Trial reportNature communications2024
AR alterations inform circulating tumor DNA detection in metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer patients.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone for ARPI-pretreated and chemotherapy-naive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: a pooled analysis of KEYNOTE-921 and CheckMate 7DX trials.International urology and nephrology · 2026Pooled it
- Prognostic value of baseline circulating tumor DNA levels in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Pooled it
- Circulating Tumor DNA as a Biomarker for Precision Medicine in Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Pooled it
- Evolution of AR and Non-AR Alterations in ctDNA of Patients with Metastatic Prostate Cancer Treated in the Phase III Alliance A031201 Trial.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026Trial
- Tumor‑immune spatiotemporal co‑evolution: A new paradigm for understanding and overcoming therapy resistance in metastatic castration‑resistant prostate cancer (Review).International journal of molecular medicine · 2026Review
- Circulating tumour DNA and extrachromosomal DNA in prostate and bladder cancer: biology, clinical applications and future perspectives.World journal of urology · 2026Review
- Immunoediting and precision biomarkers in prostate cancer: The emerging role of liquid biopsy, immune contexture and HLA genotype (Review).International journal of oncology · 2026Review
- AR and Beyond: ctDNA Maps Resistance Evolution in mCRPC.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026Article
- Transcriptionally Informed Nucleosome Profiling of Circulating Cell-Free DNA Predicts Breast Cancer Recurrence.Cancer research communications · 2026Article
- Molecular determinants of AR-enhancer interaction and cistrome reprogramming in prostate cancer progression.Endocrine-related cancer · 2026Review
- 3D genome architecture and epigenetic regulation of lineage identity in advanced prostate cancer.Endocrinology · 2026Review
- Circulating Tumor DNA as Emerging Predictive and Prognostic Biomarker in Prostate Cancer.Cancers · 2026Review
- Artificial intelligence and multi-omics integration in liquid biopsy for genitourinary cancers: a systematic scoping review.International urology and nephrology · 2026Article
- Liquid Biopsy in Advanced Prostate Cancer.Cancers · 2026Review
- Review
- Convergent evolution of complex structural variants drives therapy resistance in metastatic prostate cancer.Genome biology · 2026Article
- Pathogenic Genomic Alterations in Circulating Tumor DNA Predict Overall Survival in Men with Metastatic Castrate-resistant Prostate Cancer.European urology · 2026Article
- Review
- Circulating tumour DNA in mCRPC: bridging tumour biology and real-time treatment monitoring.Frontiers in molecular medicine · 2026Review
- Exploring treatment models for oligometastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer: evolution of therapeutic strategies.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Review
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Abstract
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in plasma cell free DNA (cfDNA) of cancer patients is associated with poor prognosis, but is challenging to detect from low plasma volumes. In metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), ctDNA assays are needed to prognosticate outcomes of patients treated with androgen receptor (AR) inhibitors. We develop a custom targeted cfDNA sequencing assay, named AR-ctDETECT, to detect ctDNA in limiting plasma cfDNA available from mCRPC patients in the Alliance A031201 randomized phase 3 trial of enzalutamide with or without abiraterone. Of 776 patients, 59% are ctDNA-positive, with 26% having high ctDNA aneuploidy and 33% having low ctDNA aneuploidy but displaying AR gain or structural rearrangement, MYC/MYCN gain, or a pathogenic mutation. ctDNA-positive patients have significantly worse median overall survival than ctDNA-negative patients (29.0 months vs. 47.4 months, respectively). Here, we show that mCRPC patients identified as ctDNA-positive using the AR-ctDETECT assay have poor survival despite treatment with potent AR inhibitors in a phase 3 trial.
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