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Mitochondrial niches of residual disease in EGFR-mutant NSCLC: immune-constrained persistence and therapeutic interception.
Frontiers in immunology - 1 Jan 2026
Liang Zhanhao, Zhao Xutong, Jiang Mingru, Zhou Meizhu, Cheng Miao, Liu Shibiao, Zhao Yi
Abstract excerpt
Therapeutic failure in EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is commonly viewed as a consequence of acquired resistance, but this perspective may overlook an earlier and potentially more tractable phase marked by the survival of residual cells after effective EGFR inhibition. In this Review, we define the mitochondrial niche as a temporally bounded, hypothesis-generating model of early residual disease...
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- Humans
- Mitochondria
- ErbB Receptors
- Mutation
- Lung Neoplasms
- Neoplasm, Residual
