LUNG CANCER HARB ORING HER2 MUTATION :EPIDE MIOLOGI CAL CHARACTE RISTICS AND
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Introduction: HER2 oncogene is a memb er of the EGFR family, encoding atransmembrane receptor that drives and regulates cell proliferation. HER2 mutations are identified in about 2% of non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) , mainly located in exon 20, and appear to be critical for lung cancer carcinogenesis . Very scarce data are available to define a clinical profile of the patients harboring HER2 mutated NSCLC. We aimed to study clinic opatholog ical characteristics an d therapeutic: ?% j5 V w$ A5 S* p
outcomes of patients harboring HER2 mutation in a large European series. Result s:We retrospec tively ide ntified 46 NSCLC patients diagn osed with HER2 exon 20 mut ation. HER2 mutation was mainly exclusive as only one concomitan t KRas mutation was des cribed. Our population was characterized by a median age of 60 yr (31 to 86 yr), a high proportion of women (30 vs. 16 men, 65% ), and of never smokers (24, 52%). All tumors were adenoc arcinomas (two with lepidic features). Half of the patients had stage IV dise ase at the time of diagnosis. HER2 targeted
a* |& s H7 Dtreatment was delivered after convention al chemothe rapy. A total of 20 anti-Her2
0 G* @) g7 ?1 G4 z7 B* U; N* Wtreatments were eval uable. We observed 4 progressive dise ases, 7 disease stabilizations
" u* u Y2 J" {and 9 partial resp onses according to RECIST 1.1 (overall response rate ORR = 45% ;
8 V' [9 l5 K) H+ w0 l7 d7 o3 r$ I0 @+ |disease control rate DCR = 80%). Specifica lly, we obse rved a DCR of 92% for
. ?( n; l! v, b1 ntrastuzum ab-based therapie s (n = 14), 100 % for afatinib (n = 3) but no response to
~3 _2 |2 R* \ B8 G* Dlapatinib (n = 2) and to a multiTKI (n = 1). Median survival was of 68.2 months and
A$ d1 D8 T7 z7 p/ x& h22.9 months for respectively early stage and stag e IV patients.% b; i$ P) ?2 \5 R( E# K& z' f
Conclusion: This study, the largest to date dedic ated to HER2 mutated NSCLC,3 S" V8 D- B% q: R
reinforces the importance of an HER2 screening strategy in lung adenoc arcinomas .
/ \; H# f% T' b( ]6 KHER2-target ed drugs shou ld be tested further, ide ally withi n large collaborative) I) {: D( J d0 |& p
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