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**Exon 19 deletion. | **Exon 19 deletion. | ||
**Exon 21 L858R. | **Exon 21 L858R. | ||
***Natural history of mutation is suspected to have a better prognosis vs. wild-type.<ref>URL: [http://www.mycancergenome.org/mutation.php?dz=nsclc&gene=egfr&code=l858r http://www.mycancergenome.org/mutation.php?dz=nsclc&gene=egfr&code=l858r]. Accessed on: 27 April 2012.</ref> | |||
**KRAS mutations are absent, i.e. ''wild-type KRAS''.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Pao | first1 = W. | last2 = Wang | first2 = TY. | last3 = Riely | first3 = GJ. | last4 = Miller | first4 = VA. | last5 = Pan | first5 = Q. | last6 = Ladanyi | first6 = M. | last7 = Zakowski | first7 = MF. | last8 = Heelan | first8 = RT. | last9 = Kris | first9 = MG. | title = KRAS mutations and primary resistance of lung adenocarcinomas to gefitinib or erlotinib. | journal = PLoS Med | volume = 2 | issue = 1 | pages = e17 | month = Jan | year = 2005 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020017 | PMID = 15696205 }}</ref> | **KRAS mutations are absent, i.e. ''wild-type KRAS''.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Pao | first1 = W. | last2 = Wang | first2 = TY. | last3 = Riely | first3 = GJ. | last4 = Miller | first4 = VA. | last5 = Pan | first5 = Q. | last6 = Ladanyi | first6 = M. | last7 = Zakowski | first7 = MF. | last8 = Heelan | first8 = RT. | last9 = Kris | first9 = MG. | title = KRAS mutations and primary resistance of lung adenocarcinomas to gefitinib or erlotinib. | journal = PLoS Med | volume = 2 | issue = 1 | pages = e17 | month = Jan | year = 2005 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020017 | PMID = 15696205 }}</ref> | ||
*ALK [[chromosomal translocation]] (inv(2)(p21p23) -- EML4-ALK fusion).<ref name=pmid21245935>{{Cite journal | last1 = Li | first1 = Y. | last2 = Ye | first2 = X. | last3 = Liu | first3 = J. | last4 = Zha | first4 = J. | last5 = Pei | first5 = L. | title = Evaluation of EML4-ALK fusion proteins in non-small cell lung cancer using small molecule inhibitors. | journal = Neoplasia | volume = 13 | issue = 1 | pages = 1-11 | month = Jan | year = 2011 | doi = | PMID = 21245935 }}</ref> | *ALK [[chromosomal translocation]] (inv(2)(p21p23) -- EML4-ALK fusion).<ref name=pmid21245935>{{Cite journal | last1 = Li | first1 = Y. | last2 = Ye | first2 = X. | last3 = Liu | first3 = J. | last4 = Zha | first4 = J. | last5 = Pei | first5 = L. | title = Evaluation of EML4-ALK fusion proteins in non-small cell lung cancer using small molecule inhibitors. | journal = Neoplasia | volume = 13 | issue = 1 | pages = 1-11 | month = Jan | year = 2011 | doi = | PMID = 21245935 }}</ref> | ||