| Literature DB >> 28848675 |
David Goldstein1,2, Charlotte Lemech1,2, Juan Valle3,4.
Abstract
Biliary tract carcinoma is a collective term for a group of rare gastrointestinal cancers. This overview outlines the key pathways and specialised therapeutics in biliary cancer and the emerging role of immunotherapy by highlighting the rationale and selected examples of studies in each area.Entities:
Keywords: biliary cancer
Year: 2017 PMID: 28848675 PMCID: PMC5559907 DOI: 10.1136/esmoopen-2016-000152
Source DB: PubMed Journal: ESMO Open ISSN: 2059-7029
Incidence of molecular mutations in biliary tract cancer as determined by genomic sequencing10
| Mutation | Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (%) | Extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (%) | Gall bladder cancer (%) |
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| 3 | 11 | 16 |
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| 5 | 3 | 1 |
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| 15–22 | 42–47 | 11–19.2 |
| PI3KCA substitution | 5 | 7 | 14 |
| FGFR1-3 fusion | 11–12.5 | 0 | 3 |
| CDKN2A/B loss | 18 | 17 | 19 |
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| 15–23 | 3–4 | 0 |
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| 11–20 | 12 | 11–13 |
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| 4 | 0 | 0 |
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| 9–25 | 0 | 4–13 |
Figure 1Molecular spectra of BTC. In addition to subtype-specific characteristics, alterations were identified that were common to ICCite targetable trahepatic cholangiocarcinoma and ECC or common to all three subtypes. Blue symbols indicae genes.1
Completed clinical trials with targeted therapies, alone or in combination with chemotherapy, in biliary tract cancers
| Therapeutic regimen | Authors | Patients (n) | End points | ||
| EGFR | |||||
| Cetuximab | RR | PFS | OS | ||
| GEM and cetuximab | Borbath | 44 | 20.4 | 6 mPFS 47 | 13.5 |
| GEMOX and cetuximab | Gruenberger | 30 | 63% | 8.8 | 15.2 |
| First-line versus GEMOX ph2 | Malka | 150 | 23 vs 29 | 6 vs 5.3 | 11 vs 12.4 |
| First-line versus GEMOX ph2 | Chen | 122 | 27 vs 15 | 6.7 vs 4.1 | 10.6 vs 9.8 |
| Second-line ph2 | Paule | 9 | 33% | EGFR low: 4 vs high: 7 | EGFR low: 7 vs high: 9 |
| GEMCAP versus cetuximab | Rubovszky | 34 | 17.6 | 8.6 | 15.7 |
| Panitumumab | |||||
| GEMOX and panitumumab | Hezel | 31 | 45% | 10.6 | 20.3 |
| GEMOX-CAP and panitumumab | Jensen | 46 | 33 | 8.3 | 10 |
| GEM-IRINO and panitumumab | Sohal | 35 | 39 | 9.7 | 12.9 |
| GEMCIS and panitumumab versus GEMCIS in KRAS WT | Vogel | 93 | 45 vs 39, pNS | 6.7 vs 8.2, pNS | 12.8 vs 21.4, pNS |
| Erlotinib | |||||
| GEMOX and erlotinib versus GEMOX | Lee | 268 | 30 vs 16 | 5.8 vs 4.2 | 9.5 vs 9.5 |
| Docetaxel and erlotinib | Chiorean | 11 | 0 | 5.7 | |
| Erlotinib | Philip | 42 | 8 | 2.6 | 7.5 |
| HER2 | |||||
| Lapatinib | Ramanathan | 17 | 0 | 1.8 | 5.2 |
| Trastuzumab | Kaseb | 4 | 50 | NR | NR |
| GEMCIS and afatinib | Moehler | 9 | NR | 158 days | 235 days |
| VEGF and multitarget | |||||
| Bevacizumab | |||||
| GEMOX and bevacizumab | Zhu | 35 | 40 | 7 | 12.7 |
| GEMCAP and bevacizumab | Iyer | 50 | 72 | 8.1 | 11.3 |
| Sorafenib | |||||
| First-line ph2 | El-Khoueiry | 31 | 0 | 3 | 9 |
| Anyline ph2 | Bengala | 46 | 2 | 2.3 | 4.4 |
| GEM-sorafenib versus GEM | Moehler | 102 | 8 vs 6 | 3 vs 4.9 | 8.4 vs 11.2 |
| GEMCIS and sorafenib | Lee | 39 | NR | 6.5 | 14.4 |
| Sunitinib | |||||
| Second-line ph1 | Yi | 56 | 9 | 1.7 | 4.8 |
| Second-line ph2 | Neuzillet | 53 | 15 | 5.2 | 9.6 |
| Cediranib | |||||
| GEMCIS and cediranib versus GEMCIS | Valle | 124 | 44 vs 19 | 8 vs 7.4 | 14.1 vs 11.9 |
| Vandetanib | Santoro | 173 | 4 | 105 days | 228 days |
| FGFR | |||||
| BGJ398 in CC with FGFR2 | Javle | 26 | 14 | NR | NR |
| ODM-203 | Ahnert | 24 (1 CC with FGFR fusion) | 8 | NR | NR (>40 weeks for CC pt) |
| MAPK pathway | |||||
| Selumetinib | Bekaii-Saab | 28 | 12 | 3.7 | 9.8 |
| GEMCIS and selumetinib | Bridgewater | 12 | 37.5 | 6.4 | NR |
| Trametinib | Ioka | 20 | 5 | 10.6 weeks | NR |
| Binemetinib and GEMCIS | Lowery | 12 | 50 | 6.4 | 9.1 |
| MK-2206 | Ahn | 8 | NR | 1.7 | 3.5 |
| c-MET | |||||
| Tivantinib + gemcitabine | Pant | 20 | 20 | NR | NR |
| Cabozanitib | Goyal | 19 | 0 | 1.8 | 5.2 |
| Multiagent/Other | |||||
| Bevacizumab and erlotinib | Lubner | 49 | 12 | 4.4 | 9.9 |
| Sorafenib and erlotinib | El-Khoueiry | 34 | 7 | 2 | 6 |
| Bortezomib | Denlinger | 20 | 5 | 1.6 | 9.5 |
| Pazopanib and trametinib | Shroff | 25 | 5 | 4.3 | 6.7 |
| GEMOX-CAP and panitumumab versus bev | Jensen | 88 | 46 vs 18 | 6.1 vs 8.2 | 9.5 vs 12.3 |
| IDH1 | |||||
| AG-120 | Burris | 20 | 5 | NR | 5 SD>6 months |
| WNT pathway | |||||
| DKN-01 | Eads | 22 ongoing | 33% (3 from 9 evaluable) | NR | NR |
| Solid tumour studies | |||||
| GDC-0919 (IDO1) | Nayak | 19 (1 CC) | NR | NR | 1 CC SD>225 days |
CAP, capecitabine; CIS, cisplatin; DCR, disease control rate; EGFR, epidermal growth factor receptor; FGFR, fibroblast growth factor receptor; GEM, gemcitabine; HER2, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2; IDH, isocitrate dehydrogenase; IRINO, irinotecan; KRAS, Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homologue; MAPK, mitogen-activated protein kinase; OS, overall survival; OX, oxaliplatin; PD, progressive disease; PFS, progression-free survival; ph, phase; RR, response rate; VEGF, vascular endothelial growth factor; WT, wild-type.
New therapies under evaluation in biliary tract cancers
| Therapeutic regimen | Target | Phase | ClinicalTrials.gov identifier | Status |
| VEGF and multitarget | ||||
| Ramucirumab | VEGFR2 | 2 | NCT02520141 | Recruiting |
| GEMCIS and ramucirumab or merestinib | VEGFR2 | 2 | NCT02711553 | Recruiting |
| GEMOX and sorafenib | VEGFR-2/3, PDGFR-β, B-Raf, C-Raf | 1/2 | NCT00955721 | Completed (efficacy not reported) |
| GEM and sorafenib | VEGFR-2/3, PDGFR-β, B-Raf, C-Raf | |||
| FOLFOX and cediranib | VEGFR | 2 | NCT01229111 | Not recruiting (no results) |
| Regorafenib | VEGFR1-3, c-KIT, TIE-2, PDGFR-β, C-Raf, B-Raf, p38 MAPK, FGFR1-2, Ret | 2 | NCT02115542 | Recruiting |
| MAPK | ||||
| Trametinib versus CAP/5 FU | MEK 1/2 | 2 | NCT02042443 | Ongoing (not recruiting) |
| Binimetinib (MEK162) and GEMCIS | MEK 1/2 | 2 | NCT01828034 | Active (not recruiting) |
| Binimetinib and GEMOX | MEK 1/2 | 1 |
| Suspended (no results) |
| Binimetinib (MEK162) and capecitabine | MEK | 1 | NCT02773459 | Recruiting |
| Selumetinib (at different doses) and GEMCIS | MEK 1/2 | 2 | NCT02151084 | Recruiting |
| MEK162 and capecitabine | MEK | 1 | NCT02773459 | Recruiting |
| mTOR | ||||
| Everolimus | mTOR | 2 | NCT00973713 | Unknown (not verified on ClinicalTrials.gov) |
| GEMCIS and everolimus | mTOR | 1 | NCT00949949 | Not recruiting (no results) |
| Other | ||||
| ARG 087 | FGFR | 1/2 | NCT01752920 | Recruiting |
| Cabozantinib | c-MET, VEGFR2 | 2 | NCT01954745 | Active, not recruiting |
| AG-221 | IDH2 mutation | 1/2 | NCT02273739 | Completed (not reported) |
| GEMCIS and ADH1 (Exherin) | N-cadherin | 1 | NCT01825603 | Recruiting |
| Immunotherapy | ||||
| Nivolumab | PD1 | 2 | NCT02829918 | Recruiting |
| Pembrolizumab and GM-CSF | PD1 | 2 | NCT02703714 | Recruiting |
| Ipilimumab and nivolumab | CTLA4 and PD1 | 2 | NCT02923934 | Not yet recruiting |
| Dendritic cell-precision T cells for neoantigen (DC-PNAT) and gemcitabine | Personalised neoantigens | 2 | NCT02632019 | |
| Multiagent | ||||
| Multiple arms based on molecular profiling (cetuximab, trastuzumab, gefitinib, lapatinib, everolimus, sorafenib, crizotinib) | Multiple (EGFR, HER2, mTOR, VEGF/EGFR/PDGFR, ALK/ROS1) | 2 | NCT02836847 | Recruiting |
| Ramucirumab and pembrolizumab | 1 | NCT02443324 | Recruiting |
All cited from ClinicalTrials.gov on 21 November 2016.
5 FU, 5-fluorouracil; ALK, anaplastic lymphoma kinase; BRAF, v-Raf murine sarcoma viral oncogene homologue B; CAP, capecitabine; CIS, cisplatin; C-Raf, RAF proto-oncogene serine/threonine protein kinase; CTLA4, cytotoxic T-lymphocyte associated protein 4; EGFR, epidermal growth factor receptor; FGFR, fibroblast growth factor receptor; FOLFOX, 5-fluorouracil and oxaliplatin; GEM, gemcitabine; GM-CSF, granylocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor; HER2, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2; IDH, isocitrate dehydrogenase; MAPK, mitogen-activated protein kinase; mTOR, mammalian target of rapamycin; OX, oxaliplatin; PDGFR, platelet-derived growth factor receptor; PD1, programmed cell death protein 1; ROS1, c-ros oncogene 1; VEGF, vascular endothelial growth factor; VEGFR, vascular endothelial growth factor receptor.