PURPOSE While patients with advanced-stage non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLCs) harboring MET exon 14 skipping mutations (METex14) often benefit from MET tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) treatment, clinical benefit is limited by primary and acquired drug resistance. The molecular basis for this resistance remains incompletely understood. CONCLUSION Our study provides a genomic landscape of co-occurring alterations in advanced-stage METex14-mutated NSCLC and suggests a potential combination therapy strategy targeting MAPK pathway signaling to enhance clinical outcomes. READ ARTICLE
Clinical Cancer Research DOI:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-19-1667
Authors: Julia K. Rotow, Philippe Gui, Wei Wu, Victoria M. Raymond, Richard B. Lanman, Frederic J. Kaye, Nir Peled, Ferran Fece de la Cruz, Brandon Nadres, Ryan B. Corcoran, Iwei Yeh, Boris C. Bastian, Petr Starostik, Kimberly Newsom, Victor R Olivas, Alexander M. Wolff, James S. Fraser, Eric A. Collisson, Caroline E. McCoach, D. Ross Camidge, Jose Pacheco, Lyudmila Bazhenova, Tianhong Li, Trever G. Bivona, Collin M. Blakely