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ReviewAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2025

EGFR: New Insights on Its Activation and Mutation in Tumor and Tumor Immunotherapy.

Yuanzhuo Gu, Hongchao He, Shilei Qiao, Yifan Shao, Lurong Wang, Zhengkui Zhang, Long Zhang, Fangfang Zhou

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Review in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. EGFR: New Insights on Its Activation and Mutation in Tumor and Tumor Immunotherapy.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Yuanzhuo GuDepartment of Gynecological Oncology, Women's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310006, China.
Hongchao HeThe First Affiliated Hospital, the Institutes of Biology and Medical Sciences, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215006, China.
Shilei QiaoThe First Affiliated Hospital, the Institutes of Biology and Medical Sciences, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215006, China.
Yifan ShaoThe First Affiliated Hospital, the Institutes of Biology and Medical Sciences, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215006, China.
Lurong WangThe First Affiliated Hospital, the Institutes of Biology and Medical Sciences, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215006, China.
Zhengkui ZhangThe First Affiliated Hospital, the Institutes of Biology and Medical Sciences, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215006, China.
Long ZhangLife Sciences Institute and State Key Laboratory of Transvascular Implantation Devices of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310009, China.
Fangfang ZhouDepartment of Gynecological Oncology, Women's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310006, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1870-7584

Funding

Chinese National Natural Science Funds 32125016Chinese National Natural Science Funds 32525002Chinese National Natural Science Funds 82371841Chinese National Natural Science Funds 82403247Chinese National Natural Science Funds T2321005Chinese National Natural Science Funds U24A20371Chinese National Natural Science Funds W2411011Jiangsu Province Dual-Innovation Talent Program JSSCBS20230276Jiangsu Province Fund for Excellent Young Scholars BK20240150Joint Project of Pinnacle Disciplinary Group from the Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing MedicalKey R&D Program of Zhejiang Province 2023C03044Key R&D Program of Zhejiang Province 2024C03142Ministry of Science and Technology of China 2021YFA1101000Ministry of Science and Technology of China 2022YFA1105200Ministry of Science and Technology of China 2023YFA1800200Ministry of Science and Technology of China 2024YFC2707400Suzhou Innovation and Entrepreneurship Leading Talent Program ZXL2022505Suzhou Innovation and Entrepreneurship Leading Talent Program ZXL2023206The Recruitment Program of Overseas Postdoctoral Talents 7124900124Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation/Youth Fund Project LQN25H160030
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The success of immune checkpoint blockades (ICBs) has accelerated the clinical implementation of multiple single agents and combination immunotherapies, but the response rates vary. Reconsideration of immune-oncology therapeutic failures via perspective from tumor-intrinsic (such as oncogenic driver genes) and tumor-extrinsic (the complexity of immune cell-cancer cell interactions) may help to better design more effective anticancer drugs and treatment strategies. Herein, in this review, introducing the frequently mutated gene EGFR in tumors and its abnormal activation are mainly focused on, highlighting that epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) wild-type and mutants respond differently to ICBs via tumor-intrinsic and tumor-extrinsic manners. Through briefly reviewing how EGFR is activated and the current EGFR targeting strategy, the present clinical trials of combination with EGFR inhibitors and ICBs are summarized, and the mechanism by which EGFR affects immunotherapy and measures to improve the efficacy of immunotherapy are discussed.

Indexed as

ErbB ReceptorsImmunotherapyNeoplasmsGene ExpressionHumansImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsMutationEGFR protein, humanErbB ReceptorsImmune Checkpoint Inhibitorscancer immunotherapycombination therapyepidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)tumor microenvironment

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PMID40859900
PMCPMC12462975

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