Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Cancer Res. 2019 Mar 15;79(6):1038-1040. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-19-0231.
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) holds great promise as a noninvasive diagnostic tool to guide treatment for patients with lung cancer. Two studies by Phallen and colleagues and Anagnostou and colleagues correlated sensitive measures of ctDNA with clinical responses to tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) and immune checkpoint inhibitors, respectively, in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Together, these studies further highlight the potential clinical utility of serial ctDNA monitoring in patients with NSCLC undergoing treatment with both targeted therapies and immunotherapies..
循环肿瘤 DNA(ctDNA)作为一种非侵入性诊断工具,有望指导肺癌患者的治疗。Phallen 及其同事和 Anagnostou 及其同事的两项研究分别将 ctDNA 的敏感测量结果与非小细胞肺癌(NSCLC)患者对酪氨酸激酶抑制剂(TKI)和免疫检查点抑制剂的临床反应相关联。这两项研究共同进一步强调了在接受靶向治疗和免疫治疗的 NSCLC 患者中进行连续 ctDNA 监测的潜在临床应用。