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Table 2 Studies of ctDNA in ovarian cancer patients related to treatment response monitoring

From: Prediction of the treatment response in ovarian cancer: a ctDNA approach

References

year

No of patients

Identified Abnormalities

Methodology

Gifford et al. [121]

2004

138

hMLH1 methylation

Microsatellite PCR

Swisher et al. [122]

2005

137

p53 mutation

DNA sequencing

Kamat et al. [123]

2006

–

Level

RT-PCR

Capizzi et al. [124]

2008

22

Level

RT-PCR

Kamat et al. [125]

2010

164

Beta-globin

RT-PCR

Wimberger et al. [126]

2011

62

Fluorimetry

Fluorescence

Forshew et al. [127]

2012

38

TP53. Other markers include PTEN, BRAF, KRAS, EGFR, PIK3CA

TAm-Seq, dPCR

Murtaza et al. [128]

2013

3

RB1, ZEB2, BUB1, CES4A, MTOR, PARP8

NGS, qPCR

Choudhuri et al. [129]

2014

100

Level

RT-PCR

Martignetti et al. [130]

2014

1

FGFR2 fusion transcript

RT-PCR

Pereira et al. [131]

2015

22

TP53, PTEN, PIK3CA, MET, KRAS, FBXW7, BRAF

WES, ddPCR, TGS

Cohen et al. [132]

2016

32

CNV

WES

Harris et al. [133]

2016

10

Aberrant chromosomal junctions

RT-PCR

Piskorz et al. [134]

2016

18

TP53 mutation

NGS

Parkinson et al. [135]

2016

40

TP53 mutation

Digital PCR

Vanderstichele [136]

2017

57

CNV

WGS

Phallen et al. [137]

2017

42

55 gene panel including TP53, KIT, ALK, APC, ERBB4 etc

NGS (TEC-Seq) and ddPCR

Flanagan et al. [138]

2017

247

Methylation at CpG sites

NGS

Widschwendter et al. [139]

2017

151

Regions linked to COL23A1, C2CD4D and WNT6

TUC-BS & RRBS

Ratajska et al. [140]

2017

121

BRCA1/2 mutations

NGS

Christie et al. [141]

2017

30

BRCA reversion mutation

NGS

Weigelt et al. [116]

2017

19

BRCA reversion mutation

NGS

Giannopoulou et al. [142]

2018

50

ESR1

RT-MSP

Du et al. [143]

2018

21

CNV and mutant genes including TP53, BRCA1, NOTCH2, DNMT3A etc

NGS

Morikawa et al. [107]

2018

29

KRAS and PIK3CA

ddPCR

Nakabayashi et al. [144]

2018

36

CNV

WGS

Park et al. [109]

2018

4

TP53

ddPCR

Arend et al. [117]

2018

14

50 gene panel

NGS

Lin et al. [145]

2019

97

BRCA reversion mutation, TP53

NGS

Kim et al. [110]

2019

102

TP53 mutant allele

Sanger sequencing/Digital PCR

Oikkonen et al. [118]

2019

12

ERBB2 amplification

NGS

Iwahashi et al. [146]

2019

4

TP53, APC, BRCA1 and KRAS

CAPP-seq

Noguchi et al. [119]

2020

10

gene mutation profiles and blood tumor mutation burden

CAPP-seq

Han et al. [147]

2020

10

88 genes panel

NGS

Alves et al. [148]

2020

11

Level

qPCR

  1. Abbreviations: NGS Next-generation sequencing, RT-PCR Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction, dPCR droplet Polymerase chain reaction, qPCR Allele-specific quantitative PCR, RT-MSP Real-Time methylation specific PCR, CNV Copy number variation, WGS Whole genome sequencing, WES Whole exome sequencing, ddPCR Droplet digital PCR, TGS Targeted gene sequences, TAm-RSeq Targeted amplicon re-sequencing, RRBS Reduced representation bisulphite sequencing, TUC-BS Targeted ultra-high coverage bisulphite sequencing, CAPP-seq Cancer Personalized Profiling by deep Sequencing