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Concordant chromosome 3 results in paired choroidal melanoma biopsies and subsequent tumour resection specimens
  1. Sarah E Coupland1,
  2. Helen Kalirai1,
  3. Vivian Ho2,
  4. Sophie Thornton1,
  5. Bertil E Damato2,3,
  6. Heinrich Heimann2
  1. 1Department of Pathology, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital Trust (RLBUHT), University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
  2. 2Department of Ophthalmology, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital Trust (RLBUHT), Liverpool, UK
  3. 3Ocular Oncology Service, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
  1. Correspondence to Prof Sarah E Coupland, Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, 6th Floor Duncan Building, Daulby Street, Liverpool L69 3GA, UK; s.e.coupland{at}liverpool.ac.uk

Abstract

Background/aim The study's aim was to compare chromosome 3 aberrations of choroidal melanoma (CM) as determined by multiplex ligation dependent probe amplification (MLPA) or microsatellite analysis (MSA) in intraocular tumour biopsies with those results obtained from subsequent endoresection/enucleation of the same CM.

Methods A retrospective cohort of 28 patients with CM seen between 2007 and 2014 at the Liverpool Ocular Oncology Centre was analysed. Prognostic genetic testing, for chromosome 3 status, was performed on all tumour specimens, either by MLPA or MSA, depending on DNA yield. In nine cases genetic testing was performed on a sample taken after radiotherapy; four of these had genetic information pre- and post-radiotherapy.

Results Fourteen biopsy specimens were analysed by MLPA and 14 by MSA. Twenty-seven endoresection or enucleation specimens were analysed by MLPA, and a single enucleation specimen by MSA. Chromosome 3 data showed prognostic concordance for the patient-matched samples in all 28 cases including 4 cases where samples were taken pre pre- and post radiotherapy. Thirteen cases were classified as monosomy 3 and 12 as disomy 3. Two cases had a loss of chromosome arm 3q in both samples and a single case showed loss of 3p in the biopsy sample with complete monosomy 3 in the subsequent enucleation sample taken 5 months later.

Conclusions Intraocular biopsy of CM yields similar prognostic information to larger surgical specimens. Initial evidence, that genetic testing can be successfully conducted post radiotherapy, is also provided.

Trial registration number NITRO trial, ISRCTN35236442.

  • Choroid
  • Neoplasia
  • Pathology

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