Table 1 Characteristics and summary of WGS outcome.

From: Personalised selection of experimental treatment in patients with advanced solid cancer is feasible using whole-genome sequencing

Patient characteristics

No° patients

31

Age in years, median (range)

59 (32–79)

Male

18 (58%)

Female

13 (42%)

ECOG performance score

 0

8 (26%)

 1

23 (74%)

Royal Marsden Hospital prognostic score

 Median

1

 0

4 (13%)

 1

6 (19%)

 2

8 (26%)

 3

0 (0%)

 Missing

13 (42%)

Median number of sites of metastases (range)

2 (1–5)

Sites of metastases

 Lymph nodes

20 (65%)

 Liver

14 (45%)

 Bone

12 (39%)

 Lung

11 (35%)

 Soft tissue

10 (32%)

 Other

4 (13%)

 Brain

0 (0%)

Previous systemic treatment

 Yes

27 (87%)

 No

4 (13%)

Mean number of treatment lines (range)

2 (0-8)

Biopsy procedures (n = 31)

Biopsy sites

 Liver

13 (42%)

 Soft tissue (muscle, fascia)

7 (23%)

 Lymph nodes

4 (13%)

 Bone

2 (7%)

 Lung

2 (7%)

 Other

3 (10%)

Sufficient tumour purity

 Yes

29 (94%)

 No

2 (6%)

Median time to results in calendar days (range)

15 (10–42)

Molecular characteristics (n = 29)

Tumour mutational burden

 Low

20 (69%)

 High

9 (31%)

Microsatellite stable

28 (97%)

Microsatellite instability/mismatch repair deficient

1 (3%) / 2 (7%)

Homologous recombination deficient

1 (5%)

Homologous recombination proficient

19 (95%)

Median number of variants in driver genes (range)

5 (1–76)

Clinical trial inclusion (n = 31)

Patients with at least one actionable biomarkera

26 (84%)

Patient who received treatment with matched drug

11 (35%)

Median time from biopsy to start treatment in business days (range)

35 (25–45)

  1. aAlterations with an ESCAT I, II, III, IV or a OncoKb level of evidence of 1–4.