Ying Jin1, Xun Shi2, Jun Zhao2, Qiong He2, Ming Chen3, Junrong Yan4, Qiuxiang Ou5, Xue Wu5, Yang W Shao5, Xinmin Yu6. 1. Department of Medical Oncology, Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China; Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Radiation Oncology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. 2. Department of Medical Oncology, Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. 3. Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Radiation Oncology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. 4. Medical Department, Nanjing Geneseeq Technology Inc., Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. 5. Translational Medicine Research Centre, Geneseeq Technology Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 6. Department of Medical Oncology, Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China; Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Diagnosis and Treatment Technology of Thoracic Oncology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. Electronic address: yu_xinm@sina.cn.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Increasing evidence leads to a ratiocination that genetic heterogeneity of the lung adenocarcinoma with EGFR mutations may impact clinical responses and outcomes to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) treatments. METHODS: We performed genetic profiling of pre-treatment samples of 69 lung adenocarcinoma patients, including tumor FFPE and cell-free DNA (cfDNA), targeting 416 cancer-related genes using next generation sequencing. We analyzed mutation concordance across sample types and investigated potential mechanisms that confer primary resistance to EGFR-TKIs in patients with short progression-free survival (PFS) versus those with long PFS. RESULTS: We detected a total of 200 actionable genetic alterations (mean: 2.9 variants/patient, range: 1-7 variants) in tumor FFPE and 140 actionable genetic alterations (mean: 2.0 variants/patient, range: 0-5 variants) in matched cfDNA, respectively. All patients had EGFR TKI-sensitizing mutations, including EGFR Ex19del, L858R, G719S/C, and L861Q. Concurrent TP53 mutations were most commonly observed in 72.5% of patients, followed by EGFR amplification (20.3%), RB1 (10.1%), PIK3CA (7.2%), and MYC (5.8%). For EGFR activating mutations, the concordance rate was 88.2% between cfDNA and FFPE samples. Furthermore, we identified genes that potentially confer primary resistance to EGFR-TKIs including CDC73, SMAD4, RB1 and PIK3CA. We also report signaling pathways enriched in patients with TKI primary resistance. CONCLUSIONS: We note the genetic complexity and heterogeneity of EGFR-mutated lung adenocarcinoma and underscore that mutation status is highly concordant between tumor FFPE and cfDNA samples. This study also highlights the alterations that potentially confer primary resistance to EGFR TKI treatments in patients who demonstrated short PFS.
INTRODUCTION: Increasing evidence leads to a ratiocination that genetic heterogeneity of the lung adenocarcinoma with EGFR mutations may impact clinical responses and outcomes to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) treatments. METHODS: We performed genetic profiling of pre-treatment samples of 69 lung adenocarcinomapatients, including tumor FFPE and cell-free DNA (cfDNA), targeting 416 cancer-related genes using next generation sequencing. We analyzed mutation concordance across sample types and investigated potential mechanisms that confer primary resistance to EGFR-TKIs in patients with short progression-free survival (PFS) versus those with long PFS. RESULTS: We detected a total of 200 actionable genetic alterations (mean: 2.9 variants/patient, range: 1-7 variants) in tumor FFPE and 140 actionable genetic alterations (mean: 2.0 variants/patient, range: 0-5 variants) in matched cfDNA, respectively. All patients had EGFR TKI-sensitizing mutations, including EGFR Ex19del, L858R, G719S/C, and L861Q. Concurrent TP53 mutations were most commonly observed in 72.5% of patients, followed by EGFR amplification (20.3%), RB1 (10.1%), PIK3CA (7.2%), and MYC (5.8%). For EGFR activating mutations, the concordance rate was 88.2% between cfDNA and FFPE samples. Furthermore, we identified genes that potentially confer primary resistance to EGFR-TKIs including CDC73, SMAD4, RB1 and PIK3CA. We also report signaling pathways enriched in patients with TKI primary resistance. CONCLUSIONS: We note the genetic complexity and heterogeneity of EGFR-mutated lung adenocarcinoma and underscore that mutation status is highly concordant between tumor FFPE and cfDNA samples. This study also highlights the alterations that potentially confer primary resistance to EGFR TKI treatments in patients who demonstrated short PFS.
Authors: Xiaohong Han; Rongrong Luo; Lin Wang; Lei Zhang; Tao Wang; Yan Zhao; Shanshan Xiao; Nan Qiao; Chi Xu; Lieming Ding; Zhishang Zhang; Yuankai Shi Journal: Am J Cancer Res Date: 2020-12-01 Impact factor: 6.166
Authors: Stepan M Esagian; Georgia Ι Grigoriadou; Ilias P Nikas; Vasileios Boikou; Peter M Sadow; Jae-Kyung Won; Konstantinos P Economopoulos Journal: J Cancer Res Clin Oncol Date: 2020-05-27 Impact factor: 4.553