Integrative molecular analysis of patients with advanced and metastatic cancer

  • Verena Sailer
  • , Kenneth Wa
  • , Tuo Zhang
  • , Rohan Bareja
  • , David J. Pisapia
  • , Alexandros Sigaras
  • , Bhavneet Bhinder
  • , Alessandro Romanel
  • , David Wilkes
  • , Evan Sticca
  • , Joanna Cyrta
  • , Rema Rao
  • , Sheena Sahota
  • , Chantal Pauli
  • , Shaham Beg
  • , Samaneh Motanagh
  • , Myriam Kossai
  • , Jacqueline Fontugne
  • , Loredana Puca
  • , Hanna Rennert
  • Jenny Zhaoying Xiang, Noah Greco, Rob Kim, Theresa Y. MacDonald, Terra McNary, Mirjam Eleonora Blattner-Johnson, Marc H. Schiffman, Bishoy M. Faltas, Jeffrey P. Greenfield, David Rickman, Eleni Andreopoulou, Kevin Holcomb, Linda T. Vahdat, Douglas S. Scherr, Koen van Besien, Christopher E. Barbieri, Brian D. Robinson, Howard Alan Fine, Allyson J. Ocean, Ana Molina, Manish A. Shah, David M. Nanus, Qiulu Pan, Francesca Demichelis, Scott T. Tagawa, Wei Song, Juan Miguel Mosquera, Andrea Sboner, Mark A. Rubin, Olivier Elemento, Himisha Beltran (Corresponding Author)

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Abstract

PURPOSE  We developed a precision medicine program for patients with advanced cancer using integrative whole-exome sequencing and transcriptome analysis. 

PATIENTS AND METHODS  Five hundred fifteen patients with locally advanced/metastatic solid tumors were prospectively enrolled, and paired tumor/normal sequencing was performed. Seven hundred fifty-nine tumors from 515 patients were evaluated. 

RESULTS  Most frequent tumor types were prostate (19.4%), brain (16.5%), bladder (15.4%), and kidney cancer (9.2%). Most frequently altered genes were TP53 (33%), CDKN2A (11%), APC (10%), KTM2D (8%), PTEN (8%), and BRCA2 (8%). Pathogenic germline alterations were present in 10.7% of patients, most frequently CHEK2 (1.9%), BRCA1 (1.5%), BRCA2 (1.5%), and MSH6 (1.4%). Novel gene fusions were identified, including a RBM47-CDK12 fusion in a metastatic prostate cancer sample. The rate of clinically relevant alterations was 39% by whole-exome sequencing, which was improved by 16% by adding RNA sequencing. In patients with more than one sequenced tumor sample (n = 146), 84.62% of actionable mutations were concordant. 

CONCLUSION  Integrative analysis may uncover informative alterations for an advanced pan-cancer patient population. These alterations are consistent in spatially and temporally heterogeneous samples.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-12
JournalJCO Precision Oncology
Volume3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Field of Science*

  • 3.2 Clinical medicine
  • 3.1 Basic medicine

Publication Type*

  • 1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database

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