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SUBMITTER: Lohinai Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5209707 | biostudies-other | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Lohinai Zoltan Z Klikovits Thomas T Moldvay Judit J Ostoros Gyula G Raso Erzsebet E Timar Jozsef J Fabian Katalin K Kovalszky Ilona I Kenessey István I Aigner Clemens C Renyi-Vamos Ferenc F Klepetko Walter W Dome Balazs B Hegedus Balazs B
Scientific reports 20170104
Current guidelines lack comprehensive information on the metastatic site-specific role of KRAS mutation in lung adenocarcinoma (LADC). We investigated the effect of KRAS mutation on overall survival (OS) in this setting. In our retrospective study, 500 consecutive Caucasian metastatic LADC patients with known KRAS mutational status were analyzed after excluding 32 patients with EGFR mutations. KRAS mutation incidence was 28.6%. The most frequent metastatic sites were lung (45.6%), bone (26.2%), ...[more]