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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 5.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA. 2017 Sep 5;318(9):825–835. doi: 10.1001/jama.2017.11137

Table 4.

Cases for Which Germline Genetic Information Affected Discussion or Implementation of Therapeutic Strategies

Outcome Cases, No.
With Clinically Actionable Mutations (n = 182) With Clinically Actionable Mutations Incremental to Phenotype-Based Assessment (n = 101)
Discussion or initiation of targeted therapy 38 17
Targeted therapy administered 11a 6a
 PARP inhibitors 9b 4c
 Platinum-based therapy 4d 2e

Abbreviation: PARP, poly adenosine diphosphate–ribose polymerase.

a

Not including 1 case of hypermutated prostate cancer with a PMS2 variant with planning of immunotherapy treatment in progress. Patients may have received more than 1 targeted therapy.

b

Includes 3 cases of prostate cancer with ATM mutations, 2 cases of prostate cancer with BRCA2 mutations, and 1 case of biliary cancer and 3 cases of pancreatic cancer with BRCA1/2 mutations.

c

Includes 1 case of biliary cancer with BRCA2 mutation, 1 case of pancreatic cancer with BRCA2 mutation, and 2 cases of prostate cancer with ATM mutations.

d

Includes 3 cases of prostate cancer with ATM and BRCA2 mutations and 1 case of pancreatic cancer with BRCA1 mutation (2 of these cases also received PARP inhibitors).

e

Includes 1 case of prostate cancer with ATM mutation and 1 case of prostate cancer with BRCA2 mutation.