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K-RAS mutations indicating primary resistance to crizotinib in ALK-rearranged adenocarcinomas of the lung: Report of two cases and review of the literature.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Mar 2016
Mengoli Maria Cecilia, Barbieri Fausto, Bertolini Federica, Tiseo Marcello, Rossi Giulio
Abstract excerpt
The paradigm of mutually exclusive alterations among oncogenic drivers in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is challenged by the increasing evidence of detection of two or more driver alterations in the same tumor using highly-sensitive molecular assays. We report here two cases of ALK-rearranged adenocarcinomas harboring concomitant exon 2 K-RAS mutations (G13D and Q61H). The patients, a 49-year-old smoker man...
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