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HER2+ mCRC patients with exon 20 R784G substitution mutation do not respond to the cetuximab therapy.
Journal of cellular physiology - 1 Aug 2019
Gharib Ehsan, Salmanipour Reza, Nazemalhosseini Mojarad Ehsan, Yaghoob Taleghani Mohammad, Sarlak Saharnaz, Malekzade-Moghani Mona, Nasrabadi Parinaz Nasri, Meiary Mohammad Amin, Asadzadeh Aghdaei Hamid, Zali Mohammad Reza
Abstract excerpt
The human epidermal growth factor 2 (HER2) gene undergoes various mutations that could alter its activity or respond to the antibody therapies. Cetuximab, a known anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody (mAB), is widely administered in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) cases. Here we identified mCRC patients who did not respond to cetuximab (500 mg/m2 , q2w) after fluoropyrimidine/oxaliplatin regimen failure. Tumor...
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