Predictive and prognostic factors in non small cell lung cancer: identification of new genes and signal transduction pathways in the study of genomic and oncoproteomic

The aim of the project is the comprehension of resistance and survival mechanisms of the neoplastic cell in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) in both patients subjected to surgery or with advanced disease. In order to identify new genes, proteins and signal transduction pathways, involved in the establishment of the treatment resistance of neoplastic cells, cellular cohort derived from lung cancers will be compared, by gene expression profiling, to normal cells and cells derived from cancer relapse. Twenty patients with NSCLC surgically resected and one patient with advanced NSCLC have been enrolled in this study