MET N375S mutation is a germline variant that causes chemoresistance to cisplatin, with a high incidence in Eastern Asia. This study highlights the ethnic differences in the biology of the disease, which can influence treatment recommendations and the genome-guided clinical trials of advanced endometrial cancer.
Consequently, METN375S positive cells confer resistance to MET inhibitors like crizotinib, but are sensitive to HER2 blockade including afatinib and trastuzumab. This is being validated in a clinical trial of HER2 inhibition in patients with SCCHN and lung and who harbour the METN375S Polymorphism.
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BRCA Biomarker • PARP Biomarker • IO biomarker
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EGFR (Epidermal growth factor receptor) • BRCA (Breast cancer early onset)
Accordingly, HER2 blockers, but not c-MET inhibitors, are paradoxically effective at restraining in vivo and in vitro models expressing MET. These results establish MET as a biologically distinct and clinically actionable molecular subset of SCCs that are uniquely amenable to HER2 blocking therapies.
TP53 mutations were more common in patients ≥60 years old (P<0.05), and IDH1 mutations were more common in male patients (P<0.05). NGS 50 gene panel sequencing provides a comprehensive tissue gene mutation profile which may significantly improve clinical management.