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Table 4 Treatments, sampling times, and biomarkers of tumor cells in different tissue compartments from patient 12 during disease progression

From: Single cell mutational analysis of PIK3CA in circulating tumor cells and metastases in breast cancer reveals heterogeneity, discordance, and mutation persistence in cultured disseminated tumor cells from bone marrow

Date sampled

Treatment

Tissue compartment

ER

PR

HER2

PIK3CA mutation in CTCs or DTCs or TCs (primary tumor or distant metastasis)

09/2002

N/A

Primary Tumor

1+ rare

2+, 10%

Neg (IHC 0)

Wild type#

8/24/2009

Exemestane

L2 vertebra bone metastasis (spine)

Negative

Insufficient material

Insufficient material

8/8

9/23/2009

Exemestane

Lung metastasis

3+, 95%

Negative

Neg (FISH ratio 0.56)

Mutation present†

9/30/2009

Tamoxifen started

Blood

-

-

-

0/3

10/8/2009

Tamoxifen

Blood

-

-

-

0/2

1/21/2010

Fulvestrant

Blood

-

-

-

0/4

2/4/2010

Fulvestrant

Blood

-

-

-

0/13

3/4/2010

Fulvestrant

Bone marrow biopsy

Negative

Negative

Negative

24/24

3/11/2010

Cyclophos-phamide started

Blood

-

-

-

10/20

4/15/2010

Cyclophos-phamide

Blood

-

-

-

2/7

7/1/2010

Cyclophos-phamide

Blood

-

-

-

0/27

8/5/2010

Capecitabine + RAD001 (everolimus)

Blood

-

-

-

0/50

10/20/2010

Capecitabine + RAD001 (everolimus)

Blood

-

-

-

0/0

11/11/2010

Capecitabine + RAD001 (everolimus)

Blood

-

-

-

0/2

  1. CTCs circulating tumor cells (from blood), DTCs disseminated tumor cells (from bone marrow), TCs tumor cells from primary tumor or metastatic site.
  2. All detected PIK3CA mutations were heterozygous on exon 9 G1633A (E545K).
  3. #Tumor cells obtained and tested from both H&E slide and formalin fixed paraffin-embedded primary tumor tissue.
  4. †Tumor cells obtained and tested from H&E slide.