Grinshpun Albert, Zarbiv Yonaton, Roszik Jason, Subbiah Vivek, Hubert Ayala
Sharett Institute of Oncology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
Melanoma Medical Oncology and Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
Case Rep Oncol. 2019 Jan 4;12(1):7-13. doi: 10.1159/000496018. eCollection 2019 Jan-Apr.
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has a grim prognosis. Molecular and genomic analyses revealed that the striking majority of these tumors are driven by KRAS mutation, currently not amenable to targeted therapy. However, other driver mutations were found in a small fraction of patients. Herein we report of 3 cases of patients with metastatic PDAC and wildtype KRAS, found to harbor BRAF or RET pathogenic alterations. The patients were treated with targeted therapies with variable success. In our opinion, those proof-of-concept cases argue in favor of additional research and clinical trials' effort in this small but significant PDAC population with uncommon driver mutations.
胰腺腺癌(PDAC)预后严峻。分子和基因组分析显示,这些肿瘤绝大多数由KRAS突变驱动,目前无法进行靶向治疗。然而,在一小部分患者中发现了其他驱动突变。在此,我们报告3例转移性PDAC且KRAS野生型的患者,发现他们存在BRAF或RET致病性改变。这些患者接受了靶向治疗,疗效各异。我们认为,这些概念验证病例支持针对这一小部分具有罕见驱动突变但意义重大的PDAC人群开展更多研究和临床试验。