Table 2.

The Frequency of EGFR Mutations Reported from the Regions of North-Africa and the Middle East

	Frequency (%)	N	Histology	Method	Study
North Africa
Algeria	39.6	58	NSCLC	Sanger	This study
Morocco	21	120	ADC	TaqMan & Sanger	Errihani et al.
Tunisia	5.5	73	ADC	Sanger	Dhieb et al.
	44	50	ADC	IHC	Mraihi et al.
	11.5	26	ADC	ARMS/Scorpion	Arfaoui et al.
Middle East
Gulf region	28.7	230	NSCLC	qPCR	Jazieh et al.
Levant region	15.6	205	ADC	ARMS/Scorpion	Tfayli et al.
Lebanon	11.9	201	Non-SqCC	ARMS/Scorpion	Naderi et al.
	8.5	106	ADC	ARMS/Scorpion	Fakhruddin et al.
Turkey	16.7	959	NSCLC	qPCR	Tezel et al.
	32.3	300	ADC	Pyrosequencing	Demiray et al.
	42.6	48	NSCLC	Sanger	Unal et al.

ARMS, Amplification-refractory mutation system; IHC, Immunohistochemistry; qPCR, Quantitative PCR.