Adjuvant chemotherapy guided by circulating tumour DNA in stage II colon cancer


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Results have been reported for a randomized clinical trial assessing the use of adjuvant chemotherapy for colon cancer in patients with circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) post-surgery.


Post-surgery ctDNA predicts low recurrence-free survival. Patients with stage II colon cancer were assigned to either management guided by presence of ctDNA 4 or 7 weeks after surgery (n = 


302), initiating a chemotherapy regimen, or standard management (n = 153). Two-year recurrence-free survival (the primary end point) for ctDNA-guided management was noninferior to standard


management (93.5% and 92.4%, respectively), and the ctDNA-guided approach reduced use of adjuvant chemotherapy.


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