Thymosin α1 and α-Inteferon with Cisplatin and Etoposide in Advanced Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Phase II Study

In recent years, biological response modifiers (BRMs) have emerged as an important new class of agents for treating cancer. Agents such as interferon (IFN) and interleukin 2 (IL-2) have been reported to induce significant tumor regression in various types of cancer usually resistant to chemotherapy (1,12), but their use in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has received little attention.