Circulating tumor DNA-based molecular residual disease detection for treatment monitoring in advanced melanoma patients

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BACKGROUND: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have substantially improved overall survival in patients with advanced melanoma; however, the lack of biomarkers to monitor treatment response and relapse remains an important clinical challenge. Thus, a reliable biomarker is needed that can risk-stratify patients for disease recurrence and predict response to treatment.

METHODS: A retrospective analysis using a personalized, tumor-informed circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) assay on prospectively collected plasma samples (n = 555) from 69 patients with advanced melanoma was performed. Patients were divided into three cohorts: cohort A (N = 30), stage III patients receiving adjuvant ICI/observation; cohort B (N = 29), unresectable stage III/IV patients receiving ICI therapy; and cohort C (N = 10), stage III/IV patients on surveillance after planned completion of ICI therapy for metastatic disease.

RESULTS: In cohort A, compared to molecular residual disease (MRD)-negative patients, MRD-positivity was associated with significantly shorter distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS; hazard ratio [HR], 10.77; p = .01). Increasing ctDNA levels from the post-surgical or pre-treatment time point to after 6 weeks of ICI were predictive of shorter DMFS in cohort A (HR, 34.54; p < .0001) and shorter progression-free survival (PFS) in cohort B (HR, 22; p = .006). In cohort C, all ctDNA-negative patients remained progression-free for a median follow-up of 14.67 months, whereas ctDNA-positive patients experienced disease progression.

CONCLUSION: Personalized and tumor-informed longitudinal ctDNA monitoring is a valuable prognostic and predictive tool that may be used throughout the clinical course of patients with advanced melanoma.

Errataetall:

CommentIn: Cancer. 2023 Jun 1;129(11):1646-1648. - PMID 36869645

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:129

Enthalten in:

Cancer - 129(2023), 11 vom: 01. Juni, Seite 1723-1734

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Eroglu, Zeynep [VerfasserIn]
Krinshpun, Shifra [VerfasserIn]
Kalashnikova, Ekaterina [VerfasserIn]
Sudhaman, Sumedha [VerfasserIn]
Ozturk Topcu, Turkan [VerfasserIn]
Nichols, Matt [VerfasserIn]
Martin, Justin [VerfasserIn]
Bui, Katherine M [VerfasserIn]
Palsuledesai, Charuta C [VerfasserIn]
Malhotra, Meenakshi [VerfasserIn]
Olshan, Perry [VerfasserIn]
Markowitz, Joseph [VerfasserIn]
Khushalani, Nikhil I [VerfasserIn]
Tarhini, Ahmad A [VerfasserIn]
Messina, Jane L [VerfasserIn]
Aleshin, Alexey [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Advanced melanoma
Biomarkers, Tumor
Circulating Tumor DNA
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA)
DNA, Neoplasm
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI)
Journal Article
Molecular residual disease (MRD)
Treatment monitoring

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Date Completed 11.05.2023

Date Revised 24.05.2023

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: Cancer. 2023 Jun 1;129(11):1646-1648. - PMID 36869645

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/cncr.34716

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NLM353755346