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CASE REPORT article

Front. Pharmacol.
Sec. Pharmacology of Anti-Cancer Drugs
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fphar.2024.1433894
This article is part of the Research Topic Drug Discovery in Cancer Research: Success Stories and Open Challenges View all 20 articles

Treatment with ensartinib shows good response to SQSTM1-ALK fusion in lung adenocarcinoma

Provisionally accepted
PANDENG WANG PANDENG WANG 1ZHUO JIANG ZHUO JIANG 2Jianji Guo Jianji Guo 1*Tao Liu Tao Liu 1*Zhen Liu Zhen Liu 2*Dongdong Wang Dongdong Wang 2*Honglin Li Honglin Li 2*
  • 1 First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China
  • 2 Other, Shanghai, China

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    Lung cancer is a prevalent malignancy, with the rearrangement of the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene being responsible for a minority of cases of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).NSCLC patients harboring ALK fusion proteins demonstrate sensitivity to ALK tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs).In this report, we describe the case of a female patient with metastatic lung adenocarcinoma, identified through NGS to carry a rare inverted SQSTM1-ALK (S5, A20) fusion.The patient received ensartinib as first-line therapy, resulting in a partial response (PR).At the time of publication, the patient's condition remained favorable.We have, for the first time, identified the presence of SQSTM1-ALK fusion in pericardial effusion, with the favorable response to ensartinib validating the oncogenic potential of SQSTM1-ALK fusion.The substantial advancements and extensive utilization of NGS have facilitated the identification of rare fusion variants.

    Keywords: SQSTM1-ALK, rearrangement, lung cancer, targeted therapy, ensartinib

    Received: 16 May 2024; Accepted: 14 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 WANG, JIANG, Guo, Liu, Liu, Wang and Li. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Jianji Guo, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China
    Tao Liu, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China
    Zhen Liu, Other, Shanghai, China
    Dongdong Wang, Other, Shanghai, China
    Honglin Li, Other, Shanghai, China

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