Department of Pathology, New York University Langone Health, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, USA.
Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Head Neck Pathol. 2020 Sep;14(3):817-821. doi: 10.1007/s12105-019-01074-6. Epub 2019 Sep 9.
Salivary gland secretory carcinoma, also termed mammary analogue secretory carcinoma (MASC), is a recently described salivary gland neoplasm with characteristic histomorphologic findings similar to those of secretory carcinoma of the breast and harboring recurrent ETV6-NTRK3 fusions. Recent findings have expanded the molecular profile of salivary gland secretory carcinoma to include multiple novel ETV6 fusion partners, including RET, MET, and MAML3. Here, we report a case of cystic MASC with cribriform and papillary histology harboring two gene fusions, ETV6-RET and EGFR-SEPT14, identified by targeted RNA sequencing. The presence of the rearrangements was confirmed by FISH, RT-PCR, and Sanger sequencing. This is the first EGFR-SEPT14 fusion reported in secretory carcinoma as a single event or in association with an ETV6 rearrangement. This finding adds to the expanding molecular profile of this tumor entity, and may translate into novel treatment strategies.
涎腺分泌性癌,也称为乳腺样分泌性癌(MASC),是一种最近描述的涎腺肿瘤,具有与乳腺分泌性癌相似的特征性组织形态学表现,并具有反复发生的 ETV6-NTRK3 融合。最近的研究结果扩展了涎腺分泌性癌的分子特征谱,包括多个新的 ETV6 融合伙伴,如 RET、MET 和 MAML3。在这里,我们报告了一例囊性 MASC,具有筛状和乳头状组织学特征,携带两种基因融合,即 ETV6-RET 和 EGFR-SEPT14,这两种融合通过靶向 RNA 测序确定。通过 FISH、RT-PCR 和 Sanger 测序证实了重排的存在。这是首例 EGFR-SEPT14 融合报告在分泌性癌中作为单一事件或与 ETV6 重排相关。这一发现增加了该肿瘤实体不断扩展的分子特征谱,并可能转化为新的治疗策略。