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Title
New findings on primary and acquired resistance to anti-EGFR therapy in metastatic colorectal cancer : do all roads lead to RAS?
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Abstract
Anti-epidermal growth factor receptor therapy with the monoclonal antibodies cetuximab and panitumumab is the main targeted treatment to combine with standard chemotherapy for metastatic colorectal cancer. Many clinical studies have shown the benefit of the addition of these agents for patients without mutations in the EGFR pathway. Many biomarkers, including KRAS and NRAS mutations, BRAF mutations, PIK3CA mutations, PTEN loss, AREG and EREG expression, and HER-2 amplification have already been identified to select responders to anti-EGFR agents. Among these alterations KRAS and NRAS mutations are currently recognized as the best predictive factors for primary resistance. Liquid biopsy, which helps to isolate circulating tumor DNA, is an innovative method to study both primary and acquired resistance to anti-EGFR monoclonal antibodies. However, high-sensitivity techniques should be used to enable the identification of a wide set of gene mutations related to resistance.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Oncotarget. - Albany, N.Y, 2010, currens
Publication
Albany, N.Y : Impact Journals , 2015
ISSN
1949-2553
DOI
10.18632/ONCOTARGET.4959
Volume/pages
6 :28 (2015) , p. 24780-24796
ISI
000363160100023
Pubmed ID
26318427
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