Benjamin Goeppert1, Trine Folseraas2,3,4,5,6, Stephanie Roessler1, Peter Schirmacher1, Tom H Karlsen2,3,4,5,6, Matthias Kloor7, Anna-Lena Volckmar1, Volker Endris1, Ivo Buchhalter1,8, Albrecht Stenzinger1, Krzysztof Grzyb9, Marit M Grimsrud2,3,4, Barbara Gornicka10, Erik von Seth11, Gary M Reynolds12, Andre Franke13, Daniel N Gotthardt14, Arianeb Mehrabi15, Angela Cheung16, Joanne Verheij17, Johanna Arola18, Heikki Mäkisalo19, Tor J Eide9, Sören Weidemann20, John C Cheville21, Giuseppe Mazza22, Gideon M Hirschfield12,23, Cyriel Y Ponsioen24, Annika Bergquist11, Piotr Milkiewicz25,26, Konstantinos N Lazaridis16, Christoph Schramm27,28, Michael P Manns29, Martti Färkkilä30, Arndt Vogel29, Kirsten M Boberg2,3,4,5,6. 1. Department of General Pathology, Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. 2. Norwegian PSC Research Center Department of Transplantation Medicine, Division of Surgery, Inflammatory Medicine and Transplantation, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway. 3. Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. 4. Research Institute of Internal Medicine, Division of Surgery, Inflammatory Medicine and Transplantation, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway. 5. K.G. Jebsen Inflammation Research Center, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. 6. Section for Gastroenterology, Department of Transplantation Medicine, Division of Surgery, Inflammatory Medicine and Transplantation, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway. 7. Department of Applied Tumor Biology, Institute of Pathology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. 8. Institute of Pathology, Omics IT and Data Management Core Facility, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. 9. Department of Pathology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway. 10. Department of Pathology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. 11. Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. 12. Center for Liver Research, NIHR Birmingham Liver Biomedical Research Unit, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom. 13. Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany. 14. Department of Internal Medicine IV, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. 15. Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. 16. Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. 17. Department of Pathology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 18. Department of Pathology, Haartman Institute and Huslab, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland. 19. Department of Transplantation and Liver Surgery, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland. 20. Institute of Pathology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. 21. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. 22. Division of Medicine, Institute for Liver and Digestive Health Royal Free Hospital, University College London, London, United Kingdom. 23. University Hospital Birmingham, NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom. 24. Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 25. Liver and Internal Medicine Unit, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. 26. Translational Medicine Group, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland. 27. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. 28. Martin Zeitz Center for Rare Diseases, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. 29. Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany. 30. Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Lifetime risk of biliary tract cancer (BTC) in primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) may exceed 20%, and BTC is currently the leading cause of death in patients with PSC. To open new avenues for management, we aimed to delineate clinically relevant genomic and pathological features of a large panel of PSC-associated BTC (PSC-BTC). APPROACH AND RESULTS: We analyzed formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tumor tissue from 186 patients with PSC-BTC from 11 centers in eight countries with all anatomical locations included. We performed tumor DNA sequencing at 42 clinically relevant genetic loci to detect mutations, translocations, and copy number variations, along with histomorphological and immunohistochemical characterization. Regardless of the anatomical localization, PSC-BTC exhibited a uniform molecular and histological characteristic similar to extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. We detected a high frequency of genomic alterations typical of extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, such as TP53 (35.5%), KRAS (28.0%), CDKN2A (14.5%), and SMAD4 (11.3%), as well as potentially druggable mutations (e.g., HER2/ERBB2). We found a high frequency of nontypical/nonductal histomorphological subtypes (55.2%) and of the usually rare BTC precursor lesion, intraductal papillary neoplasia (18.3%). CONCLUSIONS: Genomic alterations in PSC-BTC include a significant number of putative actionable therapeutic targets. Notably, PSC-BTC shows a distinct extrahepatic morpho-molecular phenotype, independent of the anatomical location of the tumor. These findings advance our understanding of PSC-associated cholangiocarcinogenesis and provide strong incentives for clinical trials to test genome-based personalized treatment strategies in PSC-BTC.
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Lifetime risk of biliary tract cancer (BTC) in primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) may exceed 20%, and BTC is currently the leading cause of death in patients with PSC. To open new avenues for management, we aimed to delineate clinically relevant genomic and pathological features of a large panel of PSC-associated BTC (PSC-BTC). APPROACH AND RESULTS: We analyzed formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tumor tissue from 186 patients with PSC-BTC from 11 centers in eight countries with all anatomical locations included. We performed tumor DNA sequencing at 42 clinically relevant genetic loci to detect mutations, translocations, and copy number variations, along with histomorphological and immunohistochemical characterization. Regardless of the anatomical localization, PSC-BTC exhibited a uniform molecular and histological characteristic similar to extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. We detected a high frequency of genomic alterations typical of extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, such as TP53 (35.5%), KRAS (28.0%), CDKN2A (14.5%), and SMAD4 (11.3%), as well as potentially druggable mutations (e.g., HER2/ERBB2). We found a high frequency of nontypical/nonductal histomorphological subtypes (55.2%) and of the usually rare BTC precursor lesion, intraductal papillary neoplasia (18.3%). CONCLUSIONS: Genomic alterations in PSC-BTC include a significant number of putative actionable therapeutic targets. Notably, PSC-BTC shows a distinct extrahepatic morpho-molecular phenotype, independent of the anatomical location of the tumor. These findings advance our understanding of PSC-associated cholangiocarcinogenesis and provide strong incentives for clinical trials to test genome-based personalized treatment strategies in PSC-BTC.
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