To investigate the evolutionary genomic landscape, explore the genetic tumor heterogeneity and microenvironment of multiple primary lung cancer (MPLC) by using tissue genetic analysis and circulating tumor DNA detection, in order to provide robust evidence for the diagnosis, treatment, and surveillance of MPLC.
Multiple primary lung cancer (MPLC) has become a worldwide problem due to the difficulty in diagnosis, treatment and surveillance. Although exploring tumour clonal heterogeneity and microenvironment can help understand cancer evolution and impact therapeutic outcome, study is still lacking in this field on MPLC. Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) are short DNA fragments, which can be obtained conveniently and non-invasively, providing comprehensive views of the tumor as were shed by tumor cells from multiple tumor regions. Therefore, we design a prospective study of patients with surgically treated MPLC, aiming to use ctDNA technique to define the evolutionary landscape of MPLC through inter-tumor and intra-tumor heterogeneity by multi-region sampling and genetic analysis. We will also explore the the microenvironment by RNA sequencing and T cell receptor sequencing. This study may help understand the genetic evolution and microenvironment of MPLC, and provide evidence for the diagnosis, treatment and surveillance of these patients.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
20
Tumor heterogeneity of multiple primary lung cancer
Explore the intra-tumor and inter-tumor genetic heterogeneity by analysis of clonal and subclonal mutations detected by ctDNA.
Time frame: 3 year
Microenvironment of multiple primary lung cancer
Using RNA sequencing and T cell receptor (TCR) sequencing to evaluate the microenvironment of each lesion of multiple primary lung cancer, including T cell receptpr clonality ,diversity , evenness, and richness.
Time frame: 3 year
Correlation between ctDNA and clonal variation
Explore the correlation between the detection rate of ctDNA and subclonal mutations of different tumor sites detected by genetic analysis.
Time frame: 3 year
Correlation between ctDNA and tumor burden
Explore the correlation between the detection rate of ctDNA and tumor burden.
Time frame: 3 year
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