Filippo Pietrantonio, Francesca Bergamo, Daniele Rossini, Filippo Ghelardi, Maria Caterina De Grandis, Marco Maria Germani, Giulia Barsotti, Vincenzo Formica, Giovanni Luca Frassineti, Giorgia Boscolo, Saverio Cinieri, Samantha Di Donato, Lorenzo Antonuzzo, Carlotta Antoniotti, Margherita Ambrosini, Vittoria Matilde Piva, Federico Nichetti, Matteo Fassan, Chiara Cremolini, Sara Lonardi
BACKGROUND: Upfront anti-EGFR therapy represents the standard of care for patients with left-sided, MSS/pMMR, RAS and BRAF wild-type mCRC. Molecular 'hyperselection' may optimize EGFR inhibition by detecting additional resistance alterations. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We used comprehensive genomic profiling on archival samples of elderly patients enrolled in the PANDA trial to detect: HER2 amplification/mutations; MET amplification; NTRK/ROS1/ALK/RET rearrangements; PIK3CA exon 20 mutations; PTEN alterations; AKT1 mutations; MAP2K1 mutations...
October 20, 2023: European Journal of Cancer