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C.L. Liu



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    MA 13 - New Insights of Diagnosis and Update of Treatment (ID 674)

    • Event: WCLC 2017
    • Type: Mini Oral
    • Track: Early Stage NSCLC
    • Presentations: 1
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      MA 13.01 - Clinical and Pathological Variables Influencing Noninvasive Detection of Early Stage Lung Cancer Using Circulating Tumor DNA (ID 8686)

      15:45 - 15:50  |  Author(s): C.L. Liu

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      Background:
      Analysis of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) represents a potential strategy for the early detection of lung cancer. Despite significant interest, few studies have evaluated ctDNA levels in early stage lung cancer patients and the feasibility of ctDNA-based screening remains unclear.

      Method:
      We applied lung cancer-focused Cancer Personalized Profiling by deep Sequencing (CAPP-Seq) to assess ctDNA levels in 55 localized lung cancer patients treated with curative intent (stage I: n=22, stage II: n=7, stage III: n=26) and 50 healthy controls. Histological subtypes included: adenocarcinoma (n=30), squamous cell carcinoma (n=19), NSCLC NOS (n=4), and small cell lung cancer (n=2). Sensitivity and specificity of ctDNA detection were evaluated in all patients and in a subset of NSCLC patients with node negative (N0) stage I-II disease. Additionally, for patients with stage I adenocarcinoma in whom ctDNA was not detectable using the standard population-based CAPP-Seq approach, we designed personalized CAPP-Seq assays covering a median of 320 mutations/patient based on tumor exome sequencing from the respective patients.

      Result:
      We detected ctDNA in the pre-treatment plasma of 43/55 (78%) patients at a median allele fraction (AF) of 0.48% (range: 0.004%-26.1%). ROC analysis revealed an area under curve of 0.91, with sensitivity and specificity of 78% and 98%, respectively. Among patients with non-adenocarcinoma histologies, 92% (23/25) had detectable ctDNA (median AF: 0.90%), compared to 67% of patients with adenocarcinoma (20/30; median AF: 0.23%; P=0.046). However, tumor volumes were significantly smaller in adenocarcinomas (P=0.01) and in multivariate analysis ctDNA detection was significantly associated with tumor volume (P=0.01) but not histological subtype (P=0.16). In N0 stage I-II NSCLC patients (n=22), ctDNA was detected in 64% of patients (7/14 adeno vs 7/8 non-adeno) with a specificity of 98% and median AF of 0.022% (median AF of 0.018% vs 0.030% in adeno vs non-adeno patients, respectively). Using personalized CAPP-Seq assays, we detected ctDNA in 3/4 patients with stage I adenocarcinoma in whom ctDNA was not detected using our standard lung-cancer focused CAPP-Seq assay. In these 3 patients, tumor volumes ranged from 11.6-14.7 mL and the ctDNA AF ranged from 0.0014%-0.003%. Taken together, we detected ctDNA in 17/22 (77%) N0 stage I-II tumors.

      Conclusion:
      These data suggest tumor volume is a stronger determinant of ctDNA levels than histology in localized lung cancers. Additionally, our findings suggest that the majority of localized lung cancers shed ctDNA and that ultra-sensitive assays will be required for early detection of lung cancer using ctDNA

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      Information from this presentation has been removed upon request of the author.