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. 2018 Jan:71:8-19.
doi: 10.1016/j.humpath.2017.08.002. Epub 2017 Aug 17.

Pulmonary invasive mucinous adenocarcinoma and mixed invasive mucinous/nonmucinous adenocarcinoma-a clinicopathological and molecular genetic study with survival analysis

Jennifer M Boland  1 , Joseph J Maleszewski  2 , Jason A Wampfler  3 , Jesse S Voss  2 , Benjamin R Kipp  2 , Ping Yang  3 , Eunhee S Yi  2
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Pulmonary invasive mucinous adenocarcinoma and mixed invasive mucinous/nonmucinous adenocarcinoma-a clinicopathological and molecular genetic study with survival analysis

Jennifer M Boland et al. Hum Pathol. 2018 Jan.

Abstract

Invasive mucinous adenocarcinoma is a variant of lung adenocarcinoma, which may be mixed with nonmucinous adenocarcinoma. KRAS mutations are common, but other clinical and genetic features are not clearly established. Lung adenocarcinomas (n=760) with ≥5 years of follow-up comprised 3 nonoverlapping cohorts for survival analysis. Mucinous tumors were evaluated with Ion AmpliSeq Cancer Hotspot Panel v2. Cases without detected mutations were tested for ALK and ROS1 and by OncoScan array. Fifty-seven invasive mucinous adenocarcinomas and 54 mixed mucinous/nonmucinous adenocarcinomas were identified. Mucinous tumors constituted 27 of 218 nonselected patients (12.4%), 23 of 268 never-smokers (8.6%), and 61 of 274 in a smokers cohort enriched for lepidic growth (22.3%). In the lepidic-enriched smokers, patients with mucinous tumors experienced worse overall survival (P=.006) and progression-free survival (P=.024), which persisted on multivariable analysis. No survival differences were observed in the other cohorts. KRAS mutations were common (76% of invasive mucinous adenocarcinomas, 68% of mixed mucinous/nonmucinous), and 38% of KRAS mutations occurred with other mutations, especially STK11. Six cases had potentially targetable mutations (3 ALK, 2 EGFR, 1 BRAF V600E). All ALK-rearranged tumors were mixed mucinous/nonmucinous. Four of 6 cases without hotspot mutations showed complex copy number/structural abnormalities. Pulmonary invasive mucinous adenocarcinomas and mixed nonmucinous/mucinous adenocarcinomas are clinically and genetically similar, except for a higher rate of ALK rearrangement in mixed tumors. Survival for mucinous tumors is similar to that for nonmucinous tumors in a nonselected cohort, although worse survival was seen in a cohort of smokers enriched for lepidic growth.

Keywords: KRAS; Mucinous adenocarcinoma; Mutations; Never smoker; STK11; Survival.

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