Supplementary Figure S2 from Comparison of Circulating Tumor DNA Assays for Molecular Residual Disease Detection in Early-Stage Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
posted on 2024-02-16, 09:40authored byMaria Coakley, Guillermo Villacampa, Prithika Sritharan, Claire Swift, Kathryn Dunne, Lucy Kilburn, Katie Goddard, Christodoulos Pipinikas, Patricia Rojas, Warren Emmett, Peter Hall, Catherine Harper-Wynne, Tamas Hickish, Iain Macpherson, Alicia Okines, Andrew Wardley, Duncan Wheatley, Simon Waters, Carlo Palmieri, Matthew Winter, Rosalind J. Cutts, Isaac Garcia-Murillas, Judith Bliss, Nicholas C. Turner
Comparison of median lead time from ctDNA detection to relapse between dPCR and RaDaR assays using paired data in all individuals with relapse (n=40).
Funding
Cancer Research UK (CRUK)
NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust/Institute of Cancer Research (BRC)
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ARTICLE ABSTRACT
Detection of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in patients who have completed treatment for early-stage breast cancer is associated with a high risk of relapse, yet the optimal assay for ctDNA detection is unknown.
The cTRAK-TN clinical trial prospectively used tumor-informed digital PCR (dPCR) assays for ctDNA molecular residual disease (MRD) detection in early-stage triple-negative breast cancer. We compared tumor-informed dPCR assays with tumor-informed personalized multimutation sequencing assays in 141 patients from cTRAK-TN.
MRD was first detected by personalized sequencing in 47.9% of patients, 0% first detected by dPCR, and 52.1% with both assays simultaneously (P < 0.001; Fisher exact test). The median lead time from ctDNA detection to relapse was 6.1 months with personalized sequencing and 3.9 months with dPCR (P = 0.004, mixed-effects Cox model). Detection of MRD at the first time point was associated with a shorter time to relapse compared with detection at subsequent time points (median lead time 4.2 vs. 7.1 months; P = 0.02).
Personalized multimutation sequencing assays have potential clinically important improvements in clinical outcome in the early detection of MRD.