282Background: Large scale, retrospective, sequencing projects have identified well-defined subtypes of PDAC, but therapeutic paradigms remain unchanged. We hypothesized that genomic alterations associated with PDAC in young adults (YA, age… Click to show full abstract
282Background: Large scale, retrospective, sequencing projects have identified well-defined subtypes of PDAC, but therapeutic paradigms remain unchanged. We hypothesized that genomic alterations associated with PDAC in young adults (YA, age 50) to identify an enrichment of targetable alterations. Methods: DNA was extracted from formalin fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) PDAC clinical specimens and comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) was performed on hybrid-capture, adaptor ligation based libraries to a mean coverage depth of > 600 for up to 315 genes plus 47 introns from 19 genes frequently rearranged in cancer. Results: CGP was performed on 1533 FFPE PDAC specimens, 566 (36.9%) were from the primary tumor, 967 (63.1%) from metastatic sites. Median age at diagnosis was 63 years (yrs), 180 (11.7%) were YA. KRAS mutations were identified in 78.7 of YA and 87.7% of OA. The differentially altered genes between the two groups were KRAS (p = 0.0...
               
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