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The relationship between pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants (PV/LPVs) in genes among patients with a personal and family history of sarcoma and sarcoma risk remains unclear, according to a study presented at the 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois.1
Testing for multiple syndromes in multi-gene hereditary cancer tests increases the probability of detecting a predisposition to cancer. Researchers aimed to describe the yield and distribution of PV/LPV for patients reporting a personal history of sarcoma undergoing panel testing.
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Through retrospective review, they analyzed personal/family history of sarcoma, panel test results, and demographic data for those with a personal history of sarcoma. Patients also underwent panel testing (next-generation sequencing [NGS] and del/dup) of up to 61 genes, as well a TP53 analysis prior or concurrently.
Of the 374 enrolled patients, 53 (14.2%) possessed 1 or more PV/LPV in 14 genes: TP53, BRCA2, CHEK2, BRCA1, ATM, MSH6, MLH1, NBN, BAP1, BRIP1, FLCN, MSH2, PTEN, and RB1.
Approximately 10% of patients reported both a personal and family history of sarcoma, but the likelihood of detecting PV/LPV was not greater than in patients reporting only a personal history.
The data showed BRCA1/2 (15/372, 4.0%) and TP53 (12/372, 3.2%) genes most frequently contained PV/LPV. Nearly half of patients with PV/LPV in non-TP53 genes (17/41, 41.5%) met the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) TP53 testing criteria.
Most of the PV/LPVs were detected in genes where the link to sarcoma is not well defined.
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Findings from the study did not establish a definitive relationship — causal or not — between sarcoma risk and the presence of PV/LPV in genes. There may, however, be potential clinical benefits to performing hereditary cancer risk assessments and multi-gene panel testing in patients with sarcoma, the researchers concluded.
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Reference
- Jackson SA, Baxter MD, Mester J, et al. Multigene hereditary cancer testing in sarcoma patients. J Clin Oncol. 2017;35(suppl; abstr 1518).
