Clinically Relevant Genomic Findings in Routine Oncology Practice: A 31-Gene Pan-Cancer Analysis Benchmarked Against MSK-IMPACT 50K

Background/Objectives: Real-world genomic profiling can identify clinically relevant alterations, but observed frequencies and therapeutic relevance depend on assay design, diagnostic resolution, and cohort composition. We characterized a routine-practice solid-tumor cohort and benchmarked genomic patterns against MSK-IMPACT 50K. Methods: This retrospective study included 3018 patients and 3187 sequencing sample identifiers analyzed by targeted panels or exome sequencing at the National Medical Research Radiological Centre in 2021–2026. Diagnoses were harmonized using OncoTree. The principal analysis used a prespecified 31-gene single-nucleotide variant (SNV)/small insertion/deletion (indel) set restricted to OncoKB Oncogenic or Likely Oncogenic variants. Potential therapeutic relevance was assessed using an organ-level European Society for Medical Oncology Scale for Clinical Actionability of molecular Targets (ESCAT) tier I–II framework; microsatellite instability (MSI), missense-only tumor mutational burden (TMB), and homologous recombination deficiency (HRD)-sum were analyzed in assay-specific subsets. Results: Major organ-associated findings included KRAS (17.9%) and EGFR (14.0%) in lung tumors, PIK3CA in breast tumors (23.6%), KRAS in pancreatic (70.2%) and bowel tumors (35.8%), BRAF in skin tumors (36.4%), and PTEN in uterine tumors (39.3%). Selected frequencies differed from MSK-IMPACT. In breast cancer, PIK3CA frequency was lower in the dedicated triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cohort than in the remaining cohort (15.7% vs. 25.0%), but this explained only part of the benchmark difference. Among 3001 unique organ-mapped patients, 625 (20.8%) had at least one potential ESCAT tier I–II SNV/indel or MSI finding; 558 (18.6%) had tier I, 53 (1.8%) tier II, and 14 (0.5%) were classified as I/II as the highest category. Conclusions: Routine sequencing reproduced recognizable tumor-site-associated patterns while revealing quantitative differences from MSK-IMPACT. Approximately one fifth of organ-mapped patients had a potential ESCAT tier I–II finding, representing molecular therapeutic-information yield rather than confirmed treatment eligibility or benefit.

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Biomedicines
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2026-10-28
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https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines14112474
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Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
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Clinically Relevant Genomic Findings in Routine Oncology Practice: A 31-Gene Pan-Cancer Analysis Benchmarked Against MSK-IMPACT 50K

Peter Alekseevich Shatalov, Дарья Валерьевна Багдасарова, Веселовский Егор Михайлович, Alexey Aleksandrovich Traspov et al.
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Clinically Relevant Genomic Findings in Routine Oncology Practice: A 31-Gene Pan-Cancer Analysis Benchmarked Against MSK-IMPACT 50K

Peter Alekseevich Shatalov, Дарья Валерьевна Багдасарова, Веселовский Егор Михайлович, Alexey Aleksandrovich Traspov, Anna Petrovna Shinkarkina, Ирина Алексеевна Леухина, Alena Valerevna Murzaeva, Maria Alexandrovna Revkova, Elena Alekseevna Kirillova, Maria Pavlovna Raygorodskaya, Andrei Kaprin, Petr Viktorovich Shegai, Victoria Sergeevna Surkova, Maria Konstantinovna Trukhanova, Nikita Maksimovich Filimonov
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Background/Objectives: Real-world genomic profiling can identify clinically relevant alterations, but observed frequencies and therapeutic relevance depend on assay design, diagnostic resolution, and cohort composition. We characterized a routine-practice solid-tumor cohort and benchmarked genomic patterns against MSK-IMPACT 50K. Methods: This retrospective study included 3018 patients and 3187 sequencing sample identifiers analyzed by targeted panels or exome sequencing at the National Medical Research Radiological Centre in 2021–2026. Diagnoses were harmonized using OncoTree. The principal analysis used a prespecified 31-gene single-nucleotide variant (SNV)/small insertion/deletion (indel) set restricted to OncoKB Oncogenic or Likely Oncogenic variants. Potential therapeutic relevance was assessed using an organ-level European Society for Medical Oncology Scale for Clinical Actionability of molecular Targets (ESCAT) tier I–II framework; microsatellite instability (MSI), missense-only tumor mutational burden (TMB), and homologous recombination deficiency (HRD)-sum were analyzed in assay-specific subsets. Results: Major organ-associated findings included KRAS (17.9%) and EGFR (14.0%) in lung tumors, PIK3CA in breast tumors (23.6%), KRAS in pancreatic (70.2%) and bowel tumors (35.8%), BRAF in skin tumors (36.4%), and PTEN in uterine tumors (39.3%). Selected frequencies differed from MSK-IMPACT. In breast cancer, PIK3CA frequency was lower in the dedicated triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cohort than in the remaining cohort (15.7% vs. 25.0%), but this explained only part of the benchmark difference. Among 3001 unique organ-mapped patients, 625 (20.8%) had at least one potential ESCAT tier I–II SNV/indel or MSI finding; 558 (18.6%) had tier I, 53 (1.8%) tier II, and 14 (0.5%) were classified as I/II as the highest category. Conclusions: Routine sequencing reproduced recognizable tumor-site-associated patterns while revealing quantitative differences from MSK-IMPACT. Approximately one fifth of organ-mapped patients had a potential ESCAT tier I–II finding, representing molecular therapeutic-information yield rather than confirmed treatment eligibility or benefit.

BiomedicinesVol. 14(11)
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RU), Lomonosov Moscow State University (RU), Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (RU), Medical Radiological Research Center (RU), Moscow State University (TJ), Universitat Politècnica de València (ES)
Russian Science Foundation
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