Authors
Jeanne Tie, Joshua D Cohen, Yuxuan Wang, Lu Li, Michael Christie, Koen Simons, Hany Elsaleh, Suzanne Kosmider, Rachel Wong, Desmond Yip, Margaret Lee, Ben Tran, David Rangiah, Matthew Burge, David Goldstein, Madhu Singh, Iain Skinner, Ian Faragher, Matthew Croxford, Carolyn Bampton, Andrew Haydon, Ian T Jones, Christos S Karapetis, Timothy Price, Mary J Schaefer, Jeanne Ptak, Lisa Dobbyn, Natallie Silliman, Isaac Kinde, Cristian Tomasetti, Nickolas Papadopoulos, Kenneth Kinzler, Bert Volgestein, Peter Gibbs
Publication date
2019/4/1
Journal
Gut
Volume
68
Issue
4
Pages
663-671
Publisher
BMJ Publishing Group
Description
Objective
For patients with locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC), adjuvant chemotherapy selection following surgery remains a major clinical dilemma. Here, we investigated the ability of circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) to improve risk stratification in patients with LARC.
Design
We enrolled patients with LARC (T3/T4 and/or N+) planned for neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy. Plasma samples were collected pretreatment, postchemoradiotherapy and 4–10 weeks after surgery. Somatic mutations in individual patient’s tumour were identified via massively parallel sequencing of 15 genes commonly mutated in colorectal cancer. We then designed personalised assays to quantify ctDNA in plasma samples. Patients received adjuvant therapy at clinician discretion, blinded to the ctDNA results.
Results
We analysed 462 serial plasma samples from 159 patients. ctDNA was detectable in 77%, 8.3% and 12% of pretreatment …
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