Gastric cardiac carcinomas involving the esophagus are more adequately staged as gastric cancers by the 7th edition of the American Joint Commission on Cancer Staging System
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Shi, Jiong
Feng, Anning
Fan, Xiangshan
Zhang, Lihua
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Huang, Qin, Jiong Shi, Anning Feng, Xiangshan Fan, Lihua Zhang, Hiroshi Mashimo, Daniel Cohen, and Gregory Lauwers. 2010. “Gastric Cardiac Carcinomas Involving the Esophagus Are More Adequately Staged as Gastric Cancers by the 7th Edition of the American Joint Commission on Cancer Staging System.” Modern Pathology 24 (1) (September 17): 138–146. doi:10.1038/modpathol.2010.183.Abstract
Background: The genetics of advanced biliary tract cancers (BTC), which encompass intra- and extra-hepatic cholangiocarcinomas as well as gallbladder carcinomas, are heterogeneous and remain to be fully defined. Methods: To better characterize mutations in established known oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes we tested a mass spectrometric based platform to interrogate common cancer associated mutations across a panel of 77 formalin fixed paraffin embedded archived BTC cases. Results: Mutations among three genes, KRAS, NRAS and PIK3CA were confirmed in this cohort. Activating mutations in PIK3CA were identified exclusively in GBC (4/32, 12.5%). KRAS mutations were identified in 3 (13%) intra-hepatic cholangiocarcinomas and 1 (33%) perihillar cholangiocarcinoma but were not identified in gallbladder carcinomas and extra-hepatic cholangiocarcinoma. Conclusions: The presence of activating mutations in PIK3CA specifically in GBC has clinical implications in both the diagnosis of this cancer type, as well as the potential utility of targeted therapies such as PI3 kinase inhibitors.Citable link to this page
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