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  2. Infantile Fibrosarcoma With NTRK3-ETV6 Fusion Successfully Treated With the Tropomyosin-Related Kinase Inhibitor LOXO-101

Infantile Fibrosarcoma With NTRK3-ETV6 Fusion Successfully Treated With the Tropomyosin-Related Kinase Inhibitor LOXO-101

  • Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2016 Aug;63(8):1468-70. doi: 10.1002/pbc.26026.
Ramamoorthy Nagasubramanian 1 Julie Wei 1 Paul Gordon 1 Jeff C Rastatter 2 Michael C Cox 3 Alberto Pappo 4
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Affiliations

  • 1 Nemours Children's Hospital, Orlando, Florida.
  • 2 Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
  • 3 Loxo Oncology Inc, South San Francisco, California.
  • 4 St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Abstract

Infantile fibrosarcoma (IFS) is a rare pediatric Cancer typically presenting in the first 2 years of life. Surgical resection is usually curative and chemotherapy is active against gross residual disease. However, when recurrences occur, therapeutic options are limited. We report a case of refractory IFS with constitutive activation of the tropomyosin-related kinase (Trk) signaling pathway from an ETS variant gene 6-neurotrophin 3 receptor gene (ETV6-NTRK3) gene fusion. The patient enrolled in a pediatric Phase 1 trial of LOXO-101, an experimental, highly selective inhibitor of Trk. The patient experienced a rapid, radiographic response, demonstrating the potential for LOXO-101 to provide benefit for IFS harboring NTRK gene fusions.

Keywords

ETV6-NTRK3; LOXO-101; gene fusion; infantile fibrosarcoma; tropomyosin-related kinase (TRK).

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