1. Phylogenetic ctDNA analysis depicts early-stage lung cancer evolution
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Abbosh, C, Birkbak, NJ, Wilson, GA, Jamal-Hanjani, M, Constantin, T, Salari, R, Le Quesne, J, Moore, DA, Veeriah, S, Rosenthal, R, Marafioti, T, Kirkizlar, E, Watkins, TBK, McGranahan, N, Ward, S, Martinson, L, Riley, J, Fraioli, F, Al Bakir, M, Grönroos, E, Zambrana, F, Endozo, R, Bi, WL, Fennessy, FM, Sponer, N, Johnson, D, Laycock, J, Shafi, S, Czyzewska-Khan, J, Rowan, A, Chambers, T, Matthews, N, Turajlic, S, Hiley, C, Lee, SM, Forster, MD, Ahmad, T, Falzon, M, Borg, E, Lawrence, D, Hayward, M, Kolvekar, S, Panagiotopoulos, N, Janes, SM, Thakrar, R, Ahmed, A, Blackhall, F, Summers, Y, Hafez, D, Naik, A, Ganguly, A, Kareht, S, Shah, R, Joseph, L, Marie Quinn, A, Crosbie, PA, Naidu, B, Middleton, G, Langman, G, Trotter, S, Nicolson, M, Remmen, H, Kerr, K, Chetty, M, Gomersall, L, Fennell, DA, Nakas, A, Rathinam, S, Anand, G, Khan, S, Russell, P, Ezhil, V, Ismail, B, Irvin-Sellers, M, Prakash, V, Lester, JF, Kornaszewska, M, Attanoos, R, Adams, H, Davies, H, Oukrif, D, Akarca, AU, Hartley, JA, Lowe, HL, Lock, S, Iles, N, Bell, H, Ngai, Y, Elgar, G, Szallasi, Z, Schwarz, RF, Herrero, J, Stewart, A, Quezada, SA, Peggs, KS, Van Loo, P, Dive, C, Lin, CJ, Rabinowitz, M, Aerts, HJWL, Hackshaw, A, Shaw, JA, Zimmermann, BG, TRACERx consortium, PEACE consortium, Swanton, C, and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Postoperative Care ,Lung Neoplasms ,Biopsy ,DNA Mutational Analysis ,Reproducibility of Results ,DNA, Neoplasm ,Clone Cells ,Tumor Burden ,Evolution, Molecular ,Cell Tracking ,Drug Resistance, Neoplasm ,Limit of Detection ,Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung ,Disease Progression ,Humans ,Cell Lineage ,Neoplasm Metastasis ,Neoplasm Recurrence, Local ,Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction ,Early Detection of Cancer - Abstract
The early detection of relapse following primary surgery for non-small-cell lung cancer and the characterization of emerging subclones, which seed metastatic sites, might offer new therapeutic approaches for limiting tumour recurrence. The ability to track the evolutionary dynamics of early-stage lung cancer non-invasively in circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) has not yet been demonstrated. Here we use a tumour-specific phylogenetic approach to profile the ctDNA of the first 100 TRACERx (Tracking Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Evolution Through Therapy (Rx)) study participants, including one patient who was also recruited to the PEACE (Posthumous Evaluation of Advanced Cancer Environment) post-mortem study. We identify independent predictors of ctDNA release and analyse the tumour-volume detection limit. Through blinded profiling of postoperative plasma, we observe evidence of adjuvant chemotherapy resistance and identify patients who are very likely to experience recurrence of their lung cancer. Finally, we show that phylogenetic ctDNA profiling tracks the subclonal nature of lung cancer relapse and metastasis, providing a new approach for ctDNA-driven therapeutic studies.
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- 2017