Tag: ALK
Characterization of Blood- Based Molecular Profiling in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
Introduction Most cases of pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC) are diagnosed in the metastatic or locally advanced stage. It is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States,1,2 with a 5-year overall survival (OS) around 10% in this country2 despite years of research and therapeutic development. For those patients…
Liquid Biopsy Noninferior to Tissue-Based Genotyping in Management of Advanced NSCLC
Cell-free circulating tumor DNA (cfDNA)–based tumor genotyping was found to be noninferior to standard-of-care tissue-based genotyping for detection of guideline-recommended biomarkers and therapeutic outcomes in patients with advanced nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Cell-free circulating tumor DNA (cfDNA)–based tumor genotyping is noninferior to tissue-based genotyping for detection of guideline-recommended…
Data Demonstrates Lucence Liquid Biopsy Test Can Track Treatment-Based ctDNA Changes
NEW YORK – At the European Society for Medical Oncology Congress this week, precision oncology assay developer Lucence presented data that demonstrated its amplicon-based LiquidHallmark assay could be used to personalize care for people with advanced urothelial carcinoma. LiquidHallmark is a laboratory-developed test based on the company’s AmpliMark next-generation sequencing platform…
The Current Molecular Treatment Landscape of Advanced Colorectal Cancer and Need for the COLOMATE Platform
Next-Generation Sequencing Utilizing Tumor Tissue and/or Blood The identification of actionable genomic alterations in tumors such as mCRC was once performed by Sanger DNA sequencing of tumor DNA that was extracted from fixed paraffin-embedded tumor tissue, but this has now been replaced by next-generation sequencing (NGS), which allows for larger-scale…
High tumor mutation burden and DNA repair gene mutations
Introduction Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)‑fusion genes represent a small but important part of oncogenic driver mutations in NSCLC, accounting for approximately 3%‑7% of all cases worldwide.1,2 Small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are the standard therapy for ALK-rearranged NSCLC. Crizotinib, a first-generation TKI, is the most widely used targeted drug…
Oncogene Concatenated Enriched Amplicon Nanopore Sequencing for rapid, accurate, and affordable somatic mutation detection | Genome Biology
Stochastic Amplicon Ligation. DNA samples for oncology sequencing are typically extracted from FFPE tissues and can have average lengths of less than 500 nt due to accumulated chemical damage [18]. We developed the Stochastic Amplicon Ligation (SAL) method to enzymatically concatenate many short DNA molecules together to utilize the long-read…
Defects in 8-oxo-guanine repair pathway cause high frequency of C > A substitutions in neuroblastoma
Significance The collection of large amounts of whole-genome sequencing data allowed for identification of mutational signatures, which are characteristic combinations of substitutions in the context of neighboring bases. The clinical significance of these mutational signatures is still largely unknown. In neuroblastoma, we showed that high levels of cytosine > adenine…
Nuclear protein in testis carcinoma
Introduction Nuclear protein in testis (NUT) carcinoma (NC) is defined by the rearrangement of the chromosomal region 15q14 harboring the NUTM1 gene. As a clinically aggressive neoplasm with poor differentiation, NC was previously believed to occur primarily in children and young adolescents. However, with an increasing number of reports, middle-aged…
