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- Title
Detection of an ALK Fusion in Colorectal Carcinoma by Hybrid Capture-Based Assay of Circulating Tumor DNA.
- Authors
Lai, Andrea Z.; Schrock, Alexa B.; Erlich, Rachel L.; Ross, Jeffrey S.; Miller, Vincent A.; Yakirevich, Evgeny; Ali, Siraj M.; Braiteh, Fadi
- Abstract
ALK rearrangements have been observed in 0.05%-2.5% of patients with colorectal cancers (CRCs) and are predicted to be oncogenic drivers largely mutually exclusive of KRAS, NRAS, or BRAF alterations. Here we present the case of a patient with metastatic CRC who was treatment naïve at the time of molecular testing. Initial ALK immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining was negative, but parallel genomic profiling of both circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) and tissue using similar hybrid capture-based assays each identified an identical STRN-ALK fusion. Subsequent ALK IHC staining of the same specimens was positive, suggesting that the initial result was a false negative. This report is the first instance of an ALK fusion in CRC detected using a ctDNA assay.
- Subjects
COLON tumors; DIAGNOSTIC errors; DNA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; GENETIC mutation; RECTUM tumors; GENOMICS
- Publication
Oncologist, 2017, Vol 22, Issue 7, p774
- ISSN
1083-7159
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1634/theoncologist.2016-0376