Conversion from Positive to Negative EGFR Mutation due to Clonal Selection during Long-Term Treatment with Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor-Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors: A Case Report
A 77-year-old woman with postoperative recurrent non-small cell lung adenocarcinoma, which exhibited an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) L858R mutation, was treated with gefitinib and erlotinib. Seven years after the start of treatment, the patient experienced a recurrence of malignant pleural effusion. However, 3 different genetic tests revealed that the lung adenocarcinoma cells in the pleural effusion had lost EGFR L858R mutation, suggesting that long-term treatment with EGFR-tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) converted EGFR mutation from positive to negative. The negative conversion of EGFR mutation as a mechanism of acquired resistance to EGFR-TKIs is considered rare and needs to be further investigated.
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Conversion from Positive to Negative EGFR Mutation due to Clonal Selection during Long-Term Treatment with Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor-Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors: A Case Report ; volume:14 ; number:3 ; year:2021 ; pages:1447-1453 ; extent:7
Case reports in oncology ; 14, Heft 3 (2021), 1447-1453 (gesamt 7)
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Ueda, Masatomo
Namba, Masashi
Tokumo, Kentaro
Senoo, Tadashi
Okamoto, Wataru
Yamauchi, Masami
Hattori, Noboru
Sugiyama, Kazuhiko
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10.1159/000518246
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022011223431951082544
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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15.08.2025, 7:40 AM CEST
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Associated
- Ueda, Masatomo
- Namba, Masashi
- Tokumo, Kentaro
- Senoo, Tadashi
- Okamoto, Wataru
- Yamauchi, Masami
- Hattori, Noboru
- Sugiyama, Kazuhiko