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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Joshi, Asim
• Mishra, Rohit
• Desai, Sanket
• Chandrani, Pratik
• Kore, Hitesh
• Sunder, Roma
• Hait, Supriya
• Iyer, Prajish
• Trivedi, Vaishakhi
• Choughule, Anuradha
• Noronha, Vanita
• Joshi, Amit
• Patil, Vijay
• Menon, Nandini
• Kumar, Rajiv
• Prabhash, Kumar
• Dutt, Amit

Titel

Molecular characterization of lung squamous cell carcinoma tumors reveals therapeutically relevant alterations

Ist Teil von

• Oncotarget, 2021-03, Vol.12 (6), p.578-588

Ort / Verlag

United States: Impact Journals LLC

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Unlike lung adenocarcinoma patients, there is no FDA-approved targeted-therapy likely to benefit lung squamous cell carcinoma patients. We performed survival analyses of lung squamous cell carcinoma patients harboring therapeutically relevant alterations identified by whole exome sequencing and mass spectrometry-based validation across 430 lung squamous tumors. We report a mean of 11.6 mutations/Mb with a characteristic smoking signature along with mutations in and among lung squamous cell carcinoma patients of Indian descent. In addition, therapeutically relevant mutations occur in 5.8% patients, significantly higher than as reported among Caucasians. In overall, our data suggests 13.5% lung squamous patients harboring druggable mutations have lower median overall survival, and 19% patients with a mutation in at least one gene, known to be associated with cancer, result in significantly shorter median overall survival compared to those without mutations. We present the first comprehensive landscape of genetic alterations underlying Indian lung squamous cell carcinoma patients and identify and as potentially important therapeutic and prognostic target.