Asia. About 80% to 85% of lung cancers are Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC). The main subtypes of NSCLC are adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and large cell carcinoma. These subtypes, which start from different types of lung cells, are grouped together as NSCLC because their treatment and outlook are often similar.
Precision Medicine Asia (Premia), a cancer screening network, and the National Cancer Center Hospital East in Japan are building a lung cancer clinicopathological genomic database and screening infrastructure that spans seven countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
National Cancer Center Japan conducts a genomics screening project - LC-SCRUM-Japan collaborates with medical institutions and pharmaceutical manufacturers across the country. The organization has performed continuous screening of target genes for NSCLC in lung cancer patients since 2013 and has enrolled over 7,000 patients as of the end of January 2019.
On the other hand, Premia has already managed a clinical-genomic lung cancer database- LC-SCRUM-Asia and developed a genomic screening platform through the LC-SCRUM-AP platform. Patients from Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, and Taiwan are able to enroll in clinical trials.
The goal is that academia and industry work together as a single organization to further the development of new drugs and diagnostics, with the aim of establishing personalized medicine for lung cancer. Currently, drugs targeting EGFR, ALK, ROS1, BRAF, NTRK, MET, RET, and KRAS gene mutations have already been approved in Japan, but may not be available in other countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Establishing a large-scale genomic database to identify and study patients with such mutations, some of which are rare, will help accelerate the development and commercialization of therapies targeting these mutations across multiple countries.
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