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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2021

Next Generation Sequencing of Tumor and Matched Plasma Samples: Identification of Somatic Variants in ctDNA From Ovarian Cancer Patients.

Ana Barbosa, Pedro Pinto, Ana Peixoto, Joana Guerra, Manuela Pinheiro, Catarina Santos, Carla Pinto, Carla Escudeiro, Carla Bartosch, Rui Santos and 3 more

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Molecular Management of High-Grade Serous Ovarian Carcinoma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ana BarbosaCancer Genetics Group, Instituto Português de Oncologia (IPO)-Porto Research Center (CI-IPOP), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO-Porto), Porto, Portugal.
Pedro PintoCancer Genetics Group, Instituto Português de Oncologia (IPO)-Porto Research Center (CI-IPOP), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO-Porto), Porto, Portugal.
Ana PeixotoCancer Genetics Group, Instituto Português de Oncologia (IPO)-Porto Research Center (CI-IPOP), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO-Porto), Porto, Portugal.
Joana GuerraCancer Genetics Group, Instituto Português de Oncologia (IPO)-Porto Research Center (CI-IPOP), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO-Porto), Porto, Portugal.
Manuela PinheiroCancer Genetics Group, Instituto Português de Oncologia (IPO)-Porto Research Center (CI-IPOP), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO-Porto), Porto, Portugal.
Catarina SantosCancer Genetics Group, Instituto Português de Oncologia (IPO)-Porto Research Center (CI-IPOP), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO-Porto), Porto, Portugal.
Carla PintoCancer Genetics Group, Instituto Português de Oncologia (IPO)-Porto Research Center (CI-IPOP), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO-Porto), Porto, Portugal.
Carla EscudeiroCancer Genetics Group, Instituto Português de Oncologia (IPO)-Porto Research Center (CI-IPOP), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO-Porto), Porto, Portugal.
Carla BartoschDepartment of Pathology, Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO-Porto), Porto, Portugal.
Rui SantosDepartment of Pathology, Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO-Porto), Porto, Portugal.
Andreia BrandãoCancer Genetics Group, Instituto Português de Oncologia (IPO)-Porto Research Center (CI-IPOP), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO-Porto), Porto, Portugal.
João SilvaCancer Genetics Group, Instituto Português de Oncologia (IPO)-Porto Research Center (CI-IPOP), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO-Porto), Porto, Portugal.
Manuel R TeixeiraCancer Genetics Group, Instituto Português de Oncologia (IPO)-Porto Research Center (CI-IPOP), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO-Porto), Porto, Portugal.
IPO Porto · PTInstituto Português de Oncologia Francisco Gentil · PT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genetic testing to detect somatic alterations is usually performed on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tumor samples. However, tumor molecular profiling through ctDNA analysis may be particularly interesting with the emergence of targeted therapies for ovarian cancer (OC), mainly when tumor is not available and biopsy is not viable, also allowing representation of multiple neoplastic subclones. Using a custom panel of 27 genes, next-generation sequencing (NGS) was performed on tumor and matched plasma samples from 96 OC patients, which were combined in two groups (treatment naive and post-treatment). Overall, at least one somatic variant present in the tumor sample was also detected in the matched plasma sample in 35.6% of the patients, a percentage that increased to 69.6% of the treatment naive patients and 83.3% of those with stage IV disease, showing the potential of ctDNA analysis as an alternative to identify somatic variants in these patients, namely those that have predictive value for targeted therapy. In fact, of the two treatment-naive patients with somatic

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ctDNA = circulating tumor DNAliquid biopsyNGS - next generation sequencingovarian cancertumor hetereogeneity

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