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Published on: September 20, 2016
Comprehensive Genomic Profiling in Non-Myeloid Hematologic Malignancies Identifies Variants That Can Alter Clinical
Chenyu Lin1, Katherine I Zhou2, Michelle F Green3
1Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapy, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27705, USA.
Background:
Comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) is frequently adopted to direct the clinical care of myeloid neoplasms and solid tumors, but its utility in the care of lymphoid and histiocytic cancers is less well defined.
Methods:
In this study, we aimed to evaluate the frequency at which mutations identified by CGP altered management in non-myeloid hematologic malignancies. We retrospectively examined the CGP results of 105 samples from 101 patients with non-myeloid hematologic malignancies treated at an academic medical center who had CGP testing between 2014 and 2021.
Results:
CGP revealed one or more pathogenic or likely pathogenic variant in 92 (88%) of samples and 73 (72%) of tested patients had one or more mutations with diagnostic, prognostic, or therapeutic significance. The identification of a resistance variant resulted in the suspension of the active treatment or affected subsequent treatment choice in 9 (69%) out of 13 patients. However, the presence of a therapy sensitizing variant only led to consideration of a biomarker-directed therapy in 6 (10%) out of 61 patients.
Conclusions:
Overall, CGP of non-myeloid hematologic malignancies identified clinically significant variants in 72% of patients and resulted in a change in management in 22% of patients.
