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‹ Tue · 7 Jul 2026
Promising but preliminary

Presenting features and outcomes to standard systemic therapies in patients with MTAP-deleted advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

PURPOSE: Methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (MTAP) is deleted in 13% of NSCLC, and MTAP two-copy deleted (MTAPdel) cancer cells are vulnerable to protein arginine methyltransferase 5 inhibitors being examined in trials. RESULTS: Compared to the MTAPwt cohort (n=307), the MTAPdel cohort (n=93) had more female patients (65.6% vs.

PURPOSE: Methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (MTAP) is deleted in 13% of NSCLC, and MTAP two-copy deleted (MTAPdel) cancer cells are vulnerable to protein arginine methyltransferase 5 inhibitors being examined in trials. RESULTS: Compared to the MTAPwt cohort (n=307), the MTAPdel cohort (n=93) had more female patients (65.6% vs.

What the study was

Study design
Cohort study
Sample size
307
Category
Genomics/Precision Medicine
Maturity
Exploratory
Journal
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research

Why it surfaced

Relevant Precision oncology and genomic medicine study (promising preliminary signal) meets standard-priority threshold.

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