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CANCER MEDICINE
Volume 8, Issue 9, Pages 4330-4337Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/cam4.2175
Keywords
lung adenocarcinoma; molecular subtype; next generation sequencing; NF1; RAS-MAPK pathway
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- Cancer Research for Personalized Medicine program (CARPEM)
- Fondation Martine Midy
- Fondation Nuovo-Soldati
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The tumor suppressor gene neurofibromin 1 (NF1) is a major regulator of the RAS-MAPK pathway. NF1 mutations occur in lung cancer but were not extensively explored. We hypothesized that NF1-mutated tumors could define a specific population with a distinct clinical and molecular profile. We performed NF1 sequencing using next generation sequencing (NGS) in 154 lung adenocarcinoma surgical specimens with known KRAS, EGFR, TP53, BRAF, HER2, and PIK3CA status, to evaluate the molecular and clinical specificities of NF1-mutated lung cancers. Clinical data were retrospectively collected, and their associations with molecular profiles assessed. In this series, 24 tumors were NF1 mutated (17.5%) and 11 were NF1 deleted (8%). There was no mutation hotspot. NF1 mutations were rarely associated with other RAS-MAPK pathway mutations. Most of patients with NF1 alterations were males (74.3%) and smokers (74.3%). Overall survival and disease-free survival were statistically better in patients with NF1 alterations (N = 34) than in patients with KRAS mutations (N = 30) in univariate analysis. Our results confirm that NF1 is frequently mutated and represents a distinct molecular and clinical subtype of lung adenocarcinoma.
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