1. Pulmonary venous circulating tumor cell dissemination before tumor resection and disease relapse
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Chemi, Francesca, Rothwell, Dominic G., McGranahan, Nicholas, Gulati, Sakshi, Abbosh, Chris, Pearce, Simon P., and Zhou, Cong
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Excision (Surgery) -- Usage ,Diseases -- Relapse ,Lung cancer, Non-small cell -- Risk factors -- Genetic aspects -- Care and treatment ,Biological sciences ,Health - Abstract
Approximately 50% of patients with early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who undergo surgery with curative intent will relapse within 5 years.sup.1,2. Detection of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) at the time of surgery may represent a tool to identify patients at higher risk of recurrence for whom more frequent monitoring is advised. Here we asked whether CellSearch-detected pulmonary venous CTCs (PV-CTCs) at surgical resection of early-stage NSCLC represent subclones responsible for subsequent disease relapse. PV-CTCs were detected in 48% of 100 patients enrolled into the TRACERx study.sup.3, were associated with lung-cancer-specific relapse and remained an independent predictor of relapse in multivariate analysis adjusted for tumor stage. In a case study, genomic profiling of single PV-CTCs collected at surgery revealed higher mutation overlap with metastasis detected 10 months later (91%) than with the primary tumor (79%), suggesting that early-disseminating PV-CTCs were responsible for disease relapse. Together, PV-CTC enumeration and genomic profiling highlight the potential of PV-CTCs as early predictors of NSCLC recurrence after surgery. However, the limited sensitivity of PV-CTCs in predicting relapse suggests that further studies using a larger, independent cohort are warranted to confirm and better define the potential clinical utility of PV-CTCs in early-stage NSCLC. Pulmonary venous tumor cells disseminating before tumor resection are heterogeneous, predict relapse and seed future metastasis of lung cancer, Author(s): Francesca Chemi [sup.1] [sup.2] , Dominic G. Rothwell [sup.1] , Nicholas McGranahan [sup.3] [sup.4] [sup.5] , Sakshi Gulati [sup.1] , Chris Abbosh [sup.4] , Simon P. Pearce [sup.1] , [...]
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- 2019
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