TY - JOUR
T1 - Development and validation of a quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay to evaluate minimal residual disease for T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and follicular lymphoma
AU - Hosler, Gregory A.
AU - Bash, Robert O.
AU - Bai, Xin
AU - Jain, Vinay
AU - Scheuermann, Richard H.
PY - 1999/4
Y1 - 1999/4
N2 - The presence of occult disease in cancer patients after therapy is one of the major problems faced by oncologists. For example, although 95% of pediatric T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) patients have a complete therapeutic response to multiagent chemotherapy, half will relapse, indicating that they must have harbored low levels of residual cancer cells at the end of therapy. Sensitive detection assays promise to help identify those patients that carry this minimal residual disease (MRD) and are at risk of relapse. We have developed and validated a quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay targeting tumor-specific chromosomal rearrangements, including del(1) involving the tal-1 locus in pediatric T-ALL and t(14; 18) involving the bcl-2 locus in follicular lymphoma. This quantitative PCR assay utilizes a synthetic internal calibration standard (ICS) that contains priming sequences identical to those found flanking the chromosomal rearrangement breakpoints. Using this ICS-PCR method, the limits of detection were 5 tumor cells at ratios of I tumor cell in 105 normal cells and a linear range up to 100% tumor cells. This ICS-PCR method has also performed well in terms of precision and accuracy as indicated by low coefficients of variation, minimal random, proportional, and constant errors, and good clinical sensitivity and specificity characteristics. This technique will allow for the evaluation of parameters such as the rate of therapeutic response and the levels of MRD as predictors of patient outcome.
AB - The presence of occult disease in cancer patients after therapy is one of the major problems faced by oncologists. For example, although 95% of pediatric T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) patients have a complete therapeutic response to multiagent chemotherapy, half will relapse, indicating that they must have harbored low levels of residual cancer cells at the end of therapy. Sensitive detection assays promise to help identify those patients that carry this minimal residual disease (MRD) and are at risk of relapse. We have developed and validated a quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay targeting tumor-specific chromosomal rearrangements, including del(1) involving the tal-1 locus in pediatric T-ALL and t(14; 18) involving the bcl-2 locus in follicular lymphoma. This quantitative PCR assay utilizes a synthetic internal calibration standard (ICS) that contains priming sequences identical to those found flanking the chromosomal rearrangement breakpoints. Using this ICS-PCR method, the limits of detection were 5 tumor cells at ratios of I tumor cell in 105 normal cells and a linear range up to 100% tumor cells. This ICS-PCR method has also performed well in terms of precision and accuracy as indicated by low coefficients of variation, minimal random, proportional, and constant errors, and good clinical sensitivity and specificity characteristics. This technique will allow for the evaluation of parameters such as the rate of therapeutic response and the levels of MRD as predictors of patient outcome.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0002-9440(10)65355-2
DO - 10.1016/S0002-9440(10)65355-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 10233841
AN - SCOPUS:0032923803
SN - 0002-9440
VL - 154
SP - 1023
EP - 1035
JO - American Journal of Pathology
JF - American Journal of Pathology
IS - 4
ER -