We conducted an analysis of the effect of MET expression and MET genomic aberrations on the outcome of patients with advanced or metastatic pulmonary adenocarcinomas prospectively enrolled in an institutional precision oncology program.
FISH assessment showed that of the 35 adenocarcinoma samples, 10 patients (29%) exhibited high polysomy (5 copies≦mean MET per cell) and 1 patient (3%) exhibited amplification (2≦MET gene (red)/CEP7q (green) per cell).
To investigate metastasis associated in colon cancer 1 (MACC1) and MET expression in colorectal adenoma, Tis, early-stage invasive (T1 and T2), and advanced adenocarcinoma with liver metastasis using immunohistochemistry.
The aim of this study was to compare MET expression/gene copy number in a Caucasian population of NSCLC patients.We analysed 201 NSCLC, with 141 adenocarcinomas classified according to 2011 IASLC recommendations, for MET expression by immunohistochemistry (IHC) and gene copy number (GCN) by silver in situ hybridisation (SISH) on tissue microarrays.
In conclusion, these results strongly suggest that tpr-met activation does not play a role in Caucasian gastric carcinogenesis, while overexpression of the c-met gene occurs in the majority of Caucasian gastric adenocarcinomas.
MET amplification was associated with adenocarcinomas (P = 0.007), high-grade tumors (P = 0.003), more sites of metastasis, higher BRAF mutation, and PTEN loss (all P < 0.05).
The lung cancer subtypes share some genetic variations such as the dysfunction of tumor suppressor gene TP53, and also harbor specific variations of their own such as MET in ADC, FGFR1 and FGFR3 in SCC and MYC in SCLC.
Sanchez-Vega and colleagues prospectively demonstrate that both intra- and intertumoral differential expression of the receptor tyrosine kinases HER2, EGFR, and MET dictate sensitivity to the pan-HER inhibitor afatinib in a phase II trial of trastuzumab-refractory <i>HER2</i>-amplified gastroesophageal adenocarcinomas.
In the subgroup of adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma patients with stage IIA-IIIB disease, the prognostic impact of c-MET was significant in the univariate analysis (HR = 0.60, 95% CI: 0.43-0.83).
There was a clear relationship between c-met protein staining and higher grade adenocarcinomas (p < 0.001). c-met protein is frequently detected in PIN and higher grade prostate cancers; future studies should evaluate the biological significance of these findings.
MET exon 14 alterations, which result in increased MET protein levels due to disrupted ubiquitin-mediated degradation, occur at a prevalence of around 3% in adenocarcinomas and around 2% in other lung neoplasms, making them attractive targets for the treatment of lung cancer.
Multivariate analysis showed SDC (p = .002) to be the strongest predictor of lymph node metastasis, followed by MET aberration (p = .009), T3/T4 classification (p = .017), PTEN deletion (p = .042), and adenocarcinoma not otherwise specified (NOS; p = .047).