Longitudinal Monitoring of Plasma Circulating Tumour DNA Enables the Prediction of Early Relapse in Patients with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma: A Case Series

Growing evidence now suggests that circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) has great potential as a non-invasive biomarker for disease monitoring, since ctDNA carries tumour-specific modifications. In particular, monitoring ctDNA has important implications for identifying patients with haematological maligna...

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Published in:Diagnostics (Basel) 2021-11, Vol.11 (11), p.2055
Main Authors: Ji, Hongyan, Long, Xiaolu, Gu, Jia, Jin, Jin, Mao, Xia, Wang, Zhiqiong, Ma, Heng, Chen, Liting
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Biopsy
Bone marrow
Cancer therapies
Case Report
Cellular biology
Chemotherapy
circulating tumour DNA
Disease
droplet digital PCR
Flow cytometry
Informed consent
liquid biopsy
Lymphatic system
Lymphocytes
Lymphoma
Medical prognosis
MicroRNAs
Mutation
Patients
Plasma
relapse
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Summary:Growing evidence now suggests that circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) has great potential as a non-invasive biomarker for disease monitoring, since ctDNA carries tumour-specific modifications. In particular, monitoring ctDNA has important implications for identifying patients with haematological malignancies at clinical risk of disease progression. We hereby describe three patients with B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma and investigate the clinical value of sequential ctDNA profiling for the early detection of tumour relapse. Somatic mutations in diagnostic tumour biopsy samples of these three patients were identified by applying high-throughput next-generation sequencing. Droplet digital PCR probes and primers were designed and tested for each hotspot mutation. Serial ctDNA analysis was subsequently conducted among these three patients. We found that the longitudinal monitoring of plasma ctDNA could predict for at least one month in advance compared with flow cytometry, cytology and conventional imaging modalities. Therefore, our results support liquid biopsy based on ctDNA as a non-invasive complementary modality to other detection methods for detecting early relapse and contribute to more precise management for non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients.
ISSN:2075-4418
2075-4418
DOI:10.3390/diagnostics11112055