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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pharmacol Ther. 2015 Jul 21;154:67–77. doi: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2015.07.002

Table 2.

Disease Factors Associated with Sensitivity Factors Associated with Resistance
Head and neck cancer Accelerated radiation fractionation
Acneiform rash (cetuximab)
Oropharynx primary
HPV negative tumor
Smoker
Non-oropharynx primary
Nonsmall cell lung cancer EGFR mutation: exon 19 and 12 (L858R, L861), exon 18 (G719X, G719), exon 20 (S7681)
KRAS wild type
EGFR overexpression
Non-squamous cell histology
Non-smoker
Asian heritage
Female sex
EGFR T790M mutation
EGFR exon 20 insertion
KRAS mutation
Squamous cell carcinoma
MET amplification/overexpression
Epithelial to mesenchymal transition
Colorectal cancer RAS wild type
BRAF wild type
Increased EGFR gene copy number
KRAS mutation
NRAS mutation
BRAF mutation
MET amplification/overexpression
HER2 amplification/overexpression
EGFR mutation in cetuximab binding domain (rare)