Multisite external validation of blood test for colorectal neoplasia screening in a majority average-risk screening cohort of 449 subjects.

Authors

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Shai Friedland

Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA

Shai Friedland , Drew Watson , Douglas K. Rex , Ashish Nimgaonkar , Zhen Zhang , Alex Atkins , Ben Hsieh , Jr-Ming Lai , Stephen Su , Jen-chia Wu , Hung-Jen Shao , Jessica Tesoriero , Lindsey Hannah , John McGowan , Daniel S Mishkin , Ekta Gupta , Samir Gupta , John J. Sninsky , Rui Mei

Organizations

Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, CellMax Life, Sunnyvale, CA, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, Center for Biomarker Discovery and Translation, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, Sebela Pharmaceuticals, Roswell, GA, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Boston, MA, Gastroenterologist, Endoscopy Director, Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, CA

Research Funding

No funding sources reported

Background: The FirstSight CRC screening blood test was previously shown to have sensitivities of 92.1% and 54.5% for CRC and AA at a specificity of 90.6% for 1,038 subjects from 18 clinical sites. In this report, we describe the independent external validation of the predefined FirstSight CRC screening blood test with new subjects from 16 sites dispersed across the US, 4 of which are new and did not participate in the previous study. Methods: The validation study included subjects from two sources: Average-risk, asymptomatic screening subjects from screening clinics supplemented with diseased-only subjects from surgical oncology centers. Blood was drawn before bowel prep for colonoscopy or treatment. External validation as well as Monte Carlo cross-validation (MCCV) methods were used to evaluate the performance of the pre-defined FirstSight assay, algorithm, and clinical thresholds in this independent external validation set. Results include sensitivity and specificity to detect CRC and AA and 95% confidence intervals. Results: The study cohort (55.2% female; mean age 56.9 yrs.) consisted of 449 subjects (White 61.7%; Black 14.5%; Hispanic 18%; AAPI and Middle Easterners 5.8%). The majority of them, 376 (84%), were asymptomatic, average-risk screening subjects (including 1 CRC, 53 AA, and all 322 negative subjects). An additional 73 (16%) diseased subjects (39 CRC and 34 AA) were enriched due to low disease prevalence. The FirstSight algorithm derives a test score from 0 to 100 as a quantitative measure of AA and CRC risk with a cutpoint to assign a binary low- or high-risk designation. The previously described cutpoint of 47.2 yielded a test specificity of 90.0%, and 90.0% and 52.9% sensitivity for the detection of CRC and AA, respectively. Here we report a higher cutpoint 50 with identical sensitivities but improved specificity to 90.7%. Point estimates of sensitivity and specificity, including CRC staging, and Clopper-Pearson exact 95% confidence intervals based on the external validation results are presented below. Conclusions: An external validation included 449 subjects from a multi-site, majority average-risk CRC screening study successfully validated the FirstSight Blood Test’s high performance as previously established with 1,038 subjects. The results bring forth confidence in the Test’s reproducibility in a large-scale clinical trial. Clinical trial information: NCT05127096.

Histopathological Category
Cutpoint=50
Pos/NSensitivity (95% CI)
Colorectal Cancer36/4090.0% (76.3%, 97.2%)
Stage I13/1586.6%
Stage II6/6100%
Stage III12/1485.7%
Stage IV5/5100%
Advanced Adenoma
· Adenoma/sessile serrated lesion ≥ 1cm
· high-grade dysplasia
·>= 25% villous histology
46/8752.9% (41.9%, 63.7%)
Neg/NSpecificity (95% CI)
All Non-Diseased292/32290.7% (87.0%, 93.6%)
Nonadvanced adenoma75/8984.3%
Non-neoplastic finding59/6393.7%
Negative colonoscopy158/17092.9%

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2024 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Poster Session C: Cancers of the Colon, Rectum, and Anus

Track

Colorectal Cancer,Anal Cancer

Sub Track

Prevention, Screening, and Hereditary Cancers

Clinical Trial Registration Number

NCT05127096

Citation

J Clin Oncol 42, 2024 (suppl 3; abstr 66)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2024.42.3_suppl.66

Abstract #

66

Poster Bd #

E9

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