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Circulating tumor DNA: a help to guide therapeutic strategy in patients with borderline and locally advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma?

Journal

DIGESTIVE AND LIVER DISEASE
Volume 54, Issue 10, Pages 1428-1436

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2022.01.126

Keywords

pancreatic cancer; Circulating tumor DNA; Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio; Prognostic markers

Funding

  1. Fondation pour la Recherche M?dicale
  2. Fundation Roche
  3. [M2R201806006018]

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This study aimed to investigate the impact of baseline circulating tumor DNA status on treatment and prognosis of patients with borderline resectable or locally advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma. The results showed that positive baseline ctDNA was associated with shorter progression-free survival and shorter relapse-free survival after secondary resection.
Background: prognostic biomarkers could be useful to better select patients with borderline resectable (BR) or locally advanced (LA) pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PA) for chemoradiotherapy (CRT) and/or secondary resection.Aims: The main objective of this work was to study characteristics, received treatments and prognostic of patients with BR or LA PA according to their baseline circulating tumor DNA status and, for secondary objective, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte Ratio (NLR). Methods: ctDNA status at baseline was determined using Next Generation Sequencing in a consecutive monocentric cohort of patients with a BR or LA PA.Results: 69 patients were included, 31 with BR PA and 38 with LA PA. 14 (20.3%) patients had baseline positive ctDNA. Five (7.8%) patients had NLR > 5. Patients with positive ctDNA had 3.7 months shorter progression free survival ( p = 0.006). Patients with positive ctDNA had earlier progression after the beginning of CRT (4.4 vs 7.1 months; p = 0.068) and shorter relapse free survival after secondary resection (9.2 vs 22.9 months; p = 0.016).Conclusions: positive ctDNA at baseline was associated with a worse prognosis in patients with BR or LA PA. These data are exploratory and must be confirmed in further prospective trials. (c) 2022 Editrice Gastroenterologica Italiana S.r.l. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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