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Case Studies | Medicine | Indonesia | Volume 12 Issue 1, January 2023 | Rating: 5.2 / 10

A Case Report of Wild Type Adenocarcinoma

Anak Agung Bagus Bramardipa ^[2] | Anak Agung Gde Upeksha ^[6]

Abstract: Background: Lung cancer is placed in the first place as the most cause of cancer death in men and third in women in Indonesia, and are highly linked with smoking habit. Adenocarcinoma is the most common non-small cell carcinoma and divided into adenocarcinomas with mutations and adenoracinomas without mutations which lead to different treatment option. Case: A male patient in his 60s was come with chief complaint pain sensation in his right chest wall along with breath difficulty. A solid mass was found from CT-Scan. He then undergo trans-thoracal needle aspiration biopsy and the result was suggesting to non-small cell lung carcinoma, gene mutation test using Next-generation sequencing (NGS) then done with no mutation were found from the sample. Conclusion: Multiple genes alteration can be detected at once by using NGS, this test helps in a condition where minimal tissue sample were obtained. Chemotherapy is therapeutic choice in wild-type adenocarcinoma.

Keywords: Cancer, Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Wild Type Adenocarcinoma

Edition: Volume 12 Issue 1, January 2023,

Pages: 942 - 944