Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy, University of California San Diego Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA.
Guardant Health, Redwood City, CA.
JCO Precis Oncol. 2021 Nov 3;5. doi: 10.1200/PO.21.00011. eCollection 2021.
Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) is a metastatic disease with unidentifiable primary tumor. Somatic alterations can be assessed noninvasively via liquid biopsies interrogating cell-free DNA (cfDNA).
We evaluated 1,931 patients with CUP with a cfDNA next-generation sequencing panel (73-74 genes).
Overall, 1,739 patients (90%) had ≥ 1 cfDNA alteration. We then explored alteration actionability (per the levels of evidence from the OncoKB database); 825 patients (47.4% of 1,739) had level 1, level 2, or resistance/R1 alterations. Among 40 clinically annotated patients with CUP who had cfDNA evaluated, higher degrees of matching treatment to alterations (Matching Score > 50% ≤ 50%) was the only variable predicting improved outcome: longer median progression-free survival (10.4 2.5 months; = .002), overall survival (13.4 5.7 months; = .07, trend), and higher clinical benefit rate (stable disease ≥ 6 months/partial response/complete response; 83% 25%; = .003).
In summary, cfDNA frequently reveals strong level-of-evidence actionable alterations in CUP, and high degrees of matching to therapy correlates with better outcomes.
目的:评估通过液体活检检测游离 DNA(cfDNA)进行的非侵入性检测,在癌症未知原发灶(CUP)患者中检测体细胞改变的临床应用价值。
方法:我们评估了 1931 例 CUP 患者的 cfDNA 下一代测序panel(73-74 个基因)。
结果:总体而言,1739 例患者(90%)存在≥1 个 cfDNA 改变。然后我们研究了改变的可操作性(根据 OncoKB 数据库的证据级别);825 例患者(1739 例的 47.4%)存在 1 级、2 级或耐药/ R1 改变。在 40 例具有可评估 cfDNA 的临床注释的 CUP 患者中,更高程度的改变匹配治疗(Matching Score>50%≤50%)是唯一预测改善预后的变量:更长的中位无进展生存期(10.4±2.5 个月;P=.002)、总生存期(13.4±5.7 个月;P=.07,趋势)和更高的临床获益率(稳定疾病≥6 个月/部分缓解/完全缓解;83%比 25%;P=.003)。
结论:总之,cfDNA 频繁揭示 CUP 中具有强烈证据级别的可操作改变,并且与治疗的高度匹配与更好的结果相关。