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Tier 2
ERBB2
Variants
ERBB2 G776delinsVC
Primary Sites
Lung
Tumor Types
Adenocarcinoma
Interpretation

ERBB2 (also HER2) is a transmembrane receptor that is a member of the ERBB family of receptor tyrosine kinases. ERBB2 is altered by amplification and/or overexpression in various cancers, most frequently in breast, esophagogastric and endometrial cancers. Somatic mutations in ERBB2 have been identified in a series of tumors including lobular breast, lung adenocarcinoma, and gastric cancers, among others, with recurrent hotspot alterations in both the extracellular and kinase domains. Preclinical and clinical studies have demonstrated that many of these mutations are transforming and sensitive to FDA-approved ERBB targeted therapies, including trastuzumab, ado-trastuzumab emtansine, lapatinib, and pertuzumab. The ERBB2 p.G776delinsVC variant is one of the in-frame insertions in exon 20 of ERBB2 that have been described in lung adenocarcinoma. Overall, in-frame ERRB2 insertions in exon 20 have been reported in approximately 6% of cases of lung adenocarcinoma which are negative for EGFR, KRAS, ALK alterations and these variants are more frequent in patients who were never-smokers. In vitro studies have shown that this specific variant is associated with constitutive kinase activation and is associated with sensitivity to some ERBB2 inhibitors and therefore, it may represent a targetable mutation in some clinical settings. Please refer to clinicaltrials.gov for additional information. Recommend correlation with other clinical and laboratory findings.

Citations
  1. Arcila ME, Chaft JE, Nafa K, Roy-Chowdhuri S, Lau C, Zaidinski M, Paik PK, Zakowski MF, Kris MG, Ladanyi M. Prevalence, clinicopathologic associations, and molecular spectrum of ERBB2 (HER2) tyrosine kinase mutations in lung adenocarcinomas. Clin Cancer Res. 2012 Sep 15;18(18):4910-8.
  2. Shimamura T, Ji H, Minami Y, Thomas RK, Lowell AM, Shah K, Greulich H, Glatt KA, Meyerson M, Shapiro GI, Wong KK. Non-small-cell lung cancer and Ba/F3 transformed cells harboring the ERBB2 G776insV_G/C mutation are sensitive to the dual-specific epidermal growth factor receptor and ERBB2 inhibitor HKI-272. Cancer Res. 2006 Jul 1;66(13):6487-91
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  4. Cho J, Ambrogio L, Liao R, Imielinski M, Banerji S, Berger AH, Lawrence MS, Zhang J, Pho NH, Walker SR, Winckler W, Getz G, Frank D, Hahn WC, Eck MJ, Mani DR, Jaffe JD, Carr SA, Wong KK, Meyerson M. Functional analysis of receptor tyrosine kinase mutations in lung cancer identifies oncogenic extracellular domain mutations of ERBB2. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Sep 4;109(36):14476-81.
  5. Bose R, Kavuri SM, Searleman AC, Shen W, Shen D, Koboldt DC, Monsey J, Goel N,Aronson AB, Li S, Ma CX, Ding L, Mardis ER, Ellis MJ. Activating HER2 mutations in HER2 gene amplification negative breast cancer. Cancer Discov. 2013 Feb;3(2):224-37.
  6. Giordano SH, Temin S, Kirshner JJ, Chandarlapaty S, Crews JR, Davidson NE,
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  8. Comprehensive TCGA PanCanAtlas (https://gdc.cancer.gov/about data/publications/pancanatlas)
Last updated: 2019-01-22 18:40:47 UTC
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