The treatment scenario of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) has been rapidly enriched with new chemotherapy combinations and biological agents that lead to a remarkable improvement in patients’ outcome. Kinase gene fusions account for less than 1% of mCRC overall but are enriched in patients with high microsatellite instability, RAS/BRAF wild-type colorectal cancer. mCRC patients harboring such alterations show a poor prognosis with standard treatments that could be reversed by adopting novel therapeutic strategies. Moving forward to a positive selection of mCRC patients suitable for targeted therapy in the era of personalized medicine, actionable gene fusions, although rare, represent a peculiar opportunity to disrupt a tumor alteration to achieve therapeutic goal. Here we summarize the current knowledge on potentially actionable gene fusions in colorectal cancer available from retrospective experiences and promising preliminary results of new basket trials.

The landscape of actionable gene fusions in colorectal cancer / F. Pagani, G. Randon, V. Guarini, A. Raimondi, M. Prisciandaro, R. Lobefaro, M. Di Bartolomeo, G. Sozzi, F. de Braud, P. Gasparini, F. Pietrantonio. - In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES. - ISSN 1661-6596. - 20:21(2019 Nov). [10.3390/ijms20215319]

The landscape of actionable gene fusions in colorectal cancer

G. Randon
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M. Prisciandaro;R. Lobefaro;F. de Braud;F. Pietrantonio
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2019

Abstract

The treatment scenario of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) has been rapidly enriched with new chemotherapy combinations and biological agents that lead to a remarkable improvement in patients’ outcome. Kinase gene fusions account for less than 1% of mCRC overall but are enriched in patients with high microsatellite instability, RAS/BRAF wild-type colorectal cancer. mCRC patients harboring such alterations show a poor prognosis with standard treatments that could be reversed by adopting novel therapeutic strategies. Moving forward to a positive selection of mCRC patients suitable for targeted therapy in the era of personalized medicine, actionable gene fusions, although rare, represent a peculiar opportunity to disrupt a tumor alteration to achieve therapeutic goal. Here we summarize the current knowledge on potentially actionable gene fusions in colorectal cancer available from retrospective experiences and promising preliminary results of new basket trials.
Biomarker; Colorectal cancer; Gene fusions; Translocation
Settore MED/06 - Oncologia Medica
nov-2019
ott-2019
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