Molecular analysis in bowel malignancies in cancer survivors vs. primary malignancies
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ABSTRACT: Background: Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) and testicular cancer (TC) survivors have an increased risk of developing second primary bowel malignancies (both colorectal cancer (CRC) and small bowel adenocarcinoma (SBA)). We aimed to determine differences in genetic characteristics of second primary bowel malignancies and primary bowel malignancies.
Methods: Copy number aberrations (CNAs) generated by low-coverage whole-genome sequencing (WGS) were collected from previous studies of second primary CRC (HL survivors, n=39), primary CRC (n=90) and primary SBA (n=14). In addition, seven new samples of second primary SBA from HL (n=3) or TC (n=5) survivors, identified in the Dutch national pathology registry (PALGA), were available for low-coverage WGS.
Results: Overall, CNA patterns observed in second primary bowel malignancies were similar to those in primary bowel malignancies. Losses of 21q22.2 were observed more frequently (p=0.057) in second primary CRC compared with primary CRC, while in second primary SBA gains of 10p15.3-15.1 and losses of 18q12.1-23 were significantly more frequent detected compared with primary SBA.
Conclusions: Second primary CRC and SBA show comparable genome wide CNAs to those in primary CRC and SBA, respectively. This suggests that part of the pathogenesis of second primary tumours in these cancer survivors is similar to those of primary CRC and SBA in general, despite the exposure to DNA damaging treatments received for earlier HL and TC.
PROVIDER: EGAS00001005940 | EGA |
REPOSITORIES: EGA
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