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The spatio-temporal evolution of lymph node spread in early breast cancer


ABSTRACT: The most significant prognostic factor in early breast cancer is lymph node involvement. This stage between localised and systemic disease is key to understanding breast cancer progression, however our knowledge of the evolution of lymph node malignant invasion remains limited, as most currently available data derives from primary tumours. In 11 treatment-naïve node positive early breast cancer patients without clinical evidence of distant metastasis, we investigated lymph node evolution using spatial multi-region sequencing of primary and lymph node deposits and genomic profiling of matched longitudinal circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA). Linear evolution from primary to lymph node was rare (1/11) whereas the majority of cases displayed either early divergence between primary and nodes (4/11), or no detectable divergence (6/11) where both primary and nodal cells belonged to a single recent expansion of a metastatic clone. Divergence of metastatic clones was driven in part by APOBEC. Longitudinal ctDNA from 2 subjects taken peri-operatively reflected the two major evolutionary patterns and demonstrates, even in this early disease cohort, the principle of detection of private mutations from an early metastatic nodal deposit. This study sheds new light on a crucial evolutionary step in the natural history of breast cancer.

SUBMITTER: Peter Barry 

PROVIDER: S-BSST110 | bioimages |

REPOSITORIES: bioimages

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