Omali Pitiyarachchi, Yeh Chen Lee, Hao-Wen Sim, Sivatharsny Srirangan, Cristina Mapagu, Judy Kirk, Paul R Harnett, Rosemary L Balleine, David D L Bowtell, Goli Samimi, Alison H Brand, Deborah J Marsh, Philip Beale, Lyndal Anderson, Natalie Bouantoun, Pamela Provan, Susan J Ramus, Anna DeFazio, Michael Friedlander
BACKGROUND: Somatic pathogenic variants (PVs) in homologous recombination DNA repair (HR)-related genes found in high-grade serous ovarian carcinomas (HGSC) are not well-characterised in older patients (≥70 years). This may reflect low testing rates in older patients. METHODS: Data from 1210 HGSC patients in AACR Project GENIE and 324 patients in an independent dataset INOVATe were analysed. Cases where somatic variants could be distinguished from germline variants were included, and analysis was restricted to those with a somatic TP53 variant, to ensure cases were HGSC...
February 18, 2023: Translational Oncology