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- Title
Intra- and Inter-Tumoral Homogeneity of BRAF<sup>V600E</sup> Mutations in Melanoma Tumors.
- Authors
Riveiro-Falkenbach, Erica; Villanueva, Cándida A; Garrido, María C; Ruano, Yolanda; García-Martín, Rosa M; Godoy, Elena; Ortiz-Romero, Pablo L; Ríos-Martín, Juan J; Santos-Briz, Angel; Rodríguez-Peralto, José L
- Abstract
The era of targeted therapy has introduced a new therapeutic perspective for melanoma patients. Treatment with BRAFV600 inhibitors has improved overall and disease-free survival in metastatic melanoma patients whose tumors harbor BRAFV600 mutations. Although the BRAFV600E mutation appears to have a critical role in tumor initiation, its expression during tumor progression remains controversial. In fact, various authors claim that BRAFV600E heterogeneity is evident in melanoma tumors. Herein, we investigated the pattern of BRAFV600E expression in matched primary and metastatic samples from 140 patients. Using a combination of real-time PCR and immunohistochemical analyses, we demonstrated that BRAFV600E expression is homogeneous in melanoma tumors and hypothesized that the heterogeneity described by others might be attributable to technical issues when molecular methods are used. We also demonstrated the high efficiency of the anti-BRAFV600E VE1 antibody for the detection of BRAFV600E mutations in melanoma tumors.
- Subjects
MELANOMA; BRAF genes; TUMORS; CANCER invasiveness; SKIN cancer; POLYMERASE chain reaction; PATIENTS
- Publication
Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 2015, Vol 135, Issue 12, p3078
- ISSN
0022-202X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/jid.2015.229