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Another possibility is that the erlotinib-treated tumors have mutations in other RAS genes, since a minority of RAS mutations in lung cancer have been reported to occur in N- or HRAS [5,6].
The study identified 189 genes that were differentially expressed in at least two tumors, and this gene set was also able to distinguish between CC and Chr tumor types.
Tumors.
To find out whether KRAS mutations could help to predict which patients would respond to gefitinib or erlotinib, the researchers looked for mutations in EGFR and KRAS genes in 60 tumors for which sensitivity to either drug was known.
This gene has been shown to be hypermethylated in tumors arising from breast-ovarian cancer syndrome [ 32 ] . Although we detected complete promoter methylation of BRCA1 gene in only 6% of primary tumors, other mechanisms that inactivate this gene might exist.