PMID: 33194065Nov 17, 2020Paper

Molecular diagnosis and clinical outcome of a lung cancer patient with TP53 -E285K mutated Li-Fraumeni syndrome harboring a somatic EGFR -KDD mutation

American Journal of Translational Research
Dafu YangZhaoxia Dai

Abstract

Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) is an autosomal dominant cancer predisposition, mostly caused by germline TP53 mutations. Lung adenocarcinoma (ADC) has been identified as the most frequent LFS-related cancer outside the common LFS core spectrum. EGFR-kinase domain duplication (KDD) is rare in lung cancer and the effective therapy for LFS patients with EGFR-KDD mutated ADC is unclear. This study reports the first case of a TP53-mutated LFS patient with confirmed family history, developing advanced lung ADC harboring EGFR-KDD. The patient's lung tumor, lymph nodes, liquid biopsies and germline control sample at various disease stages were subjected to next-generation sequencing (NGS). The TP53 germline mutation was confirmed using the peripheral blood of the patient's relatives by Sanger sequencing. A rare EGFR-KDD somatic mutation that was missed in the routine EGFR hotspots test, and a TP53-E285K temperature-sensitive germline mutation were identified by NGS. The patient was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006 and her family cancer history review revealed that seven out of 13 relatives were diagnosed or died from LFS-spectrum cancers before the age of 45 years. Three of the six relatives were positive for the TP53-E285K germline mu...Continue Reading

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