Monitoring gastric cancer progression with circulating tumour DNA.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) is an emerging candidate biomarker for malignancies and may be useful for monitoring the disease status of gastric cancer.

Methods

We performed targeted deep sequencing of plasma cell-free DNA (cfDNA) by massively parallel sequencing in patients with tumours harbouring TP53 mutations. The quantitative values of TP53-ctDNA during the clinical course were compared with the tumour status.

Results

Three out of ten patients with TP53 mutations in primary tumours showed detectable TP53 mutation levels in preoperative cfDNA. Although the cfDNA concentrations were not always reflective of the disease course, the ctDNA fraction correlated with the disease status.

Conclusions

ctDNA may serve as a useful biomarker to monitor gastric cancer progression and residual disease.

SUBMITTER: Hamakawa T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4453461 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature