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Longitudinal analysis of circulating tumor cell numbers improves tracking metastatic breast cancer progression. | LitMetric

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  • * This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic significance of circulating tumor cell (CTC) numbers and their changes over time in patients with advanced breast cancer, alongside analyzing genetic variations in CTCs linked to resistance to hormonal therapy.
  • * Using a novel image-based method for isolating CTCs from blood samples of 135 patients, the research found that CTC status is crucial for predicting survival and emphasizes the benefits of ongoing monitoring during treatment.

Article Abstract

Hormone-responsive breast cancer represents the most common type and has the best prognosis, but still approximately 40% of patients with this type can develop distant metastases, dramatically worsening the patient's survival. Monitoring metastatic breast cancer (mBC) for signs of progression is an important part of disease management. Circulating tumor cell (CTC) detection and molecular characteristics gain importance as a diagnostic tool, but do not represent a clinical standard and its value as a predictor of progression is not yet established. The main objective of this study was to estimate the prognostic value of not only the CTC numbers, but also the dynamics of the CTC numbers in the same patient during the continuous evaluation of CTCs in patients with advanced breast cancer. The other objective was to assess the molecular changes in CTCs compared to primary tumor samples by genetic analysis of the seven genes associated with estrogen signaling pathway, mutations in which are often responsible for the resistance to endocrine therapy, and subsequent progression. This approach was taken to evaluate if genetic analysis of CTCs can be used in tracking the resistance, signaling that hormonal therapy should be replaced. Consequently, this report presents the results of a longitudinal CTC study based on three subsequent blood collections from 135 patients with metastatic breast cancer, followed by molecular analysis of the isolated single CTCs. CTCs were detected and isolated using an image-based, EpCAM-independent system CytoTrack; this approach allowed evaluation of EpCAM expression in detected CTCs. Isolated CTCs were subjected to NGS analysis to assess mutational changes. The results confirm the importance of the status of the CTC for progression-free survival and overall survival and provide new data on the dynamics of the CTC during a long monitoring period and in relation to clinical progression, highlighting the advantage of constant monitoring over the single count of CTC. Furthermore, high genetic and phenotypic inter- and intrapatient heterogeneity observed in CTCs suggest that metastatic lesions are divergent. High genetic heterogeneity in the matching CTC/primary tumor samples may indicate early dissemination. The tendency towards the accumulation of activating/oncogenic mutation in CTCs, leading to anti-estrogen resistant disease, was not confirmed in this study.

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