Stenzl - Figure 36

MSK-IMPACT Clinical Workflow for Tissue Sequencing

FIG. 36:  In a recent presentation,[24] a group from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center compared the profiles of cell-free DNA extracted from plasma versus tissue and metastatic urothelial carcinoma. Data from a very small group of patients revealed that this information led to a different treatment strategy than initially planned and to a good outcome. The patients did not receive either cisplatin- or carboplatin-based chemotherapy but went on to have a checkpoint inhibitor (or in reverse order), and in other cases a treatment was stopped or continued.

References

[24]

Cheng ML, Shady M, Cipolla CK, et al. Comparison of somatic mutation profiles from cell free DNA (cfDNA) versus tissue in metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC). J Clin Oncol. 2017;35(suppl):Abstract 4533  http://abstracts.asco.org/199/AbstView_199_194122.html