🏫 The James Comprehensive Cancer Center - The Ohio State University
Both TBx & LBx are suitable & complementary for METex14 skipping detection.
✅LBx Pros: Minimally invasive, rapid, feasible for ill patients/inaccessible tumors, boosts enrollment
❌ LBx Cons: Can have lower sensitivity (false negatives) with low ctDNA shedding
Both TBx & LBx are suitable & complementary for METex14 skipping detection.
✅LBx Pros: Minimally invasive, rapid, feasible for ill patients/inaccessible tumors, boosts enrollment
❌ LBx Cons: Can have lower sensitivity (false negatives) with low ctDNA shedding
Further analysis: Among TBx-positive patients with matched LBx results, those who were LBx-negative showed trends for longer DOR, PFS, and OS compared to those who were also LBx-positive. (Fig3)
Further analysis: Among TBx-positive patients with matched LBx results, those who were LBx-negative showed trends for longer DOR, PFS, and OS compared to those who were also LBx-positive. (Fig3)
Why the difference in time-dependent outcomes? LBx-positive patients had:
➡️ Higher baseline radiographic tumor burden
➡️ More extensive disease
➡️ Worse baseline health-related quality of life & symptoms.
Why the difference in time-dependent outcomes? LBx-positive patients had:
➡️ Higher baseline radiographic tumor burden
➡️ More extensive disease
➡️ Worse baseline health-related quality of life & symptoms.