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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Genet. 2017 Sep 14;218-219:39–50. doi: 10.1016/j.cancergen.2017.08.006

Table 4.

Concordance between the number of mutations detected in plasma at the time of initial diagnosis and detection of metastasis

ccfDNA mutations at the time of primary versus metastatic disease
Patient Disease Gain of mutations after metastasis Loss of mutations after metastasis Time to metastasis [months]
1 colon AC 40% (4/10) 38% (5/14) 70
2 colon AC 64% (7/11) 20% (1/5) 20
3 colon AC 40% (2/5) 77% (10/13) 12
4 colon AC 0% (0/1) ˆ 92% (12/13) 5
5 colon AC 25% (1/4) 0% (0/3) 1
average 33.8% 45.4% 21.6
6 PDAC 38% (3/8) 58% (7/12) 16
7 PDAC 67% (2/3) 89% (8/9) 9
8 PDAC 80% (4/5) 86% (6/7) 18
9 PDAC 58% (7/12) 38% (3/8) 15
10 PDAC 70% (7/10) 25% (1/4) 7
average 62.6% 59.2% 13

AC, adenocarcinoma; PDAC, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

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hemolysis and wildtype cellular DNA contamination