Comprehensive targeted super-deep next generation sequencing enhances differential diagnosis of solitary pulmonary nodules

Journal of Thoracic Disease
Mingzhi YeWenhua Liang

Abstract

A non-invasive method to predict the malignancy of surgery-candidate solitary pulmonary nodules (SPN) is urgently needed. Super-depth next generation sequencing (NGS) of 35 paired tissues and plasma DNA was performed as an attempt to develop an early diagnosis approach. Only ~6% of malignant nodule patients had driver mutations in the circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) with >10,000-fold sequencing depth, and the concordance of mutation between tDNA and ctDNA was 3.9%. The first innovative whole mutation scored model in this study predicted 33.3% of malignant SPN with 100% specificity. These results showed that lung cancer gene-targeted deep capture sequencing is not efficient enough to achieve ideal sensitivity by simply increasing the sequencing depth of ctDNA from early candidates. The sequencing could not be evaluated hotspot mutations in the early tumour stage. Nevertheless, a larger cohort is required to optimize this model, and more techniques may be incorporated to benefit the SPN high-risk population.

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Mar 31, 2021·Critical Reviews in Oncology/hematology·Pasquale PisapiaUmberto Malapelle
May 4, 2021·Frontiers in Oncology·Cláudia FreitasVenceslau Hespanhol
May 25, 2021·Frontiers in Oncology·Radouane El AyachyJean Emmanuel Bibault
Jul 12, 2021·Journal of Thoracic Oncology : Official Publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer·Christian RolfoDavid Gandara
Sep 28, 2021·Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics·Umberto MalapelleChristian Rolfo

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