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  • Undifferentiated Carcinoma ...
    Hrudka, Jan; Kalinová, Markéta; Ciprová, Vanda; Moravcová, Jana; Dvořák, Radim; Matěj, Radoslav

    International journal of molecular sciences, 03/2024, Letnik: 25, Številka: 6
    Journal Article

    Undifferentiated carcinoma with osteoclast-like giant cells (UCOGC) of the pancreas is a rare malignancy regarded as a subvariant of pancreatic ductal carcinoma (PDAC) characterized by variable prognosis. UCOGC shows a strikingly similar spectrum of oncogenic DNA mutations to PDAC. In the current work, we analyzed the landscape of somatic mutations in a set of 13 UCOGC cases via next-generation sequencing (NGS). We detected a spectrum of pathogenic or likely pathogenic mutations similar to those observed in PDAC following previously published results (10 , 9 , 4 , and 1 , , , , , , , , and ). Our results support the theory that UCOGC is a variant of PDAC, despite its unique morphology; however, a UCOGC-specific genomic signature as well as predictive markers remain mainly unknown. Programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) status remains an important predictive marker based on previous studies.