A study to explore the effects of cetuximab alone or in combination with irinotecan in patients with an abnormal gene (KRAS) in their colon cancer cells.
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...Prior confirmation of tumour KRAS status as either KRAS WT (with no mutations or changes in BRAF, NRAS, PIK3CA exon20) OR KRAS G13D mutation,6. ...
Colon cancer-derived oncogenic EGFR G724S mutant identified by whole genome sequence analysis is dependent on asymmetric dimerization and sensitive to cetuximab
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...cetuximab treatment was ineffective for the tumors driven by HCT8, which is consistent with the previous findings that KRAS-mutant tumors are insensitive to cetuximab (Figure 2C)….