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Oncogenic Drivers and Therapeutic Vulnerabilities in KRAS Wild-Type Pancreatic Cancer.

Overview of attention for article published in Clinical Cancer Research, July 2023
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Title
Oncogenic Drivers and Therapeutic Vulnerabilities in KRAS Wild-Type Pancreatic Cancer.
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Clinical Cancer Research, July 2023
DOI 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-22-3930
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Harshabad Singh, Rachel B Keller, Kevin S Kapner, Julien Dilly, Srivatsan Raghavan, Chen Yuan, Elizabeth F Cohen, Michael Tolstorukov, Elizabeth Andrews, Lauren K Brais, Annacarolina da Silva, Kimberly Perez, Douglas A Rubinson, Rishi Surana, Marios Giannakis, Kimmie Ng, Thomas E Clancy, Matthew B Yurgelun, Benjamin L Schlechter, Jeffrey W Clark, Geoffrey I Shapiro, Michael H Rosenthal, Jason L Hornick, Valentina Nardi, Yvonne Y Li, Hersh Gupta, Andrew D Cherniack, Matthew Meyerson, James M Cleary, Jonathan A Nowak, Brian M Wolpin, Andrew J Aguirre

Abstract

Approximately 8-10% of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDAC) do not harbor mutations in KRAS. Understanding the unique molecular and clinical features of this subset of pancreatic cancer is important to guide patient stratification for clinical trials of molecularly targeted agents. We analyzed a single-institution cohort of 795 exocrine pancreatic cancer cases (including 785 PDAC cases) with a targeted multi-gene sequencing panel and identified 73 patients (9.2%) with KRAS wild-type (WT) pancreatic cancer. Overall, 43.8% (32/73) of KRAS WT cases had evidence of an alternative driver of the mitogen activated kinase (MAPK) pathway, including BRAF mutations and in-frame deletions and receptor-tyrosine kinase (RTK) fusions. Conversely, 56.2% of cases did not harbor a clear MAPK driver alteration, but 29.3% of these MAPK-negative KRAS WT cases (12/41) demonstrated activating alterations in other oncogenic drivers such as GNAS, MYC, PIK3CA and CTNNB1. We demonstrate potent efficacy of pan-RAF and MEK inhibition in patient-derived organoid (PDO) models carrying BRAF in-frame deletions. Moreover, we demonstrate durable clinical benefit of targeted therapy in a patient harboring a KRAS WT tumor with a ROS1fusion. Clinically, patients with KRAS WT tumors were significantly younger in age of onset (Median Age: 62.6 vs. 65.7 years , p = 0.037). SMAD4 mutations were associated with a particularly poor prognosis in KRAS WT cases. This study defines the genomic underpinnings of KRAS WT pancreatic cancer and highlights potential therapeutic avenues for future investigation in molecularly directed clinical trials.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 40%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 10%
Student > Master 1 10%
Unknown 4 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 40%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 20%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 10%
Unknown 3 30%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 39. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 December 2023.
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#1,114,885
of 26,386,754 outputs
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#728
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#20,971
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Outputs of similar age from Clinical Cancer Research
#11
of 127 outputs
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