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Pancreatic adenocarcinomas without KRAS, TP53, CDKN2A and SMAD4 mutations and CDKN2A/CDKN2B copy number alterations: a review of the genomic landscape to unveil therapeutic avenues

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Voutsadakis, Ioannis A., Digklia, Antonia·2023·Chinese Clinical Oncology

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BACKGROUND: Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is one of the cancers with the worst prognosis. The current treatment paradigm based on combination chemotherapy has improved survival over the last decade, but the disease is still fatal in most cases. New therapies exploiting the increasing understanding of the molecular pathology of the disease are needed. Although the disease presents with few recurrent molecular alterations, these represent opportunities for targeted treatments to be developed. However, a minority of cases are devoid of these common alterations. A description of the molecular landscape of this sub-set of pancreatic adenocarcinoma could uncover other molecular lesions present in them that could serve as therapeutic targets. METHODS: The sub-set of pancreatic cancers without the common alterations in KRAS, TP53, CDKN2A and SMAD4 has been examined from published and publicly available pancreatic cancer cohorts for determination of their clinical and molecular characteristics. The cBioportal platform was used for this evaluation and the OncoKB knowledgebase was used for determination of the functional significance of discovered mutations. RESULTS: About 5% to 10% of pancreatic adenocarcinomas present without the usual molecular alterations that characterize the disease. These cases tend to be genomically stable and have low prevalence of microsatellite or chromosome instability. Molecular alterations that are observed in pancreatic cancers in lower frequencies than the four most prevalent alterations, such as DNA Damage Response and epigenetic modifier mutations, are still observed in the sub-set without the common alterations and may be pathogenically relevant. CONCLUSIONS: Despite the absence of most frequent pancreatic cancer alterations in a sub-set of pancreatic adenocarcinomas, this sub-set possesses other alterations in frequencies similar to the rest of pancreatic cancers. Putative targeting of alterations present is discussed and can serve as the basis for targeted therapies development.

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  • Tumors with unique molecular profiles lacking common mutations demonstrate improved overall survival.

    “Those tumors with unique molecular profiles lacking common mutations demonstrate improved overall survival, suggesting therapeutic relevance [28].”
  • 5-10% of pancreatic cancers lack common mutations (KRAS, TP53, SMAD4, CDKN2A, CDKN2B) and exhibit diverse mutations, including therapeutic target alterations.

    “However, 5–10% of pancreatic cancers lack common mutations (KRAS, TP53, SMAD4, CDKN2A, CDKN2B), exhibiting diverse mutations, including therapeutic target alterations.”

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Authors
Voutsadakis, I. A., & Digklia, A.
Affiliations
  • Sault Area Hospital (CA)
  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CH)
Corresponding author
Voutsadakis, Ioannis A.
Venue
Chinese Clinical Oncology
Published
2023-02
Volume
12
Issue
1
Pages
2-2
ISSN
  • 2304-3865 (ISSN-L)
  • 2304-3873
OpenAlex
W4320481574
Cited by
16
References
60
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 3
FWCI
0.52
Type
journal article
Language
en
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cc-by-nc-nd
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  • Chinese Clinical Oncology (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • SERVAL (Université de Lausanne) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • IRIS (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Chromatin Remodeling and Cancer
Keywords
pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, KRAS wild-type, wild-type p53, genomic landscape, microsatellite instability, chromosomal instability, targeted therapy, molecular alterations
MeSH terms
Adenocarcinoma, Humans, Mutation, Pancreatic Neoplasms, Biomarkers, Tumor, Tumor Suppressor Protein p53, Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras), Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p16, Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal, Genomics, Smad4 Protein, DNA Copy Number Variations

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