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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 11.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2014 Oct 17;13(11):828–851. doi: 10.1038/nrd4389

Table 1.

Frequency of RAS mutations in human cancers

Cancer % KRAS % NRAS % HRAS % All RAS
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma 97.7 0.0 0.0 97.7
Colorectal adenocarcinoma 44.7 7.5 0.0 52.2
Multiple myeloma 22.8 19.9 0.0 42.6
Lung adenocarcinoma 30.9 0.9 0.3 32.2
Skin cutaneous melanoma 0.8 27.6 1.0 29.4
Uterine corpus endometrioid carcinoma 21.4 3.6 0.4 24.6
Uterine carcinosarcoma 12.3 1.8 0.0 14.0
Thyroid carcinoma 1.0 8.5 3.5 13.0
Stomach adenocarcinoma 11.4 0.9 0.0 12.3
Acute myeloid leukaemia 3.1 6.7 1.6 11.4
Bladder urothelial carcinoma 3.1 1.4 5.9 10.6
Cervical adenocarcinoma 8.3 0.0 0.0 8.3
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma 0.5 0.3 4.7 5.5
Gastric carcinoma 4.0 1.0 0.0 5.0
Esophageal adenocarcinoma 4.1 0.0 0.7 4.8
Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia 1.9 2.5 0.0 4.4
Lung squamous cell carcinoma 2.2 0.0 2.2 4.4
Small cell lung carcinoma 1.4 0.0 1.4 2.8
Renal papillary cell carcinoma 1.8 0.0 0.0 1.8
Adenoid cystic carcinoma 0.0 0.0 1.7 1.7
Medulloblastoma & pilocytic astrocytoma 1.0 0.5 0.0 1.6
Breast invasive carcinoma 0.7 0.4 0.3 1.4
Hepatocellular carcinoma 0.8 0.4 0.0 1.4
Cervical squamous cell carcinoma 1.3 0.0 0.0 1.3
Ovarian serous adenocarcinoma 0.6 0.6 0.0 1.3
Adrenocortical carcinoma 1.1 0.0 0.0 1.1
Neuroblastoma 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.8
Brain lower grade glioma 0.5 0.5 0.0 0.7
Prostate adenocarcinoma 0.3 0.0 0.3 0.7
Glioblastoma multiforme 0.7 0.0 0.0 0.7
Medulloblastoma 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.4
Kidney renal clear cell carcinoma 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4
Esophageal adenocarcinoma 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Osteosarcoma (paediatric) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Rhabdoid tumours 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Sarcoma 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Small intestine neuroendocrine tumours 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Compiled from references or databases referred to in Supplementary Table 1