Clinical results and importance of next-generation sequencing (NGS) in detecting targeted mutations in the treatment of metastatic Lung Cancer: Single center initial results Effect of Next-generation Sequencing in advanced Lung Cancer treatment

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Cem Mirili
Çiğdem Kahraman
Ali Yılmaz
Mehmet Bilici
Salim Başol Tekin
Abdulgani Tatar
Ömer Yakar
Pelin Ercoskun

Abstract

Objective:  In Lung cancer (LC), which is one of the most deadly cancers, longer survival has been achieved with targeted agents. For this reason, it is important to find the patients who are suitable for targeted therapies. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is a method that allows multiple genetic variants to be detected simultaneously by performing massive parallel DNA sequencing at the same time. We wanted to reveal the clinical effects and benefits of genetic variant analysis with NGS for our patients.


Material and Methods: Patients with stage 4 non-squamous and not otherwise specified (NOS) Non-small cell LC who underwent genetic variant analysis with NGS were included in the study, retrospectively.


Results: Total of the 51 patients, 41 (80.4%) were male and the median age was 64 (35-85) years. According to TNM, 21 (41.2%) patients were stage 4A, 30 (58.8%) patients were stage 4B and 39 (76.5%) patients had adenocarcinoma and 12 (23.5%) had NOS histology. NGS analyzes were performed in median 14 days (8-43) and determined 24 pathogenic variants in 17 (%25) patients: 9EGFR (%17,6), 6PIKC3A (%11,7), 5KRAS (%9,8), 2PTEN (%3,9), 1BRAF (%1,9), 1MET (%1,6) (7 of them concomitantly). Cytotoxic chemotherapy was recommended in 41, anti-EGFR agents in 8 (afatinib in 4, erlotinib in 4 patients) patients and anti-BRAF+MEK inhibitor agent (dabrafenib+trametinib) in 1 patient.


Conclusion: With the NGS, in just two weeks, both target and resistance genetic variants of our patients were detected at the same time and individualized treatments were applied. In this way, both time and cost were saved.

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Mirili, C., Kahraman, Çiğdem, Yılmaz, A., Bilici, M., Tekin, S. B., Tatar, A., Yakar, Ömer, & Ercoskun, P. (2019). Clinical results and importance of next-generation sequencing (NGS) in detecting targeted mutations in the treatment of metastatic Lung Cancer: Single center initial results: Effect of Next-generation Sequencing in advanced Lung Cancer treatment. Medical Science and Discovery, 6(12), 327–332. https://doi.org/10.36472/msd.v6i12.330
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Received 2019-11-23
Accepted 2019-12-15
Published 2019-12-26

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