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. 2019 Sep 13;9:13261. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-49860-0

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Tumor evolution during treatment based on mutations found in ctDNA. (A) Detailed mutational profile of 11 patients receiving 1st line palliative chemotherapy prior to therapy initiation (baseline), 1.7 ± 0.7 months after therapy initiation (treatment) and at radiologically confirmed disease progression (progression). Patients were sorted by mutation frequency per gene and separated according to intrahepatic (IHCC) or extrahepatic (EHCC) primary tumor localization. Only genes with mutations detected are shown here. (B) Absolute number of mutations per patient is not significantly different in tumor and ctDNA of therapy naive patients (N = 23, P = 0.6997, Mann-Whitney) and between ctDNA samples of therapy naive and pretreated patients (N = 5, P = 0.5519, Mann-Whitney). Bars show mean and range of variation.