Yasunori Kogure, Hiroshi Handa, Yuta Ito, Masaki Ri, Yuichi Horigome, Masaki Iino, Yoriko Harazaki, Takahiro Kobayashi, Masahiro Abe, Tadao Ishida, Shigeki Ito, Hiromi Iwasaki, Junya Kuroda, Hirohiko Shibayama, Kazutaka Sunami, Hiroyuki Takamatsu, Hideto Tamura, Toshiaki Hayashi, Kiwamu Akagi, Tomohiro Shinozaki, Takahiro Yoshida, Ikuo Mori, Shinsuke Iida, Takahiro Maeda, Keisuke Kataoka
It remains elusive how driver mutations, including those detected in circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), affect prognosis in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM). Here we performed targeted-capture sequencing using bone marrow plasma cells (BMPC) and ctDNA of 261 RRMM cases uniformly treated with ixazomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone in a multicenter, prospective, observational study. We detected 24 and 47 recurrently mutated genes in BMPC and ctDNA, respectively. In addition to clonal hematopoiesis-associated mutations, varying proportion of driver mutations, particularly TP53 mutations (59...
March 1, 2024: Blood