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Clinical investigation of EGFR mutation detection by pyrosequencing in lung cancer patients

  • Authors:
    • Hee Joung Kim
    • Seo Young Oh
    • Wan Seop Kim
    • Sun Jong Kim
    • Gwang Ha Yoo
    • Won Dong Kim
    • Kye Young Lee
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    Affiliations: Department of Internal Medicine, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul 143-729, Republic of Korea, Department of Pathology, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul 143-729, Republic of Korea
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       https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2012.950
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Abstract

Direct sequencing is the standard method for the detection of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations in lung cancer, however, its relatively low sensitivity limits its clinical use. Pyrosequencing is a bioluminometric, real-time non-electrophoretic DNA sequencing technique with a number of advantages compared with direct sequencing, including higher sensitivity, speed, automation and cost-effectiveness. Clinical specimens from 202 lung cancer patients were analyzed for EGFR mutations in exons 18, 19, 20 and 21 using the pyrosequencing method following genomic DNA extraction from paraffin-embedded tissue specimens. All clinical data and tumor specimens were obtained from the Konkuk University Hospital (Korea) between July 2006 and December 2008. The results and clinical responses to EGFR‑tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) were compared. Overall, EGFR mutation-positive rate was 26.7% (54/202). Activating EGFR mutations were observed more frequently in female (52.1 vs. 13.0%), non‑smoking (47.8 vs. 15.8%) and adenocarcinoma (35.2 vs. 5.2%) patients. However, significant numbers of EGFR mutation-positive patients were identified as male, former or current smokers and non-adenocarcinoma patients. The combinations of favorable clinicopathological factors, including female, non‑smoking and adenocarcinoma, were not identified to significantly increase the positive EGFR mutation rate (female, 52.1%; female and non-smoker, 52.6%; female, non-smoker and adenocarcinoma, 51.9%). The present findings indicate that EGFR mutation analysis is a highly useful method for the prediction of response to EGFR-TKI and the use of favorable clinicopathological factors to perform this analysis is not suitable. Exon 19 deletion was the most common mutation (63.6%) and exon 21 L858R substitution was measured at 32.7%. The exon 20 T790M mutation was identified in 1 patient prior to EGFR-TKI treatment. EGFR mutation status is associated with response to EGFR-TKI and the overall response rate in patients who have the activating EGFR mutation was 82.4 vs. 5.9% in patients with a wild‑type EGFR. The present study demonstrates that EGFR mutations analyzed by the pyrosequencing method are well correlated with clinicopathological parameters and that this method may be useful in the clinical practice.
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Kim HJ, Oh SY, Kim WS, Kim SJ, Yoo GH, Kim WD and Lee KY: Clinical investigation of EGFR mutation detection by pyrosequencing in lung cancer patients. Oncol Lett 5: 271-276, 2013.
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Kim, H.J., Oh, S.Y., Kim, W.S., Kim, S.J., Yoo, G.H., Kim, W.D., & Lee, K.Y. (2013). Clinical investigation of EGFR mutation detection by pyrosequencing in lung cancer patients. Oncology Letters, 5, 271-276. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2012.950
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Kim, H. J., Oh, S. Y., Kim, W. S., Kim, S. J., Yoo, G. H., Kim, W. D., Lee, K. Y."Clinical investigation of EGFR mutation detection by pyrosequencing in lung cancer patients". Oncology Letters 5.1 (2013): 271-276.
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Kim, H. J., Oh, S. Y., Kim, W. S., Kim, S. J., Yoo, G. H., Kim, W. D., Lee, K. Y."Clinical investigation of EGFR mutation detection by pyrosequencing in lung cancer patients". Oncology Letters 5, no. 1 (2013): 271-276. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2012.950
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Kim HJ, Oh SY, Kim WS, Kim SJ, Yoo GH, Kim WD and Lee KY: Clinical investigation of EGFR mutation detection by pyrosequencing in lung cancer patients. Oncol Lett 5: 271-276, 2013.
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Kim, H.J., Oh, S.Y., Kim, W.S., Kim, S.J., Yoo, G.H., Kim, W.D., & Lee, K.Y. (2013). Clinical investigation of EGFR mutation detection by pyrosequencing in lung cancer patients. Oncology Letters, 5, 271-276. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2012.950
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Kim, H. J., Oh, S. Y., Kim, W. S., Kim, S. J., Yoo, G. H., Kim, W. D., Lee, K. Y."Clinical investigation of EGFR mutation detection by pyrosequencing in lung cancer patients". Oncology Letters 5.1 (2013): 271-276.
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Kim, H. J., Oh, S. Y., Kim, W. S., Kim, S. J., Yoo, G. H., Kim, W. D., Lee, K. Y."Clinical investigation of EGFR mutation detection by pyrosequencing in lung cancer patients". Oncology Letters 5, no. 1 (2013): 271-276. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2012.950
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