Erica H Bell1, Peixin Zhang2, Barbara J Fisher3, David R Macdonald4, Joseph P McElroy5, Glenn J Lesser6, Jessica Fleming1, Arup R Chakraborty1, Ziyan Liu1, Aline P Becker1, Denise Fabian1, Kenneth D Aldape7, Lynn S Ashby8, Maria Werner-Wasik9, Eleanor M Walker10, Jean-Paul Bahary11, Young Kwok12, H Michael Yu13, Nadia N Laack14, Christopher J Schultz15, Heidi J Gray16, H Ian Robins17, Minesh P Mehta18, Arnab Chakravarti1. 1. Department of Radiation Oncology, The Ohio State University, Columbus. 2. Statistics and Data Management Center, NRG Oncology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 3. Department of Radiation Oncology, London Regional Cancer Program, London, Ontario, Canada. 4. Department of Oncology, London Regional Cancer Program, London, Ontario, Canada. 5. Center for Biostatistics, Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus. 6. Department of Hematology and Oncology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. 7. Department of Pathology, Toronto General Hospital/Princess Margaret, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 8. Department of Neurology, St Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center-Accruals Arizona Oncology Services Foundation, Phoenix. 9. Department of Radiation Oncology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 10. Department of Radiation Oncology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan. 11. Department of Radiation Oncology, Centre Hospitalier de L`Université de Montréal-Notre Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 12. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland Medical Systems, Baltimore. 13. Department of Radiation Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, Florida. 14. Department of Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. 15. Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. 16. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington Medical Center-Accruals University of California San Francisco, Seattle. 17. Departments of Medicine, Human Oncology and Neurology, University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison. 18. Department of Radiation Oncology, Baptist Hospital of Miami, Miami, Florida.
Abstract
Importance: The initial report of NRG Oncology/Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) 0424 demonstrated a 3-year overall survival benefit with the addition of temozolomide to radiotherapy compared with a historical control. However, an important end point of the trial-evaluation of the association between O6-methylgaunine-DNA-methyltransferase (MGMT) promoter methylation and survival outcomes-was not previously reported. Objective: To examine the proportion of patients in NRG Oncology/RTOG 0424 with MGMT promoter methylation and its association with survival outcomes. Design, Setting, and Participants: Specimens collected were analyzed after trial completion to determine MGMT promoter methylation and IDH1/2 status and the association between MGMT status and survival outcomes. A model derived from logistic regression (MGMT-STP27) was used to calculate MGMT promoter methylation status. Univariate and multivariable analyses were performed using the Cox proportional hazards regression model to determine the association of MGMT status with survival outcomes. Patient pretreatment characteristics were included as covariates in multivariable analyses. Main Outcomes and Measures: Progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS). Results: Of all 129 eligible patients in NRG Oncology/RTOG 0424, 75 (58.1%) had MGMT status available (median age, 48 years; age range, 20-76 years; 42 [56.0%] male): 57 (76.0%) methylated and 18 (24.0%) unmethylated. A total of 13 unmethylated patients (72.2%) had astrocytoma as opposed to oligoastrocytoma or oligodendroglioma, whereas 23 methylated patients (40.4%) had astrocytoma. On univariate analyses, an unmethylated MGMT promoter was significantly associated with worse OS (hazard ratio [HR], 3.52; 95% CI, 1.64-7.56; P < .001) and PFS (HR, 3.06; 95% CI, 1.55-6.04; P < .001). The statistical significances were maintained in multimarker multivariable analyses, including IDH1/2 status for both OS (HR, 2.70; 95% CI, 1.02-7.14; P = .045) and PFS (HR, 2.74; 95% CI, 1.19-6.33; P = .02). Conclusions and Relevance: In this study, MGMT promoter methylation was an independent prognostic biomarker of high-risk, low-grade glioma treated with temozolomide and radiotherapy. This is the first study, to our knowledge, to validate the prognostic importance of MGMT promoter methylation in patients with grade II glioma treated with combined radiotherapy and temozolomide and highlights its potential prognostic value beyond IDH1/2 mutation status. Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00114140.
Importance: The initial report of NRG Oncology/Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) 0424 demonstrated a 3-year overall survival benefit with the addition of temozolomide to radiotherapy compared with a historical control. However, an important end point of the trial-evaluation of the association between O6-methylgaunine-DNA-methyltransferase (MGMT) promoter methylation and survival outcomes-was not previously reported. Objective: To examine the proportion of patients in NRG Oncology/RTOG 0424 with MGMT promoter methylation and its association with survival outcomes. Design, Setting, and Participants: Specimens collected were analyzed after trial completion to determine MGMT promoter methylation and IDH1/2 status and the association between MGMT status and survival outcomes. A model derived from logistic regression (MGMT-STP27) was used to calculate MGMT promoter methylation status. Univariate and multivariable analyses were performed using the Cox proportional hazards regression model to determine the association of MGMT status with survival outcomes. Patient pretreatment characteristics were included as covariates in multivariable analyses. Main Outcomes and Measures: Progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS). Results: Of all 129 eligible patients in NRG Oncology/RTOG 0424, 75 (58.1%) had MGMT status available (median age, 48 years; age range, 20-76 years; 42 [56.0%] male): 57 (76.0%) methylated and 18 (24.0%) unmethylated. A total of 13 unmethylated patients (72.2%) had astrocytoma as opposed to oligoastrocytoma or oligodendroglioma, whereas 23 methylated patients (40.4%) had astrocytoma. On univariate analyses, an unmethylated MGMT promoter was significantly associated with worse OS (hazard ratio [HR], 3.52; 95% CI, 1.64-7.56; P < .001) and PFS (HR, 3.06; 95% CI, 1.55-6.04; P < .001). The statistical significances were maintained in multimarker multivariable analyses, including IDH1/2 status for both OS (HR, 2.70; 95% CI, 1.02-7.14; P = .045) and PFS (HR, 2.74; 95% CI, 1.19-6.33; P = .02). Conclusions and Relevance: In this study, MGMT promoter methylation was an independent prognostic biomarker of high-risk, low-grade glioma treated with temozolomide and radiotherapy. This is the first study, to our knowledge, to validate the prognostic importance of MGMT promoter methylation in patients with grade II glioma treated with combined radiotherapy and temozolomide and highlights its potential prognostic value beyond IDH1/2 mutation status. Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00114140.
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