Detection of circulating cell-free HPV DNA of 13 HPV types for patients with cervical cancer as potential biomarker to monitor therapy response and to detect relapse

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BACKGROUND: HPV-related cervical cancer (CC) is the fourth most frequent cancer in women worldwide. Cell-free tumour DNA is a potent biomarker to detect treatment response, residual disease, and relapse. We investigated the potential use of cell-free circulating HPV-DNA (cfHPV-DNA) in plasma of patients with CC.

METHODS: cfHPV-DNA levels were measured using a highly sensitive next-generation sequencing-based approach targeting a panel of 13 high-risk HPV types.

RESULTS: Sequencing was performed in 69 blood samples collected from 35 patients, of which 26 were treatment-naive when the first liquid biopsy sample was retrieved. cfHPV-DNA was successfully detected in 22/26 (85%) cases. A significant correlation between tumour burden and cfHPV-DNA levels was observed: cfHPV-DNA was detectable in all treatment-naive patients with advanced-stage disease (17/17, FIGO IB3-IVB) and in 5/9 patients with early-stage disease (FIGO IA-IB2). Sequential samples revealed a decrease of cfHPV-DNA levels in 7 patients corresponding treatment response and an increase in a patient with relapse.

CONCLUSIONS: In this proof-of-concept study we demonstrated the potential of cfHPV-DNA as a biomarker for therapy monitoring in patients with primary and recurrent CC. Our findings facilitate the development of a sensitive and precise, non-invasive, inexpensive, and easily accessible tool in CC diagnosis, therapy monitoring and follow-up.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:128

Enthalten in:

British journal of cancer - 128(2023), 11 vom: 27. Juni, Seite 2097-2103

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mittelstadt, Suzana [VerfasserIn]
Kelemen, Olga [VerfasserIn]
Admard, Jakob [VerfasserIn]
Gschwind, Axel [VerfasserIn]
Koch, André [VerfasserIn]
Wörz, Sarah [VerfasserIn]
Oberlechner, Ernst [VerfasserIn]
Engler, Tobias [VerfasserIn]
Bonzheim, Irina [VerfasserIn]
Staebler, Annette [VerfasserIn]
Weidner, Nicola [VerfasserIn]
Stubenrauch, Frank [VerfasserIn]
Iftner, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Riess, Olaf [VerfasserIn]
Schroeder, Christopher [VerfasserIn]
Kommoss, Stefan [VerfasserIn]
Ossowski, Stephan [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Biomarkers
Cell-Free Nucleic Acids
Circulating Tumor DNA
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 25.05.2023

Date Revised 29.05.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41416-023-02233-x

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM354784552