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Caicun Zhou

Caicun Zhou

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Medicine

D-Index
103
Citations
61971
World Ranking
7177
National Ranking
76

Overview

Caicun Zhou is affiliated with Tongji University in China and has a research focus primarily in medicine, with significant contributions to pulmonary and respiratory medicine, oncology, and cancer research. The scientist's work also touches on molecular biology and immunology as subfields of study.

Their research frequently covers topics such as lung cancer treatments and mutations, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, lung cancer diagnosis and treatment, cancer genomics and diagnostics, lung cancer research studies, colorectal cancer treatments and studies, and HER2/EGFR in cancer research.

Recent notable publications include:

  • Adjuvant atezolizumab after adjuvant chemotherapy in resected stage IB-IIIA non-small-cell lung cancer (IMpower010): a randomised, multicentre, open-label, phase 3 trial (2021) - The Lancet
  • Camrelizumab plus carboplatin and pemetrexed versus chemotherapy alone in chemotherapy-naive patients with advanced non-squamous non-small-cell lung cancer (CameL): a randomised, open-label, multicentre, phase 3 trial (2020) - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • Camrelizumab Plus Carboplatin and Paclitaxel as First-Line Treatment for Advanced Squamous NSCLC (CameL-Sq): A Phase 3 Trial (2021) - Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • Treatment Outcomes and Safety of Mobocertinib in Platinum-Pretreated Patients With EGFR Exon 20 Insertion-Positive Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (2021) - JAMA Oncology
  • Overall survival with adjuvant atezolizumab after chemotherapy in resected stage II-IIIA non-small-cell lung cancer (IMpower010): a randomised, multicentre, open-label, phase III trial (2023) - Annals of Oncology

Caicun Zhou has collaborated with several frequent co-authors including:

  • Shengxiang Ren
  • Tao Jiang
  • Fengying Wu
  • Enriqueta Felip
  • Ying Cheng

The researcher's work has appeared primarily in several key publication venues, demonstrating a focus on clinical oncology and thoracic oncology. These include:

  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • Lung Cancer
  • Translational Lung Cancer Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Osimertinib in Untreated EGFR-Mutated Advanced Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

    Jean-Charles Soria;Yuichiro Ohe;Johan Vansteenkiste;Thanyanan Reungwetwattana

  • Erlotinib versus chemotherapy as first-line treatment for patients with advanced EGFR mutation-positive non-small-cell lung cancer (OPTIMAL, CTONG-0802): a multicentre, open-label, randomised, phase 3 study

    Caicun Zhou;Yi Long Wu;Gongyan Chen;Jifeng Feng

  • Pembrolizumab versus chemotherapy for previously untreated, PD-L1-expressing, locally advanced or metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (KEYNOTE-042): a randomised, open-label, controlled, phase 3 trial

    Tony S.K. Mok;Yi Long Wu;Iveta Kudaba;Dariusz M. Kowalski

  • Overall Survival with Osimertinib in Untreated, EGFR-Mutated Advanced NSCLC

    Suresh S Ramalingam;Johan Vansteenkiste;David Planchard;Byoung Chul Cho

  • Durvalumab plus platinum–etoposide versus platinum–etoposide in first-line treatment of extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer (CASPIAN): a randomised, controlled, open-label, phase 3 trial

    Luis Paz-Ares;Mikhail Dvorkin;Yuanbin Chen;Niels Reinmuth

  • Afatinib versus cisplatin plus gemcitabine for first-line treatment of Asian patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer harbouring EGFR mutations (LUX-Lung 6): an open-label, randomised phase 3 trial

    Yi-Long Wu;Caicun Zhou;Cheng-Ping Hu;Jifeng Feng

  • Afatinib versus cisplatin-based chemotherapy for EGFR mutation-positive lung adenocarcinoma (LUX-Lung 3 and LUX-Lung 6): analysis of overall survival data from two randomised, phase 3 trials

    James Chih Hsin Yang;Yi Long Wu;Martin Schuler;Martin Sebastian

  • Afatinib versus placebo for patients with advanced, metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer after failure of erlotinib, gefitinib, or both, and one or two lines of chemotherapy (LUX-Lung 1): a phase 2b/3 randomised trial

    Vincent A. Miller;Vincent A. Miller;Vera Hirsh;Jacques Cadranel;Yuh Min Chen

  • Clinical activity of afatinib in patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer harbouring uncommon EGFR mutations: a combined post-hoc analysis of LUX-Lung 2, LUX-Lung 3, and LUX-Lung 6.

    James C.H. Yang;Lecia V. Sequist;Sarayut Lucien Geater;Chun Ming Tsai

  • Adjuvant atezolizumab after adjuvant chemotherapy in resected stage IB-IIIA non-small-cell lung cancer (IMpower010): a randomised, multicentre, open-label, phase 3 trial.

    Enriqueta Felip;Nasser Altorki;Caicun Zhou;Tibor Csőszi

  • First-line erlotinib versus gemcitabine/cisplatin in patients with advanced EGFR mutation-positive non-small-cell lung cancer: analyses from the phase III, randomized, open-label, ENSURE study

    Y.-L. Wu;C. Zhou;C.-K. Liam;G. Wu

  • Clinical Experience With Crizotinib in Patients With Advanced ALK-Rearranged Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer and Brain Metastases

    Daniel B. Costa;Alice T. Shaw;Sai-Hong I. Ou;Benjamin J. Solomon

  • CNS Response to Osimertinib Versus Standard Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Patients With Untreated EGFR-Mutated Advanced Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

    Thanyanan Reungwetwattana;Kazuhiko Nakagawa;Byoung Chul Cho;Manuel Cobo

  • Detection and Dynamic Changes of EGFR Mutations from Circulating Tumor DNA as a Predictor of Survival Outcomes in NSCLC Patients Treated with First-line Intercalated Erlotinib and Chemotherapy

    Tony S.K. Mok;Yi-Long Wu;Jin Soo Lee;Chong-Jen Yu

  • Final overall survival results from a randomised, Phase III study of erlotinib versus chemotherapy as first-line treatment of EGFR mutation-positive advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (OPTIMAL, CTONG-0802)

    Caicun Zhou;Y. L. Wu;G. Chen;J. Feng

  • Icotinib versus gefitinib in previously treated advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (ICOGEN): a randomised, double-blind phase 3 non-inferiority trial

    Yuankai Shi;Li Zhang;Xiaoqing Liu;Caicun Zhou

  • Single-cell profiling of tumor heterogeneity and the microenvironment in advanced non-small cell lung cancer

    Fengying Wu;Jue Fan;Yayi He;Anwen Xiong

  • Vandetanib plus docetaxel versus docetaxel as second-line treatment for patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (ZODIAC): a double-blind, randomised, phase 3 trial.

    Roy S Herbst;Yan Sun;Wilfried E E Eberhardt;Paul Germonpré

  • Durvalumab, with or without tremelimumab, plus platinum-etoposide versus platinum-etoposide alone in first-line treatment of extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer (CASPIAN): updated results from a randomised, controlled, open-label, phase 3 trial.

    Jonathan W Goldman;Mikhail Dvorkin;Yuanbin Chen;Niels Reinmuth

  • Role of IL-2 in cancer immunotherapy.

    Tao Jiang;Caicun Zhou;Shengxiang Ren

Frequent Co-Authors

Yi-Long Wu
Yi-Long Wu Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital
Li Zhang
Li Zhang Sun Yat-sen University
Tony Mok
Tony Mok Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jifeng Feng
Jifeng Feng Nanjing Medical University
James Chih-Hsin Yang
James Chih-Hsin Yang National Taiwan University
Lei Wang
Lei Wang University of Wollongong
Kenneth J. O'Byrne
Kenneth J. O'Byrne Queensland University of Technology
Kefeng Cai
Kefeng Cai Tongji University
Yongqian Shu
Yongqian Shu Nanjing Medical University
Lecia V. Sequist
Lecia V. Sequist Harvard University

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