Novel Approach for Clinical Validation of the cobas KRAS Mutation Test in Advanced Colorectal Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Our objective was to assess the performance of the cobas test versus comparators for KRAS mutation status and predicting clinical response to anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) therapy in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).

Methods

mCRC samples from 398 patients from Roche study NO16968 (XELOXA) and 82 supplemental samples were tested with the cobas(®) KRAS mutation test (cobas test), the therascreen(®) KRAS RGQ PCR kit test (therascreen test), and Sanger sequencing as the reference method for detecting mutations in codons 12/13.

Results

For 461 eligible samples, the cobas test, therascreen test, and sequencing had invalid results for 5.2, 10.8, and 2.6 % of specimens, respectively. Valid cobas and therascreen test results had similar KRAS

SUBMITTER: Sharma A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4879158 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature