Clonality and heterogeneity of metachronous colorectal cancer.
Mol Carcinog
Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery IV, Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing, China.
Published: March 2019
Patients with metachronous colorectal cancer (CRC) have been diagnosed with primary CRC more than once. Given that the genetic and microenvironment is the same in these cases, metachronous CRC is an important model for studying colorectal tumorigenesis. We performed whole exome sequencing of seven freshly frozen tumors from three patients with metachronous CRC and compared their genetic profiles. In patients with metachronous tumors of distinct genetic origins, 3.74% and 0.20% of genes were ubiquitously mutated and candidate cancer genes mutated at different sites. Tumors from the same patients were clonally unrelated, and thus druggable genes differed. In contrast, in a patient with metachronous tumors of a common genetic origin, the ubiquitously mutated genes were 61.02%, with ubiquitously mutated genes and candidate cancer genes all mutated at the same sites, tumors were clonally related, and some druggable genes were the same. Therefore, two different clonal relationships between metachronous tumors exist in CRC, one is monoclonal and the other is polyclonal. Our findings may help to advance understanding of the differences in metachronous CRCs and the genetic mechanisms of which they originate, and provide new avenues for CRC treatment.
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