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100 1 0 _aBertrums, Eline J.M.
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700 1 0 _aRosendahl Huber, Axel K.M.
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700 1 0 _ade Kanter, Jurrian K.
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700 1 0 _aBrandsma, Arianne M.
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700 1 0 _avan Leeuwen, Anaïs J.C.N.
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700 1 0 _aVerheul, Mark
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700 1 0 _avan den Heuvel-Eibrink, Marry M.
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700 1 0 _aOka, Rurika
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700 1 0 _avan Roosmalen, Markus J.
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700 1 0 _ade Groot-Kruseman, Hester A.
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700 1 0 _aZwaan, C. Michel
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700 1 0 _aGoemans, Bianca F.
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700 1 0 _avan Boxtel, Ruben
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245 0 0 _aElevated Mutational Age in Blood of Children Treated for Cancer Contributes to Therapy-Related Myeloid Neoplasms
260 _bAmerican Association for Cancer Research,
_c2022-08-05.
500 _a/pmc/articles/PMC7613255/
500 _a/pubmed/35678530
520 _aChildhood cancer survivors are confronted with various chronic health conditions like therapy-related malignancies. However, it is unclear how exposure to chemotherapy contributes to the mutation burden and clonal composition of healthy tissues early in life. Here, we studied mutation accumulation in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC) before and after cancer treatment of 24 children. Of these children, 19 developed therapy-related myeloid neoplasms (t-MN). Posttreatment HSPCs had an average mutation burden increase comparable to what treatment-naïve cells accumulate during 16 years of life, with excesses up to 80 years. In most children, these additional mutations were induced by clock-like processes, which are also active during healthy aging. Other patients harbored mutations that could be directly attributed to treatments like platinum-based drugs and thiopurines. Using phylogenetic inference, we demonstrate that most t-MN in children originate after the start of treatment and that leukemic clones become dominant during or directly after chemotherapy exposure. SIGNIFICANCE: Our study shows that chemotherapy increases the mutation burden of normal blood cells in cancer survivors. Only few drugs damage the DNA directly, whereas in most patients, chemotherapy-induced mutations are caused by processes similar to those present during normal aging. This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 1825
540 _a©2022 The Authors; Published by the American Association for Cancer Research
540 _ahttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This open access article is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.
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690 _aResearch Briefs
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786 0 _nCancer Discov
856 4 1 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.CD-22-0120
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