Benedito A Carneiro, Sahithi Pamarthy, Ami N Shah, Vinay Sagar, Kenji Unno, HuiYing Han, Ximing J Yang, Rubens B Costa, Rebecca J Nagy, Richard B Lanman, Timothy M Kuzel, Jeffrey S Ross, Laurie Gay, Julia A Elvin, Siraj M Ali, Massimo Cristofanilli, Young Kwang Chae, Francis J Giles, Sarki A Abdulkadir
PURPOSE: Small cell carcinoma of the prostate (SCCP) is an aggressive disease that can arise de novo or by transdifferentiation from prostate adenocarcinoma. Alterations in anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene are involved in neuroblastoma, lung cancer, and other malignancies but its role in SCCP has not been documented. We describe a patient with refractory de novo SCCP with ALK F1174C activating mutation who obtained clinical benefit from treatment with ALK inhibitor. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: Next-generation sequencing (NGS) was used to analyze primary and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA)...
March 20, 2018: Clinical Cancer Research: An Official Journal of the American Association for Cancer Research