Clinician utilization of a plasma-only, multiomic minimal residual disease (MRD) assay in 2,000 consecutive patients with colorectal cancer (CRC).

Authors

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Katrina Sophia Pedersen

Katrina Sophia Pedersen , Leslie A. Bucheit , Benjamin R. Tan Jr., Zishuo Ian Hu , Michael Shusterman , Caroline Weipert , Kimberly Banks

Organizations

Guardant Health, Redwood City, CA, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island, Mineola, NY, Guardant Health, Inc., Redwood City, CA

Research Funding

No funding received

Background: Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) for detection of MRD in resected CRC is a prognostic factor for recurrence. However, current utilization of available commercial tests has not been investigated. We report real world clinician use of a validated, plasma-only, multiomic MRD assay (Guardant Reveal) in a large unselected CRC cohort. Methods: Results from Guardant Reveal MRD testing ordered for clinical care in the US were retrospectively queried for the first 2,000 consecutive CRC cases. Pts could be enrolled in a post-operative program to inform adjuvant treatment (PostOP, up to 3 tests within 3-16 weeks post-resection) or a surveillance program (SP) for recurrent tests post-treatment. Pts could have tests across both programs and/or one-time tests. All subsequent tests for the first 2,000 patients were included for analysis (data cut-off: 1/15/2022). Recurrent programs were analyzed for stage (stg) II/III only. Clinical factors were derived from test requisition forms. Results: 2681 tests from 1993 pts were analyzed; 7 pts were excluded due to missing cancer stage. Median age was 64 years (range: 21-65), 55% were male, most (94%) had stg II/III disease (Table). ctDNA was detected in 25% of all pts; detection increased with stage (Table) as expected. Among stg II/III pts, 330 (21%) had only PostOP test/s, 950 (51%) SP only, 54 (3%) had both PostOP and SP; the remainder had one-time test/s outside defined programs. In Stg II/III pts with >1 PostOP test (26%/17% respectively), ctDNA was detected in 102/384 (27%), of whom 72% had it detected on the first test. The median time from surgery to first result was 5 weeks (10 weeks for a second result). 95% of all stg II/III pts had results from PostOP testing before week 12 post-resection. In Stg II/III pts with >1 SP test (47%/54% respectively), ctDNA was detected in 244/1024 (24%), of whom 87% had it detected on a first test. The average time from date of surgery to first surveillance test was 305 days (median: 489, range:51-4618). Conclusions: ctDNA detection rates by a plasma-only multiomic MRD assay in this large CRC clinical cohort are similar to published rates. ctDNA orders by clinicians were most frequent in Stg II/III surveillance settings followed by PostOp, consistent with the population size of eligible patients for PostOp vs. Surveillance use-case. Importantly, nearly all pts tested PostOP had results prior to 12 weeks post-resection, which may inform adjuvant therapy decisions. These findings should be correlated with clinical outcomes to improve the utilization and utility of MRD testing in adjuvant management of CRC.

Distribution of cancer stage (stg) and ctDNA detection rates.


Pts analyzed
ctDNA detected - overall (% of stg)
Stg I
20 (1%)
0 (0%)
Stg II
746 (37%)
134 (18%)
Stg III
1126 (57%)
324 (29%)
Stg IV
101 (5%)
35 (37%)
Total
1993
494/1993 (25%)

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2022 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Publication Only

Session Title

Gastrointestinal Cancer—Colorectal and Anal

Track

Gastrointestinal Cancer—Colorectal and Anal

Sub Track

Colorectal Cancer–Local-Regional Disease

Citation

J Clin Oncol 40, 2022 (suppl 16; abstr e15586)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2022.40.16_suppl.e15586

Abstract #

e15586

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