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BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER
Volume 99, Issue 2, Pages 245-252Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604469
Keywords
carcinoma; non-small cell lung; mutation; LKB1; EGFR; KRAS
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- NCI NIH HHS [P20 CA090578, P20CA90578-02, 1R01CA114465-01, R01 CA114465] Funding Source: Medline
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Somatic mutations of LKB1 tumour suppressor gene have been detected in human cancers including non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The relationship between LKB1 mutations and clinicopathological characteristics and other common oncogene mutations in NSCLC is inadequately described. In this study we evaluated tumour specimens from 310 patients with NSCLC including those with adenocarcinoma, adenosquamous carcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma histologies. Tumours were obtained from patients of US (n = 143) and Korean (n = 167) origin and screened for LKB1, KRAS, BRAF, and EGFR mutations using RT-PCR-based SURVEYOR-WAVE method followed by Sanger sequencing. We detected mutations in the LKB1 gene in 34 tumours (11%). LKB1 mutation frequency was higher in NSCLC tumours of US origin (17%) compared with 5% in NSCLCs of Korean origin (P = 0.001). They tended to occur more commonly in adenocarcinomas (13%) than in squamous cell carcinomas (5%) (P = 0.066). LKB1 mutations associated with smoking history (P = 0.007) and KRAS mutations (P = 0.042) were almost mutually exclusive with EGFR mutations (P = 0.002). The outcome of stages I and II NSCLC patients treated with surgery alone did not significantly differ based on LKB1 mutation status. Our study provides clinical and molecular characteristics of NSCLC, which harbour LKB1 mutations.
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