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Moore JA, Chen KT, Madison R, Newberg JY, Fleischmann Z, Wang S, Sharaf R, Murugesan K, Fendler BJ, Hughes J, Schrock AB, Hegde PS, Oxnard GR, Fabrizio D, Frampton GM, Antonarakis ES, Sokol ES, Jin DX. Pan-Cancer Analysis of Copy-Number Features Identifies Recurrent Signatures and a Homologous Recombination Deficiency Biomarker to Predict Poly (ADP-Ribose) Polymerase Inhibitor Response. JCO Precis Oncol 2023; 7:e2300093. [PMID: 37769224 DOI: 10.1200/po.23.00093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2023] [Revised: 06/21/2023] [Accepted: 07/21/2023] [Indexed: 09/30/2023] Open
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PURPOSE Copy-number (CN) features reveal the molecular state of cancers and may have predictive and prognostic value in the treatment of cancer. We sought to apply published CN analysis methods to a large pan-cancer data set and characterize ubiquitous CN signatures across tumor types, including potential utility for treatment selection. METHODS We analyzed the landscape of CN features in 260,333 pan-cancer samples. We examined the association of 10 signatures with genomic alterations and clinical characteristics and trained a machine learning classifier using CN and insertion and deletion features to detect homologous recombination deficiency signature (HRDsig) positivity. Clinical outcomes were assessed using a real-world clinicogenomic database (CGDB) of comprehensive genomic profiling linked to deidentified, electronic health record-derived clinical data. RESULTS CN signatures were prevalent across cancer types and associated with diverse processes including focal tandem duplications, seismic amplifications, genome-wide loss of heterozygosity (gLOH), and HRD. Our novel HRDsig outperformed gLOH in predicting BRCAness and effectively distinguished biallelic BRCA and homologous recombination-repair wild-type (HRRwt) samples pan-tumor, demonstrating high sensitivity to detect biallelic BRCA in ovarian (93%) and other HRD-associated cancers (80%-87%). Pan-tumor prevalence of HRDsig was 6.4%. HRRwt cases represented a significant fraction of the HRDsig-positive cohort, likely reflecting a population with nongenomic mechanisms of HRD. In ovarian and prostate CGDBs, HRDsig identified more patients than gLOH and had predictive value for poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitor (PARPi) benefit. CONCLUSION Tumor CN profiles are informative, revealing diverse processes active in cancer. We describe the landscape of 10 CN signatures in a large pan-cancer cohort, including two associated with HRD. We trained a machine learning-based HRDsig that robustly identified BRCAness and associated with biallelic BRCA pan-tumor, and was predictive of PARPi benefit in real-world ovarian and prostate data sets.
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Powles T, Young A, Nimeiri H, Madison RW, Fine A, Zollinger DR, Huang Y, Xu C, Gjoerup OV, Aushev VN, Wu HT, Aleshin A, Carter C, Davarpanah N, Degaonkar V, Gupta P, Mariathasan S, Schleifman E, Assaf ZJ, Oxnard G, Hegde PS. Molecular residual disease detection in resected, muscle-invasive urothelial cancer with a tissue-based comprehensive genomic profiling-informed personalized monitoring assay. Front Oncol 2023; 13:1221718. [PMID: 37601688 PMCID: PMC10433150 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1221718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2023] [Accepted: 07/11/2023] [Indexed: 08/22/2023] Open
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Introduction Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) detection postoperatively may identify patients with urothelial cancer at a high risk of relapse. Pragmatic tools building off clinical tumor next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms could have the potential to increase assay accessibility. Methods We evaluated the widely available Foundation Medicine comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) platform as a source of variants for tracking of ctDNA when analyzing residual samples from IMvigor010 (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT02450331), a randomized adjuvant study comparing atezolizumab with observation after bladder cancer surgery. Current methods often involve germline sampling, which is not always feasible or practical. Rather than performing white blood cell sequencing to filter germline and clonal hematopoiesis (CH) variants, we applied a bioinformatic approach to select tumor (non-germline/CH) variants for molecular residual disease detection. Tissue-informed personalized multiplex polymerase chain reaction-NGS assay was used to detect ctDNA postsurgically (Natera). Results Across 396 analyzed patients, prevalence of potentially actionable alterations was comparable with the expected prevalence in advanced disease (13% FGFR2/3, 20% PIK3CA, 13% ERBB2, and 37% with elevated tumor mutational burden ≥10 mutations/megabase). In the observation arm, 66 of the 184 (36%) ctDNA-positive patients had shorter disease-free survival [DFS; hazard ratio (HR) = 5.77; 95% confidence interval (CI), 3.84-8.67; P < 0.0001] and overall survival (OS; HR = 5.81; 95% CI, 3.41-9.91; P < 0.0001) compared with ctDNA-negative patients. ctDNA-positive patients had improved DFS and OS with atezolizumab compared with those in observation (DFS HR = 0.56; 95% CI, 0.38-0.83; P = 0.003; OS HR = 0.66; 95% CI, 0.42-1.05). Clinical sensitivity and specificity for detection of postsurgical recurrence were 58% (60/103) and 93% (75/81), respectively. Conclusion We present a personalized ctDNA monitoring assay utilizing tissue-based FoundationOne® CDx CGP, which is a pragmatic and potentially clinically scalable method that can detect low levels of residual ctDNA in patients with resected, muscle-invasive bladder cancer without germline sampling.
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- Thomas Powles
- Barts Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London ECMC, Barts Health, London, United Kingdom
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- Foundation Medicine, Cambridge, MA, United States
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- Foundation Medicine, Cambridge, MA, United States
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- Foundation Medicine, Cambridge, MA, United States
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- Roche/Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, United States
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Sivakumar S, Moore JA, Montesion M, Sharaf R, Lin DI, Colón CI, Fleishmann Z, Ebot EM, Newberg JY, Mills JM, Hegde PS, Pan Q, Dowlati A, Frampton GM, Sage J, Lovly CM. Integrative Analysis of a Large Real-World Cohort of Small Cell Lung Cancer Identifies Distinct Genetic Subtypes and Insights into Histologic Transformation. Cancer Discov 2023; 13:1572-1591. [PMID: 37062002 PMCID: PMC10326603 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-22-0620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2022] [Revised: 03/08/2023] [Accepted: 04/06/2023] [Indexed: 04/17/2023]
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Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a recalcitrant neuroendocrine carcinoma with dismal survival outcomes. A major barrier in the field has been the relative paucity of human tumors studied. Here we provide an integrated analysis of 3,600 "real-world" SCLC cases. This large cohort allowed us to identify new recurrent alterations and genetic subtypes, including STK11-mutant tumors (1.7%) and TP53/RB1 wild-type tumors (5.5%), as well as rare cases that were human papillomavirus-positive. In our cohort, gene amplifications on 4q12 are associated with increased overall survival, whereas CCNE1 amplification is associated with decreased overall survival. We also identify more frequent alterations in the PTEN pathway in brain metastases. Finally, profiling cases of SCLC containing oncogenic drivers typically associated with NSCLC demonstrates that SCLC transformation may occur across multiple distinct molecular cohorts of NSCLC. These novel and unsuspected genetic features of SCLC may help personalize treatment approaches for this fatal form of cancer. SIGNIFICANCE Minimal changes in therapy and survival outcomes have occurred in SCLC for the past four decades. The identification of new genetic subtypes and novel recurrent mutations as well as an improved understanding of the mechanisms of transformation to SCLC from NSCLC may guide the development of personalized therapies for subsets of patients with SCLC. This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 1501.
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- Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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- University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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- Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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Sivakumar S, Moore JA, Montesion M, Lin DI, Fleischmann Z, Ebot EM, Newberg J, Mills JM, Hegde PS, Frampton GM, Sage J, Lovly CM. Abstract 931: Comprehensive analysis of 3,600 small cell lung cancer cases reveals rare genetic subtypes and multiple mechanisms of histological transformation. Cancer Res 2023. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2023-931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/07/2023]
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Background: Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an aggressive neuroendocrine carcinoma with limited treatment options and extremely poor survival outcomes. A major barrier in the field has been the relative paucity of human tumors studied and lack of access to longitudinal samples to understand tumor evolution.
Methods: Here we provide a comprehensive analysis of 3,600 patients with SCLC who underwent targeted genomic profiling of at least 324 cancer-related genes as part of routine clinical care, including 678 cases with additional clinical and treatment information obtained from a US-based de-identified SCLC clinico-genomic database that originated from approximately 280 US cancer clinics. This large cohort allowed us to examine for new genetic subtypes, ancestry-associated genomic alterations, biopsy site-specific patterns, survival trends and histological transformation of SCLC from non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Results: Consistent with prior studies, SCLCs were predominantly TP53/RB1 altered. Yet, 5.5% of the cases in our cohort were TP53/RB1 wild-type tumors. These tumors often lacked a tobacco mutational signature, exhibited alternate mechanisms of p53/Rb pathway inactivation (e.g., CDKN2A, CCND1, MDM2), and had a high fraction of human papillomavirus-positive cases (12.7%). Another rare subtype of SCLCs included STK11-altered tumors (1.7%), which were observed more frequently in patients of African ancestry, and were associated with a decreased overall survival (OS) compared with the STK11 wild-type cohort. In our cohort, gene amplifications on 4q12 (KDR, KIT, PDGFRA) were associated with increased OS while CCNE1 amplification was associated with decreased OS. Interestingly, alterations in PTEN were more common in brain metastases compared to lung biopsies and liver metastases, suggesting its potentially unique role in brain metastases of SCLCs. Profiling of over 100 putative transformed SCLCs demonstrated that lineage plasticity may occur at variable lengths of time from the original NSCLC diagnosis and include multiple distinct molecular cohorts of NSCLC, beyond EGFR-mutant NSCLC (e.g., kinase fusion+ tumors: RET, ALK, ROS1, NTRK1).
Conclusion: Our work underscores the existence of genetic subtypes in SCLC, including rare subtypes with potential clinical utility. Findings from this study provide an improved understanding of genetic subtypes in SCLC and better inform mechanisms of transformation to SCLC from NSCLC, that may further guide the development of personalized therapies for subsets of patients with this fatal tumor.
Citation Format: Smruthy Sivakumar, Jay A. Moore, Meagan Montesion, Douglas I. Lin, Zoe Fleischmann, Ericka M. Ebot, Justin Newberg, Jennifer M. Mills, Priti S. Hegde, Garrett M. Frampton, Julien Sage, Christine M. Lovly. Comprehensive analysis of 3,600 small cell lung cancer cases reveals rare genetic subtypes and multiple mechanisms of histological transformation [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2023; Part 1 (Regular and Invited Abstracts); 2023 Apr 14-19; Orlando, FL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2023;83(7_Suppl):Abstract nr 931.
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Huseni MA, Wang L, Klementowicz JE, Yuen K, Breart B, Orr C, Liu LF, Li Y, Gupta V, Li C, Rishipathak D, Peng J, Şenbabaoǧlu Y, Modrusan Z, Keerthivasan S, Madireddi S, Chen YJ, Fraser EJ, Leng N, Hamidi H, Koeppen H, Ziai J, Hashimoto K, Fassò M, Williams P, McDermott DF, Rosenberg JE, Powles T, Emens LA, Hegde PS, Mellman I, Turley SJ, Wilson MS, Mariathasan S, Molinero L, Merchant M, West NR. CD8 + T cell-intrinsic IL-6 signaling promotes resistance to anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy. Cell Rep Med 2023; 4:100878. [PMID: 36599350 PMCID: PMC9873827 DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2022] [Revised: 10/14/2022] [Accepted: 12/08/2022] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Although immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are established as effective cancer therapies, overcoming therapeutic resistance remains a critical challenge. Here we identify interleukin 6 (IL-6) as a correlate of poor response to atezolizumab (anti-PD-L1) in large clinical trials of advanced kidney, breast, and bladder cancers. In pre-clinical models, combined blockade of PD-L1 and the IL-6 receptor (IL6R) causes synergistic regression of large established tumors and substantially improves anti-tumor CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses compared with anti-PD-L1 alone. Circulating CTLs from cancer patients with high plasma IL-6 display a repressed functional profile based on single-cell RNA sequencing, and IL-6-STAT3 signaling inhibits classical cytotoxic differentiation of CTLs in vitro. In tumor-bearing mice, CTL-specific IL6R deficiency is sufficient to improve anti-PD-L1 activity. Thus, based on both clinical and experimental evidence, agents targeting IL-6 signaling are plausible partners for combination with ICIs in cancer patients.
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- Genentech, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Genentech, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Genentech, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Genentech, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Genentech, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Genentech, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Genentech, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Genentech, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Genitourinary Oncology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Barts Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK
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- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Genentech, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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Lee JK, Sivakumar S, Schrock AB, Madison R, Fabrizio D, Gjoerup O, Ross JS, Frampton GM, Napalkov P, Montesion M, Schutzman JL, Ye X, Hegde PS, Nagasaka M, Oxnard GR, Sokol ES, Ou SHI, Shi Z. Comprehensive pan-cancer genomic landscape of KRAS altered cancers and real-world outcomes in solid tumors. NPJ Precis Oncol 2022; 6:91. [PMID: 36494601 PMCID: PMC9734185 DOI: 10.1038/s41698-022-00334-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2022] [Accepted: 11/16/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Recent clinical development of KRAS inhibitors has heightened interest in the genomic landscape of KRAS-altered cancers. We performed a pan-cancer analysis of KRAS-altered samples from 426,706 adult patients with solid or hematologic malignancies using comprehensive genomic profiling; additional analyses included 62,369 liquid biopsy and 7241 pediatric samples. 23% of adult pan-cancer samples had KRAS alterations; 88% were mutations, most commonly G12D/G12V/G12C/G13D/G12R, and prevalence was similar in liquid biopsies. Co-alteration landscapes were largely similar across KRAS mutations but distinct from KRAS wild-type, though differences were observed in some tumor types for tumor mutational burden, PD-L1 expression, microsatellite instability, and other mutational signatures. Prognosis of KRAS-mutant versus other genomic cohorts of lung, pancreatic, and colorectal cancer were assessed using a real-world clinicogenomic database. As specific KRAS inhibitors and combination therapeutic strategies are being developed, genomic profiling to understand co-alterations and other biomarkers that may modulate response to targeted or immunotherapies will be imperative.
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- Jessica K. Lee
- grid.418158.10000 0004 0534 4718Foundation Medicine Inc., Cambridge, MA USA
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- grid.418158.10000 0004 0534 4718Foundation Medicine Inc., Cambridge, MA USA
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- grid.418158.10000 0004 0534 4718Foundation Medicine Inc., Cambridge, MA USA
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- grid.418158.10000 0004 0534 4718Foundation Medicine Inc., Cambridge, MA USA
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- grid.418158.10000 0004 0534 4718Foundation Medicine Inc., Cambridge, MA USA
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- grid.418158.10000 0004 0534 4718Foundation Medicine Inc., Cambridge, MA USA
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- grid.418158.10000 0004 0534 4718Foundation Medicine Inc., Cambridge, MA USA ,grid.411023.50000 0000 9159 4457Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY USA
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- grid.418158.10000 0004 0534 4718Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA USA
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- grid.418158.10000 0004 0534 4718Foundation Medicine Inc., Cambridge, MA USA
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- grid.418158.10000 0004 0534 4718Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA USA
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- grid.418158.10000 0004 0534 4718Foundation Medicine Inc., Cambridge, MA USA
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- grid.516069.d0000 0004 0543 3315Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Orange, CA USA
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- grid.418158.10000 0004 0534 4718Foundation Medicine Inc., Cambridge, MA USA
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- grid.418158.10000 0004 0534 4718Foundation Medicine Inc., Cambridge, MA USA
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- grid.516069.d0000 0004 0543 3315Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Orange, CA USA
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- grid.418158.10000 0004 0534 4718Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA USA
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Snyder A, De Alwis D, Goonewardene A, Hegde PS. Balancing speed, science and regulatory requirements in oncology drug development. Nat Med 2022; 28:2234-2235. [PMID: 36114281 DOI: 10.1038/s41591-022-01975-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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- Early Oncology Development, Merck and Co., Kenilworth, NJ, USA
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Murugesan K, Jin DX, Comment LA, Fabrizio D, Hegde PS, Elvin JA, Alexander B, Levy MA, Frampton GM, Montesion M, Roychowdhury S, Kurzrock R, Ross JS, Albacker LA, Huang RSP. OUP accepted manuscript. Oncologist 2022; 27:732-739. [PMID: 35598202 PMCID: PMC9438920 DOI: 10.1093/oncolo/oyac096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2022] [Accepted: 03/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Background We sought to characterize response to immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) in non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) across various CD274 copy number gain and loss thresholds and identify an optimal cutoff. Materials and Methods A de-identified nationwide (US) real-world clinico-genomic database was leveraged to study 621 non-squamous NSCLC patients treated with ICI. All patients received second-line ICI monotherapy and underwent comprehensive genomic profiling as part of routine clinical care. Overall survival (OS) from start of ICI, for CD274 copy number gain and loss cohorts across varying copy number thresholds, were assessed. Results Among the 621 patients, patients with a CD274 CN greater than or equal to specimen ploidy +2 (N = 29) had a significantly higher median (m) OS when compared with the rest of the cohort (N = 592; 16.1 [8.9-37.3] vs 8.6 [7.1-10.9] months, hazard ratio (HR) = 0.6 [0.4-1.0], P-value = .05). Patients with a CD274 copy number less than specimen ploidy (N = 299) trended toward a lower mOS when compared to the rest of the cohort (N = 322; 7.5 [5.9-11.3] vs 9.6 [7.9-12.8] months, HR = 0.9 [0.7-1.1], P-value = .3). Conclusion This work shows that CD274 copy number gains at varying thresholds predict different response to ICI blockade in non-squamous NSCLC. Considering these data, prospective clinical trials should further validate these findings, specifically in the context of PD-L1 IHC test results.
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- Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
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- James Cancer Hospital, Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Pathology, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA
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- Corresponding author: Richard S.P. Huang, MD, Foundation Medicine, 7010 Kit Creek Road, Morrisville, NC 27560, USA. Tel: +1 919 748 5944;
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Sivakumar S, Sokol ES, Frampton GM, Fabrizio D, Alexander B, Hegde PS, Grothey A. Abstract 472: Tumor mutational burden reveals tumor-specific patterns with intra-patient stability from multiple longitudinal tissue biopsies from 3,402 patients. Cancer Res 2021. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2021-472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Tumor mutational burden (TMB) continues to evolve as a predictive biomarker of immunotherapy response. The recent pan-tumor approval of pembrolizumab for solid tumors with high TMB (TMB-H), defined as ≥10 mutations/megabase (mut/Mb), offers a promising treatment option, especially in advanced tumors. Here, we sought to investigate genomic profiles in cancer patients with multiple longitudinal tissue biopsies to assess the prevalence and variability of TMB, and its relationship with other biomarkers.
We utilized pan-tumor comprehensive genomic profiling data from 246,806 patients, tested as part of routine clinical care (FoundationOne). High prevalence (>30%) of TMB-H was observed in skin, lung and bladder tumors. In contrast, gastrointestinal (GI) tumors exhibited low prevalence of TMB-H (8.8%), with frequent co-occurrence of TMB-H with high microsatellite instability (TMB-H/MSI). Exclusive TMB-H represented only 4% of GI cases, with a median TMB of 12.2 mut/Mb, compared to a much higher median of 43.5 mut/Mb in the TMB-H/MSI subgroup. Uterus/endometrial tumors also displayed co-occurring TMB-H/MSI, however, unlike GI, exclusive TMB-H cases had a higher median of 16.3 mut/Mb.
3,402 patients with multiple longitudinal tissue biopsies across 38 tumor types were identified (median collection time difference, days (d): 472). Overall, largely stable patterns of TMB and MSI were observed. Only 234 cases (7%) showed a change in TMB status, of which 73% had a diagnostic status change from TMB-low to TMB-H. There was no significant correlation between change in TMB and time between tests. However, gliomas were a notable outlier with significant changes in TMB status. Breast, colorectal and ovarian tumors also showed evidence for a statistically significant TMB change (P < 0.05), primarily in larger time points (>3years). MSI tumors and cases with a DNA mismatch repair mutation signature (MMR+) showed a higher TMB change than MS-stable/MMR- tumors respectively, albeit limited by cohort size. 4.6% of MS-stable tumors shifted from TMB-low to TMB-H (median time difference: 658d), with a median TMB change of 7.5 mut/Mb. Of note, genomic loss of heterozygosity (gLOH)-high ovarian tumors showed a higher TMB change than gLOH-low tumors (P < 0.05). These observed TMB changes, although rare, may, in part, result from intervening therapies or evolving mutational processes in these cases.
TMB is a continuous variable biomarker. Identifying a cutoff for clinical and analytical validation can be a challenge, particularly given the impact of underlying tumor heterogeneity on the diagnostic score. Our data suggest that TMB at the cutoff of 10 mut/Mb is stable across tumor types and potentially across treatment modalities. These results also shed light on the co-occurrence of TMB and MSI, particularly in GI tumors, which may further inform treatment decisions for patients.
Citation Format: Smruthy Sivakumar, Ethan S. Sokol, Garrett M. Frampton, David Fabrizio, Brian Alexander, Priti S. Hegde, Axel Grothey. Tumor mutational burden reveals tumor-specific patterns with intra-patient stability from multiple longitudinal tissue biopsies from 3,402 patients [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2021; 2021 Apr 10-15 and May 17-21. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2021;81(13_Suppl):Abstract nr 472.
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Sivakumar S, Sokol ES, Frampton GM, Hegde PS, Fabrizio D. Abstract 2233: Landscape of driver mutations in MAPK/PI3K/AKT signaling pathways reveals insights into therapeutic targeting strategies. Cancer Res 2021. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2021-2233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Abstract
Alterations in the signaling cascade of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) and phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K) pathways are common mechanisms of cancer initiation and progression. RAS proteins (KRAS/HRAS/NRAS), a crucial component of this cascade, are often found to be activated in cancer cells. Recent advancements in RAS targeting offer new treatment strategies for patients, however studies suggest that the clinical responses may be tissue-dependent. Thus, understanding the landscape of RAS alterations and the concomitant mutations observed in their effector pathways may be crucial in developing appropriate disease-specific therapeutic strategies for effectively addressing this biology.
In this study, we utilized comprehensive genomic profiling data from 282,792 cancer patients across 77 tumor types, tested in the course of routine clinical care (FoundationOne) to assess the landscape of gene alterations within this signaling cascade. RAS alterations were identified in 27% of the cohort. Mutations in PI3K and PTEN were also frequent (>10%); alterations in FGFR1-4, EGFR, RAF (ARAF/BRAF/RAF1) and ERBB2 were each identified in over 5% of samples. A closer inspection of non-small cell lung carcinomas (NSCLC, n=55,893), colorectal carcinomas (CRC, n=35,104) and pancreatic cancers (PC, n=17,447), revealed distinct mutational spectrums. RAS alterations, particularly KRAS, exhibited varying prevalence: PC (85%), CRC (54%) and NSCLC (32%). In NSCLC, 35% of the KRAS alterations were identified to be G12C. In contrast, the predominant KRAS alterations in CRC and PC were G12D (29% CRC, 41% PC) and G12V (20% CRC, 30% PC). Further, only CRCs exhibited a high rate of KRAS G13D (16% of all KRAS alterations); KRAS G12R was found exclusively to PC (15%) and KRAS amplifications were most frequently identified in NSCLC (11%). Distinct patterns were also observed in genes upstream and downstream of the RAS proteins. Alterations in ALK, EGFR, STK11 and MET were significantly more prevalent in NSCLC (P < 10−5); whereas gene alterations in PI3K, RAF, MTOR and ERBB2 were more frequently identified in CRC (P < 10−5). In contrast, PC showed a predominant presence of RAS mutations, with limited mutations in other genes of the signaling cascade. Of note, PI3K alterations were identified at a much lower prevalence in PC (4%) compared to NSCLC (11%) and CRC (19%).
Our findings suggest a tissue-dependent spectrum of driver mutations exist across the MAPK/PI3K/AKT signaling pathways. The observed mutational profiles may explain some of the efficacy differences observed by targeting RAS across these diseases and have implications on acquired resistance mechanisms in a tissue-specific manner. Additional insights may be gleaned by investigating immunotherapy related biomarkers with these alterations to suggest combination strategies for effectively targeting the RAS signaling cascade.
Citation Format: Smruthy Sivakumar, Ethan S. Sokol, Garrett M. Frampton, Priti S. Hegde, David Fabrizio. Landscape of driver mutations in MAPK/PI3K/AKT signaling pathways reveals insights into therapeutic targeting strategies [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2021; 2021 Apr 10-15 and May 17-21. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2021;81(13_Suppl):Abstract nr 2233.
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Mayoux M, Roller A, Pulko V, Sammicheli S, Chen S, Sum E, Jost C, Fransen MF, Buser RB, Kowanetz M, Rommel K, Matos I, Colombetti S, Belousov A, Karanikas V, Ossendorp F, Hegde PS, Chen DS, Umana P, Perro M, Klein C, Xu W. Dendritic cells dictate responses to PD-L1 blockade cancer immunotherapy. Sci Transl Med 2021; 12:12/534/eaav7431. [PMID: 32161104 DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aav7431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 217] [Impact Index Per Article: 72.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2018] [Revised: 07/18/2019] [Accepted: 02/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
PD-L1/PD-1 blocking antibodies have demonstrated therapeutic efficacy across a range of human cancers. Extending this benefit to a greater number of patients, however, will require a better understanding of how these therapies instigate anticancer immunity. Although the PD-L1/PD-1 axis is typically associated with T cell function, we demonstrate here that dendritic cells (DCs) are an important target of PD-L1 blocking antibody. PD-L1 binds two receptors, PD-1 and B7.1 (CD80). PD-L1 is expressed much more abundantly than B7.1 on peripheral and tumor-associated DCs in patients with cancer. Blocking PD-L1 on DCs relieves B7.1 sequestration in cis by PD-L1, which allows the B7.1/CD28 interaction to enhance T cell priming. In line with this, in patients with renal cell carcinoma or non-small cell lung cancer treated with atezolizumab (PD-L1 blockade), a DC gene signature is strongly associated with improved overall survival. These data suggest that PD-L1 blockade reinvigorates DC function to generate potent anticancer T cell immunity.
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- Maud Mayoux
- Cancer Immunotherapy Discovery, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Zurich, Schlieren 8952, Switzerland
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biomarkers, Bioinformatics and Omics & Pathology, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Basel, Basel 4070, Switzerland
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- Cancer Immunotherapy Discovery, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Zurich, Schlieren 8952, Switzerland
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- Cancer Immunotherapy Discovery, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Zurich, Schlieren 8952, Switzerland
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- Cancer Immunotherapy Discovery, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Zurich, Schlieren 8952, Switzerland
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- Cancer Immunotherapy Discovery, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Zurich, Schlieren 8952, Switzerland
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- Cancer Immunotherapy Discovery, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Zurich, Schlieren 8952, Switzerland
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- Department of Immunohematology and Bloodtransfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2333, Netherlands
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- Cancer Immunotherapy Discovery, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Zurich, Schlieren 8952, Switzerland
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- Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Cancer Immunotherapy Discovery, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Zurich, Schlieren 8952, Switzerland
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- Cancer Immunotherapy Discovery, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Zurich, Schlieren 8952, Switzerland
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- Cancer Immunotherapy Discovery, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Zurich, Schlieren 8952, Switzerland
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biomarkers, Bioinformatics and Omics, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Munich, Penzberg 82377, Germany
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- Cancer Immunotherapy Discovery, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Zurich, Schlieren 8952, Switzerland
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- Department of Immunohematology and Bloodtransfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2333, Netherlands
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- Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Product Development, Genentech Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Cancer Immunotherapy Discovery, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Zurich, Schlieren 8952, Switzerland
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- Cancer Immunotherapy Discovery, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Zurich, Schlieren 8952, Switzerland
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- Cancer Immunotherapy Discovery, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Zurich, Schlieren 8952, Switzerland
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- Cancer Immunotherapy Discovery, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Zurich, Schlieren 8952, Switzerland.
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Banchereau R, Chitre AS, Scherl A, Wu TD, Patil NS, de Almeida P, Kadel Iii EE, Madireddi S, Au-Yeung A, Takahashi C, Chen YJ, Modrusan Z, McBride J, Nersesian R, El-Gabry EA, Robida MD, Hung JC, Kowanetz M, Zou W, McCleland M, Caplazi P, Eshgi ST, Koeppen H, Hegde PS, Mellman I, Mathews WR, Powles T, Mariathasan S, Grogan J, O'Gorman WE. Intratumoral CD103+ CD8+ T cells predict response to PD-L1 blockade. J Immunother Cancer 2021; 9:jitc-2020-002231. [PMID: 33827905 PMCID: PMC8032254 DOI: 10.1136/jitc-2020-002231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND CD8+ tissue-resident memory T (TRM) cells, marked by CD103 (ITGAE) expression, are thought to actively suppress cancer progression, leading to the hypothesis that their presence in tumors may predict response to immunotherapy. METHODS Here, we test this by combining high-dimensional single-cell modalities with bulk tumor transcriptomics from 1868 patients enrolled in lung and bladder cancer clinical trials of atezolizumab (anti-programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1)). RESULTS ITGAE was identified as the most significantly upregulated gene in inflamed tumors. Tumor CD103+ CD8+ TRM cells exhibited a complex phenotype defined by the expression of checkpoint regulators, cytotoxic proteins, and increased clonal expansion. CONCLUSIONS Our analyses indeed demonstrate that the presence of CD103+ CD8+ TRM cells, quantified by tracking intratumoral CD103 expression, can predict treatment outcome, suggesting that patients who respond to PD-1/PD-L1 blockade are those who exhibit an ongoing antitumor T-cell response.
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- Romain Banchereau
- Department of Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Cancer Immunology, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Research Pathology, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Cancer Immunology, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA.,Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp South San Francisco, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Cancer Immunology, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of OMNI Biomarker Development, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of OMNI Biomarker Development, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Microchemistry, Proteomics, Lipidomics, and Next Generation Sequencing, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA.,Analytical Biosciences Limited, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Microchemistry, Proteomics, Lipidomics, and Next Generation Sequencing, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of OMNI Biomarker Development, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Research Pathology, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA.,Bolt Biotherapeutics, Redwood City, California, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics Oncology, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Research Pathology, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of OMNI Biomarker Development, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Research Pathology, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Cancer Immunology, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of OMNI Biomarker Development, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Barts Cancer Center, Queen Mary University, London, UK
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- Department of Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Cancer Immunology, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of OMNI Biomarker Development, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA
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Patil NS, Zou W, Mocci S, Sandler A, Ballinger M, Flynn S, Kowanetz M, Hegde PS. C-reactive protein reduction post treatment is associated with improved survival in atezolizumab (anti-PD-L1) treated non-small cell lung cancer patients. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0246486. [PMID: 33534859 PMCID: PMC7857603 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2020] [Accepted: 01/15/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
Abstract
PURPOSE Overall survival (OS) is the most significant endpoint for evaluation of treatment benefit with checkpoint inhibitors (CPI) in cancer. We evaluated serum C-reactive protein (CRP) in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) trials with atezolizumab (anti-PD-L1) as an early OS surrogate. METHODS Serum from patients enrolled in randomized Phase II (n = 240) and Phase III (n = 701) trials of NSCLC patients (POPLAR, OAK) who progressed on prior-platinum chemotherapy, were analyzed for CRP levels over time. Patients were grouped by changes in CRP levels post-treatment as either increased (≥ 1.5 fold), decreased (≤ 1.5 fold) or unchanged (within +1.5 fold) relative to pre-treatment levels to assess association with progression free survival (PFS) and OS. RESULTS Decrease in serum CRP levels at 6 weeks relative to pre-treatment were observed in patients with RECIST1.1 based complete or partial responses (CR/PR) to atezolizumab whereas patients with disease progression (PD) demonstrated an increase in CRP levels in the Phase II POPLAR study, and confirmed in the Phase III OAK study. Decrease in serum CRP as early as six weeks post treatment predicted improved PFS and OS, even in patients who were determined as stable disease (SD) in their first scan. This effect was not observed in the chemotherapy arms. CONCLUSION Modulation of serum CRP correlates with clinical outcome post-atezolizumab treatment. This routine lab test may provide utility in informing OS signals as early as 6 weeks post-initiation of therapy with CPIs in NSCLC.
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- Namrata S. Patil
- Genentech, S. San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Genentech, S. San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Genentech, S. San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Genentech, S. San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Genentech, S. San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Genentech, S. San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Genentech, S. San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Genentech, S. San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Huang RSP, Haberberger J, Severson E, Duncan DL, Hemmerich A, Edgerly C, Ferguson NL, Williams E, Elvin J, Vergilio JA, Killian JK, Lin DI, Tse J, Hiemenz M, Owens C, Danziger N, Hegde PS, Venstrom J, Alexander B, Ross JS, Ramkissoon SH. A pan-cancer analysis of PD-L1 immunohistochemistry and gene amplification, tumor mutation burden and microsatellite instability in 48,782 cases. Mod Pathol 2021; 34:252-263. [PMID: 32884129 DOI: 10.1038/s41379-020-00664-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2020] [Revised: 08/17/2020] [Accepted: 08/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
Abstract
PD-L1 immunohistochemistry (IHC) currently has the most Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals as a companion diagnostic (CDx) for immunotherapies in specific tumor types; however, multiple other immunotherapy biomarkers exist. We performed this study to examine and report the prevalence of PD-L1 expression in a wide variety of tumor types and examine its relationship to microsatellite instability (MSI), tumor mutational burden (TMB), and CD274 (PD-L1) gene amplification. We performed a retrospective analysis of all cases in which both PD-L1 IHC (using the DAKO 22C3 IHC assay with either tumor proportion score (TPS) or combined positive score (CPS); or the VENTANA SP142 assay with infiltrating immune cell score (IC)) and comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) were tested at Foundation Medicine between January 2016 and November 2019. Of note, PD-L1 positivity is defined per the CDx indication and tumor proportion score (TPS ≥ 1) for indications without a CDx claim; and TMB positivity is defined as ≥10 mutations/Mb. A total of 48,782 cases were tested for PD-L1 IHC and CGP. Immune cell expression of PD-L1 was more frequently identified than tumor cell expression of PD-L1. We saw a high correlation between PD-L1 expression and CD274 gene amplification (p < 0.0001), MSI and TMB (p < 0.0001), and PD-L1 and TMB (p < 0.0001). In addition, the combination of PD-L1 and TMB identified four unique disease subsets PD-L1-/TMB-, PD-L1+/TMB-, PD-L1-/TMB+, and PD-L1+/TMB+ with varying prevalence dependent on tumor type. Lastly, 50.3% (24527/48782) of the overall cohort was positive for at least one of the CDx or exploratory biomarkers described above. This is the largest pan-cancer analysis of relevant biomarkers associated with response to checkpoint inhibitors to date, including more than 48,000 cases. Additional clinical trials with treatment outcome data in individual tumor types are needed to determine whether the double positive PD-L1+/TMB+ disease subset would respond best to immunotherapy.
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- Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA.,Department of Pathology, State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA
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- Foundation Medicine, Inc., Morrisville, NC, USA.,Wake Forest Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Pathology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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Motzer RJ, Banchereau R, Hamidi H, Powles T, McDermott D, Atkins MB, Escudier B, Liu LF, Leng N, Abbas AR, Fan J, Koeppen H, Lin J, Carroll S, Hashimoto K, Mariathasan S, Green M, Tayama D, Hegde PS, Schiff C, Huseni MA, Rini B. Molecular Subsets in Renal Cancer Determine Outcome to Checkpoint and Angiogenesis Blockade. Cancer Cell 2020; 38:803-817.e4. [PMID: 33157048 PMCID: PMC8436590 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccell.2020.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 230] [Impact Index Per Article: 57.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2020] [Revised: 08/21/2020] [Accepted: 10/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
Abstract
Integrated multi-omics evaluation of 823 tumors from advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) patients identifies molecular subsets associated with differential clinical outcomes to angiogenesis blockade alone or with a checkpoint inhibitor. Unsupervised transcriptomic analysis reveals seven molecular subsets with distinct angiogenesis, immune, cell-cycle, metabolism, and stromal programs. While sunitinib and atezolizumab + bevacizumab are effective in subsets with high angiogenesis, atezolizumab + bevacizumab improves clinical benefit in tumors with high T-effector and/or cell-cycle transcription. Somatic mutations in PBRM1 and KDM5C associate with high angiogenesis and AMPK/fatty acid oxidation gene expression, while CDKN2A/B and TP53 alterations associate with increased cell-cycle and anabolic metabolism. Sarcomatoid tumors exhibit lower prevalence of PBRM1 mutations and angiogenesis markers, frequent CDKN2A/B alterations, and increased PD-L1 expression. These findings can be applied to molecularly stratify patients, explain improved outcomes of sarcomatoid tumors to checkpoint blockade versus antiangiogenics alone, and develop personalized therapies in RCC and other indications.
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MESH Headings
- Angiogenesis Inhibitors/pharmacology
- Angiogenesis Inhibitors/therapeutic use
- Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized/pharmacology
- Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized/therapeutic use
- Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols/pharmacology
- Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols/therapeutic use
- Bevacizumab/pharmacology
- Bevacizumab/therapeutic use
- Biomarkers, Tumor/genetics
- Carcinoma, Renal Cell/drug therapy
- Carcinoma, Renal Cell/genetics
- Clinical Trials, Phase III as Topic
- Computational Biology/methods
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/drug effects
- Humans
- Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors/pharmacology
- Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors/therapeutic use
- Kidney Neoplasms/drug therapy
- Kidney Neoplasms/genetics
- Prognosis
- Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
- Sequence Analysis, RNA
- Sunitinib/pharmacology
- Sunitinib/therapeutic use
- Treatment Outcome
- Unsupervised Machine Learning
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- Robert J Motzer
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA.
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- Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Barts Cancer Institute and the Royal Free Hospital, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA.
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- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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Montesion M, Murugesan K, Jin DX, Sharaf R, Sanchez N, Guria A, Minker M, Li G, Fisher V, Sokol ES, Pavlick DC, Moore JA, Braly A, Singal G, Fabrizio D, Comment LA, Rizvi NA, Alexander BM, Frampton GM, Hegde PS, Albacker LA. Somatic HLA Class I Loss Is a Widespread Mechanism of Immune Evasion Which Refines the Use of Tumor Mutational Burden as a Biomarker of Checkpoint Inhibitor Response. Cancer Discov 2020; 11:282-292. [PMID: 33127846 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-20-0672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2020] [Revised: 09/14/2020] [Accepted: 10/27/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
Neoantigen presentation arises as a result of tumor-specific mutations and is a critical component of immune surveillance that can be abrogated by somatic LOH of the human leukocyte antigen class I (HLA-I) locus. To understand the role of HLA-I LOH in oncogenesis and treatment, we utilized a pan-cancer genomic dataset of 83,644 patient samples, a small subset of which had treatment outcomes with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI). HLA-I LOH was common (17%) and unexpectedly had a nonlinear relationship with tumor mutational burden (TMB). HLA-I LOH was frequent at intermediate TMB, yet prevalence decreased above 30 mutations/megabase, suggesting highly mutated tumors require alternate immune evasion mechanisms. In ICI-treated patients with nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer, HLA-I LOH was a significant negative predictor of overall survival. Survival prediction improved when combined with TMB, suggesting TMB with HLA-I LOH may better identify patients likely to benefit from ICIs. SIGNIFICANCE: This work shows the pan-cancer landscape of HLA-I LOH, revealing an unexpected "Goldilocks" relationship between HLA-I LOH and TMB, and demonstrates HLA-I LOH as a significant negative predictor of outcomes after ICI treatment. These data informed a combined predictor of outcomes after ICI and have implications for tumor vaccine development.This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 211.
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- Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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Comment LA, Ward AF, Schrock AB, Fabrizio D, Venstrom JM, Hegde PS, Alexander BM. Evidence-Based Development and Clinical Use of Precision Oncology Therapeutics. Clin Pharmacol Ther 2020; 108:440-443. [PMID: 32744335 PMCID: PMC7485138 DOI: 10.1002/cpt.1967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2020] [Accepted: 06/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- Leah A Comment
- Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Yuen KC, Liu LF, Gupta V, Madireddi S, Keerthivasan S, Li C, Rishipathak D, Williams P, Kadel EE, Koeppen H, Chen YJ, Modrusan Z, Grogan JL, Banchereau R, Leng N, Thastrom A, Shen X, Hashimoto K, Tayama D, van der Heijden MS, Rosenberg JE, McDermott DF, Powles T, Hegde PS, Huseni MA, Mariathasan S. High systemic and tumor-associated IL-8 correlates with reduced clinical benefit of PD-L1 blockade. Nat Med 2020; 26:693-698. [PMID: 32405063 DOI: 10.1038/s41591-020-0860-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 54.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2019] [Accepted: 03/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Although elevated plasma interleukin-8 (pIL-8) has been associated with poor outcome to immune checkpoint blockade 1, this has not been comprehensively evaluated in large randomized studies. Here we analyzed circulating pIL-8 and IL8 gene expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and tumors of patients treated with atezolizumab (anti-PD-L1 monoclonal antibody) from multiple randomized trials representing 1,445 patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC) and metastatic renal cell carcinoma. High levels of IL-8 in plasma, peripheral blood mononuclear cells and tumors were associated with decreased efficacy of atezolizumab in patients with mUC and metastatic renal cell carcinoma, even in tumors that were classically CD8+ T cell inflamed. Low baseline pIL-8 in patients with mUC was associated with increased response to atezolizumab and chemotherapy. Patients with mUC who experienced on-treatment decreases in pIL-8 exhibited improved overall survival when treated with atezolizumab but not with chemotherapy. Single-cell RNA sequencing of the immune compartment showed that IL8 is primarily expressed in circulating and intratumoral myeloid cells and that high IL8 expression is associated with downregulation of the antigen-presentation machinery. Therapies that can reverse the impacts of IL-8-mediated myeloid inflammation will be essential for improving outcomes of patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors.
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- Genitourinary Oncology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Barts Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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Cancer immunotherapy is a validated and critically important approach for treating patients with cancer. Given the vast research and clinical investigation efforts dedicated to advancing both endogenous and synthetic immunotherapy approaches, there is a need to focus on crucial questions and define roadblocks to the basic understanding and clinical progress. Here, we define ten key challenges facing cancer immunotherapy, which range from lack of confidence in translating pre-clinical findings to identifying optimal combinations of immune-based therapies for any given patient. Addressing these challenges will require the combined efforts of basic researchers and clinicians, and the focusing of resources to accelerate understanding of the complex interactions between cancer and the immune system and the development of improved treatment options for patients with cancer.
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Fehlings M, Jhunjhunwala S, Kowanetz M, O'Gorman WE, Hegde PS, Sumatoh H, Lee BH, Nardin A, Becht E, Flynn S, Ballinger M, Newell EW, Yadav M. Late-differentiated effector neoantigen-specific CD8+ T cells are enriched in peripheral blood of non-small cell lung carcinoma patients responding to atezolizumab treatment. J Immunother Cancer 2019; 7:249. [PMID: 31511069 PMCID: PMC6740011 DOI: 10.1186/s40425-019-0695-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2019] [Accepted: 07/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND There is strong evidence that immunotherapy-mediated tumor rejection can be driven by tumor-specific CD8+ T cells reinvigorated to recognize neoantigens derived from tumor somatic mutations. Thus, the frequencies or characteristics of tumor-reactive, mutation-specific CD8+ T cells could be used as biomarkers of an anti-tumor response. However, such neoantigen-specific T cells are difficult to reliably identify due to their low frequency in peripheral blood and wide range of potential epitope specificities. METHODS Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from 14 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients were collected pre- and post-treatment with the anti-PD-L1 antibody atezolizumab. Using whole exome sequencing and RNA sequencing we identified tumor neoantigens that are predicted to bind to major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC-I) and utilized mass cytometry, together with cellular 'barcoding', to profile immune cells from patients with objective response to therapy (n = 8) and those with progressive disease (n = 6). In parallel, a highly-multiplexed combinatorial tetramer staining was used to screen antigen-specific CD8+ T cells in peripheral blood for 782 candidate tumor neoantigens and 71 known viral-derived control peptide epitopes across all patient samples. RESULTS No significant treatment- or response associated phenotypic difference were measured in bulk CD8+ T cells. Multiplexed peptide-MHC multimer staining detected 20 different neoantigen-specific T cell populations, as well as T cells specific for viral control antigens. Not only were neoantigen-specific T cells more frequently detected in responding patients, their phenotypes were also almost entirely distinct. Neoantigen-specific T cells from responder patients typically showed a differentiated effector phenotype, most like Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and some types of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-specific CD8+ T cells. In contrast, more memory-like phenotypic profiles were observed for neoantigen-specific CD8+ T cells from patients with progressive disease. CONCLUSION This study demonstrates that neoantigen-specific T cells can be detected in peripheral blood in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients during anti-PD-L1 therapy. Patients with an objective response had an enrichment of neoantigen-reactive T cells and these cells showed a phenotype that differed from patients without a response. These findings suggest the ex vivo identification, characterization, and longitudinal follow-up of rare tumor-specific differentiated effector neoantigen-specific T cells may be useful in predicting response to checkpoint blockade. TRIAL REGISTRATION POPLAR trial NCT01903993 .
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- Genentech, 1 DNA way, South San Francisco, CA, 94080, USA
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- Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), Singapore, Singapore
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- Genentech, 1 DNA way, South San Francisco, CA, 94080, USA
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- Genentech, 1 DNA way, South San Francisco, CA, 94080, USA.
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Trabucco SE, Gowen K, Maund SL, Sanford E, Fabrizio DA, Hall MJ, Yakirevich E, Gregg JP, Stephens PJ, Frampton GM, Hegde PS, Miller VA, Ross JS, Hartmaier RJ, Huang SMA, Sun JX. A Novel Next-Generation Sequencing Approach to Detecting Microsatellite Instability and Pan-Tumor Characterization of 1000 Microsatellite Instability-High Cases in 67,000 Patient Samples. J Mol Diagn 2019; 21:1053-1066. [PMID: 31445211 PMCID: PMC7807551 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoldx.2019.06.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2018] [Revised: 03/12/2019] [Accepted: 06/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Microsatellite instability (MSI) is an important biomarker for predicting response to immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy, as emphasized by the recent checkpoint inhibitor approval for MSI-high (MSI-H) solid tumors. Herein, we describe and validate a novel method for determining MSI status from a next-generation sequencing comprehensive genomic profiling assay using formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded samples. This method is 97% (65/67) concordant with current standards, PCR and immunohistochemistry. We further apply this method to >67,000 patient tumor samples to identify genes and pathways that are enriched in MSI-stable or MSI-H tumor groups. Data show that although rare in tumors other than colorectal and endometrial carcinomas, MSI-H samples are present in many tumor types. Furthermore, the large sample set revealed that MSI-H tumors selectively share alterations in genes across multiple common pathways, including WNT, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, and NOTCH. Last, MSI is sufficient, but not necessary, for a tumor to have elevated tumor mutation burden. Therefore, MSI can be determined from comprehensive genomic profiling with high accuracy, allowing for efficient MSI-H detection across all tumor types, especially those in which routine use of immunohistochemistry or PCR-based assays would be impractical because of a rare incidence of MSI. MSI-H tumors are enriched in alterations in specific signaling pathways, providing a rationale for investigating directed immune checkpoint inhibitor therapies in combination with pathway-targeted therapies.
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- Sally E Trabucco
- Department of Research and Development, Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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- Department of Research and Development, Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Department of Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech, Inc., San Francisco, California
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- Department of Research and Development, Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Department of Research and Development, Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
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- Department of Research and Development, Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UC Davis Health, Sacramento, California
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- Department of Research and Development, Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Department of Research and Development, Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Department of Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech, Inc., San Francisco, California
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- Department of Research and Development, Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Department of Research and Development, Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Department of Research and Development, Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Department of Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech, Inc., San Francisco, California
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- Department of Research and Development, Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Hamid O, Molinero L, Bolen CR, Sosman JA, Muñoz-Couselo E, Kluger HM, McDermott DF, Powderly JD, Sarkar I, Ballinger M, Fassò M, O'Hear C, Chen DS, Hegde PS, Hodi FS. Safety, Clinical Activity, and Biological Correlates of Response in Patients with Metastatic Melanoma: Results from a Phase I Trial of Atezolizumab. Clin Cancer Res 2019; 25:6061-6072. [DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-18-3488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2018] [Revised: 03/29/2019] [Accepted: 07/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Lieber DS, White E, Silterra J, Zhong S, Brennan T, Coyne M, Kennedy M, Gandara DR, Kowanetz M, Paul SM, Schleifman E, Li Y, Rittmeyer A, Fehrenbacher L, Amler L, Riehl T, Cummings C, Hegde PS, Zou W, Sandler A, Ballinger M, Mok T, Shames DS, Lipson D, Malboeuf C, Fabrizio D. Abstract A41: Analytic validation and clinical feasibility of a next-generation sequencing assay to assess tumor mutational burden from blood (bTMB) as a biomarker for anti-PD-L1 response in NSCLC. Cancer Immunol Res 2018. [DOI: 10.1158/2326-6074.tumimm17-a41] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background: The need to identify biomarkers that predict benefit to checkpoint inhibitor therapies has led to the discovery and development of tumor mutational burden (TMB), a measure of potential tumor neoantigenicity derived from tissue biopsies that has shown clinical utility across a range of tumor types. A significant fraction of patients, however, are not candidates for tissue biopsies, presenting the need for blood-based methods to determine TMB. Here we describe the development of an assay to identify TMB from cell-free DNA derived from blood (bTMB). We present the analytic validation and clinical feasibility data that support the application of bTMB in a prospective clinical trial, BFAST (NCT03178552), evaluating the anti-PD-L1 agent atezolizumab in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Methods: The bTMB assay surveys somatic base substitutions down to 0.5% allele frequency across 394 genes from as little as 1% tumor content in a cell free DNA (cfDNA) sample derived from blood. Analytic validation was focused on establishing accuracy and precision of the bTMB measurement, as well as the minimum amount of cell-free and circulating tumor DNA required to make precise and reliable bTMB calls. The accuracy of two bTMB cutoffs was established against TMB derived from FoundationOne, an analytically validated TMB platform. Precision was evaluated by comparing the reproducibility of bTMB calls across replicate samples. We also retrospectively analyzed plasma samples from the OAK (NCT02008227) and POPLAR (NCT01903993) trials with the bTMB assay to determine the association of bTMB with atezolizumab clinical activity. The biomarker evaluable population (BEP) included 211 patients in POPLAR (intention-to-treat [ITT] =287) and 583 patients in OAK (excludes patients with known EGFR/ALK mutations; ITT=850), with blood samples available for targeted genomic sequencing. Assay positivity was defined as the presence of a number of somatic base substitutions greater than or equal to the bTMB cutoffs.
Results: The average positive percent agreement (PPA), negative percent agreement (NPA) and positive predictive value (PPV) across the bTMB cutoffs were 95%, 100% and 100%, respectively. The average precision was 96%, with a coefficient of variation of 7%. The assay limit of detection was defined as 1% tumor content in at least 20 ng of cfDNA. In POPLAR, improved progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) hazard ratios (HRs) with atezolizumab vs docetaxel were observed for patients with bTMB at or above a range of bTMB thresholds compared with the ITT and BEP populations. In OAK, PFS benefit with atezolizumab vs docetaxel was observed at bTMB thresholds ≥10 (cut point ≥10: HR 0.73; n=251) compared with BEP (HR 0.87, 95% CI 0.73-1.04; n=585). bTMB did not correlate with PD-L1 expression as measured by VENTANA SP142 immunohistochemistry.
Conclusions: We have developed and analytically validated a blood-based assay to determine TMB with high accuracy and precision, using as little as 1% tumor content in a sample with 20 ng of cfDNA. Retrospective analyses from POPLAR and OAK data provide the first demonstrations that blood-based measurement of TMB may be associated with atezolizumab clinical efficacy in second-line NSCLC. Thus, the bTMB assay may provide a non-invasive biomarker to identify patients who derive clinical benefit from single agent PD-1/PD-L1 inhibition. Prospective studies using bTMB are currently ongoing in patients with first-line NSCLC, including BFAST and B-F1RST (NCT02848651).
Citation Format: Daniel S. Lieber, Emily White, Jacob Silterra, Shan Zhong, Tina Brennan, Michael Coyne, Mark Kennedy, David R. Gandara, Marcin Kowanetz, Sarah M. Paul, Erica Schleifman, Yan Li, Achim Rittmeyer, Louis Fehrenbacher, Lukas Amler, Todd Riehl, Craig Cummings, Priti S. Hegde, Wei Zou, Alan Sandler, Marcus Ballinger, Tony Mok, David S. Shames, Doron Lipson, Christine Malboeuf, David Fabrizio. Analytic validation and clinical feasibility of a next-generation sequencing assay to assess tumor mutational burden from blood (bTMB) as a biomarker for anti-PD-L1 response in NSCLC [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the AACR Special Conference on Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy; 2017 Oct 1-4; Boston, MA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Immunol Res 2018;6(9 Suppl):Abstract nr A41.
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- 3Genentech, South San Francisco, CA,
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- 3Genentech, South San Francisco, CA,
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- 6Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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Li Y, Chang CW, Fasso M, O'Hear C, Hegde PS, Molinero L. Abstract 2616: Baseline blood lymphocytes are associated with improved clinical outcome in atezolizumab-treated patients across multiple indications. Cancer Res 2018. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2018-2616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background: The PD-L1/PD-1 inhibitors activate the immune system both in the tumor microenvironment and peripheral blood. Here we investigated the relationship between peripheral immune system and clinical outcome of metastatic cancer patients treated with atezolizumab (anti-PDL1) across five tumor types.
Methods: 426 patients with melanoma (n=45), non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC, n=89), kidney cancer (RCC, n=72), triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC, n=116) and bladder cancer (UBC, n=104) were treated with atezolizumab in the phase I clinical trial PCD4989g (NCT01375842). Normal/abnormal blood neutrophils, monocytes, eosinophils, basophils and lymphocytes were measured by local laboratories, while T (CD3, CD4 and CD8), B (CD19), and NK (CD56) lymphocyte subsets were centrally analyzed by flow cytometry. Neutrophil:lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and relative lymphocyte counts (RLC) were also evaluated. Association of the immune cell subsets and clinical outcome (ORR, PFS and OS) was assessed in multivariate analyses considering liver metastases, LDH, line of therapy and ECOG performance status.
Results: The prevalence of hematologic abnormalities across tumors was: lymphopenia (27-57%), followed by neutrophilia (2-24%), monocytosis (0-15%), eosinophilia (1-13%), eosinopenia (0-14%), basophilia (2-7%) and basopenia (0-6%). Neutrophilia, monocytosis, lymphopenia and low/high eosinophils were associated with worse PFS and OS, although with a different imprint depending on tumor ontogeny: neutrophilia was linked to reduced OS in melanoma and PFS for UBC, monocytosis was associated with lower OS in TNBC and UBC. Lymphopenia was associated with reduced PFS and OS in NSCLC, TNBC and reduced PFS in melanoma. NLR>=5 was associated with reduced PFS in melanoma, NSCLC, RCC, UBC and reduced OS in UBC, NSCLC and TNBC. RLC>=17.5% was linked to longer PFS in melanoma, RCC, UBC and to increased OS in TNBC, NSCLC and UBC. Lymphocyte subset analysis showed lymphopenia in B cells (40-61%), CD3 T cells (32-71%), CD4 T cells (28-66%), CD8 T cells (25-46%) and NK cells (16-23%). CD3 lymphopenia was associated to reduced OS in NSCLC, and CD4 lymphopenia was associated to reduced OS in NSCLC and TNBC. NK lymphopenia was associated to decreased OS and PFS in TNBC.
Conclusion: This is the first study showing that higher pretreatment relative lymphocyte counts is associated to improved clinical outcome in patients from different tumor etiologies treated with atezolizumab. The association of peripheral T cell counts to improved outcome in some indications suggests that the local antitumor response may be linked to pre-existing systemic T cells.
Citation Format: Yijin Li, Ching-Wei Chang, Marcella Fasso, Carol O'Hear, Priti S. Hegde, Luciana Molinero. Baseline blood lymphocytes are associated with improved clinical outcome in atezolizumab-treated patients across multiple indications [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2018; 2018 Apr 14-18; Chicago, IL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 2616.
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- Yijin Li
- Genentech, South San Francisco, CA
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Weekes CD, Rosen LS, Capasso A, Wong KM, Ye W, Anderson M, McCall B, Fredrickson J, Wakshull E, Eppler S, Shon-Nguyen Q, Desai R, Huseni M, Hegde PS, Pourmohamad T, Rhee I, Bessudo A. Phase I study of the anti-α5β1 monoclonal antibody MINT1526A with or without bevacizumab in patients with advanced solid tumors. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 2018; 82:339-351. [PMID: 29905898 DOI: 10.1007/s00280-018-3622-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2018] [Accepted: 06/08/2018] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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PURPOSE MINT1526A is a monoclonal antibody that blocks the interaction of integrin alpha 5 beta 1 (α5β1) with its extracellular matrix ligands. This phase I study evaluated the safety and pharmacokinetics of MINT1526A with or without bevacizumab in patients with advanced solid tumors. METHODS MINT1526A was administered every 3 weeks (Q3W) as monotherapy (arm 1) or in combination with bevacizumab 15 mg/kg, Q3W (arm 2). Each arm included a 3 + 3 dose-escalation stage and a dose-expansion stage. RESULTS Twenty-four patients were enrolled in arm 1 (dose range 2-30 mg/kg) and 30 patients were enrolled in arm 2 (dose range 3-15 mg/kg). Monocyte α5β1 receptor occupancy was saturated at a dose of 15 mg/kg. No dose-limiting toxicities were observed, and the maximum tolerated dose was not reached in either arm. The most common adverse events, regardless of causality, included abdominal pain (25%), diarrhea (25%), nausea (21%), vomiting (21%), and fatigue (21%) in arm 1 and nausea (40%), fatigue (33%), vomiting (30%), dehydration (30%), headache (30%), and hypertension (30%) in arm 2. No grade ≥ 3 bleeding events were observed in either arm. No confirmed partial responses (PR) were observed in arm 1. In arm 2, one patient with thymic carcinoma experienced a confirmed PR and two patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) experienced durable minor radiographic responses. CONCLUSIONS MINT1526A, with or without bevacizumab, was well-tolerated. Preliminary evidence of combination efficacy, including in patients with HCC, was observed, but cannot be distinguished from bevacizumab monotherapy in this phase I study.
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- Colin D Weekes
- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St, Yawkey 7E, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
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- Division of Hematology-Oncology, University of California-Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA, USA
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- Division of Medical Oncology, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Developmental Therapeutics Program, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Division of Medical Oncology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA
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- California Cancer Associates for Research & Excellence, Encinitas, CA, USA
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Jarzabek MA, Proctor WR, Vogt J, Desai R, Dicker P, Cain G, Raja R, Brodbeck J, Stevens D, van der Stok EP, Martens JWM, Verhoef C, Hegde PS, Byrne AT, Tarrant JM. Interrogation of transcriptomic changes associated with drug-induced hepatic sinusoidal dilatation in colorectal cancer. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0198099. [PMID: 29879147 PMCID: PMC5991753 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0198099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2017] [Accepted: 05/14/2018] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Drug-related sinusoidal dilatation (SD) is a common form of hepatotoxicity associated with oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy used prior to resection of colorectal liver metastases (CRLM). Recently, hepatic SD has also been associated with anti-delta like 4 (DLL4) cancer therapies targeting the NOTCH pathway. To investigate the hypothesis that NOTCH signaling plays an important role in drug-induced SD, gene expression changes were examined in livers from anti-DLL4 and oxaliplatin-induced SD in non-human primate (NHP) and patients, respectively. Putative mechanistic biomarkers of bevacizumab (bev)-mediated protection against oxaliplatin-induced SD were also investigated. RNA was extracted from whole liver sections or centrilobular regions by laser-capture microdissection (LCM) obtained from NHP administered anti-DLL4 fragment antigen-binding (F(ab’)2 or patients with CRLM receiving oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy with or without bev. mRNA expression was quantified using high-throughput real-time quantitative PCR. Significance analysis was used to identify genes with differential expression patterns (false discovery rate (FDR) < 0.05). Eleven (CCL2, CCND1, EFNB2, ERG, ICAM1, IL16, LFNG, NOTCH1, NOTCH4, PRDX1, and TGFB1) and six (CDH5, EFNB2, HES1, IL16, MIK67, HES1 and VWF) candidate genes were differentially expressed in the liver of anti-DLL4- and oxaliplatin-induced SD, respectively. Addition of bev to oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy resulted in differential changes in hepatic CDH5, HEY1, IL16, JAG1, MMP9, NOTCH4 and TIMP1 expression. This work implicates NOTCH and IL16 pathways in the pathogenesis of drug-induced SD and further explains the hepato-protective effect of bev in oxaliplatin-induced SD observed in CRLM patients.
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- Monika A. Jarzabek
- Department of Physiology and Medical Physics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Safety Assessment, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Department of Safety Assessment, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Department of Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Safety Assessment, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Department of Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Department of Safety Assessment, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Department of Safety Assessment, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology and Medical Physics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Safety Assessment, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Legrand FA, Gandara DR, Mariathasan S, Powles T, He X, Zhang W, Jhunjhunwala S, Nickles D, Bourgon R, Schleifman E, Paul SM, Kadel EE, Kowanetz M, Cummings C, Li Y, Fabrizio D, Peters E, Hegde PS, Amler L, Shames DS. Association of high tissue TMB and atezolizumab efficacy across multiple tumor types. J Clin Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2018.36.15_suppl.12000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA
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- Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA
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Rittmeyer A, Gadgeel S, Kowanetz M, Zou W, Hirsch FR, Kerr KM, Gandara D, Barlesi F, Park K, McCleland M, Koeppen H, Ballinger M, Sandler A, Hegde PS. Clinical Efficacy of atezolizumab (atezo) in PD-L1 subgroups defined by SP142 and 22C3 IHC assays in 2L+ NSCLC: Results from the randomized OAK study. Pneumologie 2018. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1619252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
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- Genentech Inc., South San Francisco
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- Division of Medical Oncology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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- Department of Pathology, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary/Aberdeen University Medical School
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- UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sacramento, CA,
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- Aix Marseille University; Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille
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- Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Genentech Inc., South San Francisco
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Rittmeyer A, Gandara D, Kowanetz M, Mok T, Fehrenbacher L, Fabrizio D, Otto G, Malboeuf C, Lieber D, Paul SM, Amler L, Riehl T, Schleifman E, Cummings C, Hegde PS, Zou W, Sandler A, Ballinger M, Shames DS. Blood-Based Biomarkers for Cancer Immunotherapy: Tumor Mutational Burden in Blood (bTMB) is Associated with Improved Atezolizumab (atezo) Efficacy in 2L+ NSCLC (POPLAR and OAK). Pneumologie 2018. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1619250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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- UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sacramento, CA
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- State Key Laboratory of South China, Hong Kong Cancer Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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- Foundation Medicine Inc., Cambridge, USA
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- Foundation Medicine Inc., Cambridge, USA
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- Foundation Medicine Inc., Cambridge, USA
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- Foundation Medicine Inc., Cambridge, USA
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- Genentech Inc., South San Francisco
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- Genentech Inc., South San Francisco
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- Genentech Inc., South San Francisco
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- Genentech Inc., South San Francisco
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- Genentech Inc., South San Francisco
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Powles T, Durán I, van der Heijden MS, Loriot Y, Vogelzang NJ, De Giorgi U, Oudard S, Retz MM, Castellano D, Bamias A, Fléchon A, Gravis G, Hussain S, Takano T, Leng N, Kadel EE, Banchereau R, Hegde PS, Mariathasan S, Cui N, Shen X, Derleth CL, Green MC, Ravaud A. Atezolizumab versus chemotherapy in patients with platinum-treated locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma (IMvigor211): a multicentre, open-label, phase 3 randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2018; 391:748-757. [PMID: 29268948 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(17)33297-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 958] [Impact Index Per Article: 159.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2017] [Revised: 09/23/2017] [Accepted: 10/02/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND Few options exist for patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma after progression with platinum-based chemotherapy. We aimed to assess the safety and efficacy of atezolizumab (anti-programmed death-ligand 1 [PD-L1]) versus chemotherapy in this patient population. METHODS We conducted this multicentre, open-label, phase 3 randomised controlled trial (IMvigor211) at 217 academic medical centres and community oncology practices mainly in Europe, North America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Patients (aged ≥18 years) with metastatic urothelial carcinoma who had progressed after platinum-based chemotherapy were randomly assigned (1:1), via an interactive voice and web response system with a permuted block design (block size of four), to receive atezolizumab 1200 mg or chemotherapy (physician's choice: vinflunine 320 mg/m2, paclitaxel 175 mg/m2, or 75 mg/m2 docetaxel) intravenously every 3 weeks. Randomisation was stratified by PD-L1 expression (expression on <1% [IC0] or 1% to <5% [IC1] of tumour-infiltrating immune cells vs ≥5% of tumour-infiltrating immune cells [IC2/3]), chemotherapy type (vinflunine vs taxanes), liver metastases (yes vs no), and number of prognostic factors (none vs one, two, or three). Patients and investigators were aware of group allocation. Patients, investigators, and the sponsor were masked to PD-L1 expression status. The primary endpoint of overall survival was tested hierarchically in prespecified populations: IC2/3, followed by IC1/2/3, followed by the intention-to-treat population. This study, which is ongoing but not recruiting participants, is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT02302807. FINDINGS Between Jan 13, 2015, and Feb 15, 2016, we randomly assigned 931 patients from 198 sites to receive atezolizumab (n=467) or chemotherapy (n=464). In the IC2/3 population (n=234), overall survival did not differ significantly between patients in the atezolizumab group and those in the chemotherapy group (median 11·1 months [95% CI 8·6-15·5; n=116] vs 10·6 months [8·4-12·2; n=118]; stratified hazard ratio [HR] 0·87, 95% CI 0·63-1·21; p=0·41), thus precluding further formal statistical analysis. Confirmed objective response rates were similar between treatment groups in the IC2/3 population: 26 (23%) of 113 evaluable patients had an objective response in the atezolizumab group compared with 25 (22%) of 116 patients in the chemotherapy group. Duration of response was numerically longer in the atezolizumab group than in the chemotherapy group (median 15·9 months [95% CI 10·4 to not estimable] vs 8·3 months [5·6-13·2]; HR 0·57, 95% CI 0·26-1·26). In the intention-to-treat population, patients receiving atezolizumab had fewer grade 3-4 treatment-related adverse events than did those receiving chemotherapy (91 [20%] of 459 vs 189 [43%] of 443 patients), and fewer adverse events leading to treatment discontinuation (34 [7%] vs 78 [18%] patients). INTERPRETATION Atezolizumab was not associated with significantly longer overall survival than chemotherapy in patients with platinum-refractory metastatic urothelial carcinoma overexpressing PD-L1 (IC2/3). However, the safety profile for atezolizumab was favourable compared with chemotherapy, Exploratory analysis of the intention-to-treat population showed well-tolerated, durable responses in line with previous phase 2 data for atezolizumab in this setting. FUNDING F Hoffmann-La Roche, Genentech.
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- Thomas Powles
- Barts Cancer Institute, Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, Queen Mary University of London, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK.
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- Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain; Institute of Biomedicine of Seville, Seville, Spain
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- Département de Médecine Oncologique, Université Paris-Saclay, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
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- US Oncology Research, Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA
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- Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo studio e la Cura dei Tumori IRST IRCCS, Meldola, Italy
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- Oncology Department, European Georges Pompidou Hospital, René Descartes University, Paris, France
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- Department of Urology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- University Hospital 12 de Octubre, Medical Oncology Department CIBER-ONC, Madrid, Spain
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- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Alexandra Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Cancer Medicine, Institut Paoli Calmette, Marseille, France
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- Plymouth University, Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth University Hospitals NHS Trust, Plymouth, UK
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France
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Mariathasan S, Turley SJ, Nickles D, Castiglioni A, Yuen K, Wang Y, Kadel EE, Koeppen H, Astarita JL, Cubas R, Jhunjhunwala S, Banchereau R, Yang Y, Guan Y, Chalouni C, Ziai J, Şenbabaoğlu Y, Santoro S, Sheinson D, Hung J, Giltnane JM, Pierce AK, Mesh K, Lianoglou S, Riegler J, Carano RAD, Eriksson P, Hoglund M, Somarriba L, Halligan DL, van der Heijden M, Loriot Y, Rosenberg JE, Fong L, Mellman I, Chen DS, Green M, Derleth C, Fine GD, Hegde PS, Bourgon R, Powles T. TGFβ attenuates tumour response to PD-L1 blockade by contributing to exclusion of T cells. Nature 2018; 554:544-548. [PMID: 29443960 PMCID: PMC6028240 DOI: 10.1038/nature25501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2948] [Impact Index Per Article: 491.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2017] [Accepted: 01/08/2018] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Therapeutic antibodies that block the programmed death-1 (PD-1)-programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) pathway can induce robust and durable responses in patients with various cancers, including metastatic urothelial cancer. However, these responses only occur in a subset of patients. Elucidating the determinants of response and resistance is key to improving outcomes and developing new treatment strategies. Here we examined tumours from a large cohort of patients with metastatic urothelial cancer who were treated with an anti-PD-L1 agent (atezolizumab) and identified major determinants of clinical outcome. Response to treatment was associated with CD8+ T-effector cell phenotype and, to an even greater extent, high neoantigen or tumour mutation burden. Lack of response was associated with a signature of transforming growth factor β (TGFβ) signalling in fibroblasts. This occurred particularly in patients with tumours, which showed exclusion of CD8+ T cells from the tumour parenchyma that were instead found in the fibroblast- and collagen-rich peritumoural stroma; a common phenotype among patients with metastatic urothelial cancer. Using a mouse model that recapitulates this immune-excluded phenotype, we found that therapeutic co-administration of TGFβ-blocking and anti-PD-L1 antibodies reduced TGFβ signalling in stromal cells, facilitated T-cell penetration into the centre of tumours, and provoked vigorous anti-tumour immunity and tumour regression. Integration of these three independent biological features provides the best basis for understanding patient outcome in this setting and suggests that TGFβ shapes the tumour microenvironment to restrain anti-tumour immunity by restricting T-cell infiltration.
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- Genentech, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Genentech, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Genentech, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Genentech, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Genentech, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Genentech, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Genentech, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Genentech, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Division of Oncology and Pathology, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Skåne, SE-223 81, Sweden
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- Division of Oncology and Pathology, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Skåne, SE-223 81, Sweden
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- Department of Cancer Medicine, Institut Gustave Roussy, University of Paris Sud, 94800 Villejuif, France
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- Genitourinary Oncology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- University of California San Francisco, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, California 94158, USA
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- Genentech, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Genentech, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Barts Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK
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Powles T, Loriot Y, Ravaud A, Vogelzang NJ, Duran I, Retz M, De Giorgi U, Oudard S, Bamias A, Koeppen H, Leng N, Kadel EE, Hegde PS, Cui N, Shen X, Derleth CL, Green MC, Banchereau R, Mariathasan S, Van Der Heijden MS. Atezolizumab (atezo) vs. chemotherapy (chemo) in platinum-treated locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC): Immune biomarkers, tumor mutational burden (TMB), and clinical outcomes from the phase III IMvigor211 study. J Clin Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2018.36.6_suppl.409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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409 Background: IMvigor211 is a global study of atezo vs chemo in platinum-treated mUC. The study did not meet its primary endpoint of overall survival (OS) in programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1)–selected patients (pts),1 but exploratory analyses showed improved OS for atezo in the intent-to-treat (ITT) population. Here we compare clinical outcomes in ITT and prespecified PD-L1 subgroups with those in subgroups defined by immune transcriptional gene expression (tGE) signatures and TMB. Methods: Pts with ≤ 2 prior lines of therapy for mUC who progressed during or following platinum treatment were randomized 1:1 to atezo or chemo (vinflunine, paclitaxel or docetaxel, per physician). The primary endpoint was OS, hierarchically compared between treatment arms in PD-L1–selected and ITT pts. Planned exploratory biomarker analyses included tGE (RNA-seq) and TMB (FoundationOne). Results: The ITT population included 931 pts (atezo arm, 467; chemo arm, 464), and biomarker-evaluable subgroups were representative of the ITT population. PD-L1 expression positively correlated with tGE (R = 0.61) but not TMB (R = 0.13). OS and hazard ratios (HRs) are listed in the Table. Conclusions: In this randomized Phase III study, we show that high PD-L1 and high tGE are associated with improved outcomes with both chemo and atezo. In contrast, higher TMB predicted OS in favor of atezo; however, clinical benefit with atezo was also seen in the ITT population. Clinical trial information: NCT02302807. [Table: see text]
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- Thomas Powles
- Barts Health NHS Trust – St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, IBiS/Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Rechts der Isar University Hospital, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori IRCCS, Meldola, Italy
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- Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA
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- Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA
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Hegde PS, Wallin JJ, Mancao C. Predictive markers of anti-VEGF and emerging role of angiogenesis inhibitors as immunotherapeutics. Semin Cancer Biol 2017; 52:117-124. [PMID: 29229461 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2017.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 279] [Impact Index Per Article: 39.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2017] [Revised: 12/02/2017] [Accepted: 12/07/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The critical role of angiogenesis in promoting tumor growth and metastasis has been well established scientifically, and consequently blocking this pathway as a therapeutic strategy has demonstrated great clinical success for the treatment of cancer. The holy grail however, has been the identification of patients who derive significant survival benefit from this class of agents. Here we attempt to delineate the diverse mechanisms related to anti-VEGF including its role as an anti-vascular, anti-angiogenic or an anti-permeability factor and review the most promising predictive biomarkers interrogated in large clinical trials, that identify patients who may derive significant survival advantage with VEGF inhibition. Lastly, we describe the function of VEGF as an immunomodulator and illustrate the evidence for anti-VEGF in reprogramming the tumor milieu from an immunosuppressive to an immune permissive microenvironment in human cancers, thus elucidating the role of anti-VEGF as an optimal combination partner for immune checkpoint inhibitors.
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- Priti S Hegde
- Genentech, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA.
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Wongchenko MJ, McArthur GA, Dréno B, Larkin J, Ascierto PA, Sosman J, Andries L, Kockx M, Hurst SD, Caro I, Rooney I, Hegde PS, Molinero L, Yue H, Chang I, Amler L, Yan Y, Ribas A. Gene Expression Profiling in BRAF-Mutated Melanoma Reveals Patient Subgroups with Poor Outcomes to Vemurafenib That May Be Overcome by Cobimetinib Plus Vemurafenib. Clin Cancer Res 2017; 23:5238-5245. [PMID: 28536307 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-17-0172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2017] [Revised: 03/24/2017] [Accepted: 05/18/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Purpose: The association of tumor gene expression profiles with progression-free survival (PFS) outcomes in patients with BRAFV600-mutated melanoma treated with vemurafenib or cobimetinib combined with vemurafenib was evaluated.Experimental Design: Gene expression of archival tumor samples from patients in four trials (BRIM-2, BRIM-3, BRIM-7, and coBRIM) was evaluated. Genes significantly associated with PFS (P < 0.05) were identified by univariate Cox proportional hazards modeling, then subjected to unsupervised hierarchical clustering, principal component analysis, and recursive partitioning to develop optimized gene signatures.Results: Forty-six genes were identified as significantly associated with PFS in both BRIM-2 (n = 63) and the vemurafenib arm of BRIM-3 (n = 160). Two distinct signatures were identified: cell cycle and immune. Among vemurafenib-treated patients, the cell-cycle signature was associated with shortened PFS compared with the immune signature in the BRIM-2/BRIM-3 training set [hazard ratio (HR) 1.8; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.3-2.6, P = 0.0001] and in the coBRIM validation set (n = 101; HR, 1.6; 95% CI, 1.0-2.5; P = 0.08). The adverse impact of the cell-cycle signature on PFS was not observed in patients treated with cobimetinib combined with vemurafenib (n = 99; HR, 1.1; 95% CI, 0.7-1.8; P = 0.66).Conclusions: In vemurafenib-treated patients, the cell-cycle gene signature was associated with shorter PFS. However, in cobimetinib combined with vemurafenib-treated patients, both cell cycle and immune signature subgroups had comparable PFS. Cobimetinib combined with vemurafenib may abrogate the adverse impact of the cell-cycle signature. Clin Cancer Res; 23(17); 5238-45. ©2017 AACR.
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- Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California
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- Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California
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- Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California
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- Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California
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- Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California
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- Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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Balar AV, Galsky MD, Rosenberg JE, Powles T, Petrylak DP, Bellmunt J, Loriot Y, Necchi A, Hoffman-Censits J, Perez-Gracia JL, Dawson NA, van der Heijden MS, Dreicer R, Srinivas S, Retz MM, Joseph RW, Drakaki A, Vaishampayan UN, Sridhar SS, Quinn DI, Durán I, Shaffer DR, Eigl BJ, Grivas PD, Yu EY, Li S, Kadel EE, Boyd Z, Bourgon R, Hegde PS, Mariathasan S, Thåström A, Abidoye OO, Fine GD, Bajorin DF. Atezolizumab as first-line treatment in cisplatin-ineligible patients with locally advanced and metastatic urothelial carcinoma: a single-arm, multicentre, phase 2 trial. Lancet 2017; 389:67-76. [PMID: 27939400 PMCID: PMC5568632 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(16)32455-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1491] [Impact Index Per Article: 213.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2016] [Revised: 11/15/2016] [Accepted: 11/15/2016] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND First-line chemotherapy for patients with cisplatin-ineligible locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma is associated with short response duration, poor survival, and high toxicity. This study assessed atezolizumab (anti-programmed death-ligand 1 [PD-L1]) as treatment for metastatic urothelial cancer in cisplatin-ineligible patients. METHODS For this single-arm, multicentre, phase 2 study, in 47 academic medical centres and community oncology practices in seven countries in North America and Europe, we recruited previously untreated patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer who were cisplatin ineligible. Patients were given 1200 mg intravenous atezolizumab every 21 days until progression. The primary endpoint was independently confirmed objective response rate per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1 (central review), assessed in prespecified subgroups based on PD-L1 expression and in all patients. All participants who received one or more doses of atezolizumab were included in the primary and safety analyses. This study was registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT02108652. FINDINGS Between June 9, 2014, and March 30, 2015, we enrolled 123 patients, of whom 119 received one or more doses of atezolizumab. At 17·2 months' median follow-up, the objective response rate was 23% (95% CI 16 to 31), the complete response rate was 9% (n=11), and 19 of 27 responses were ongoing. Median response duration was not reached. Responses occurred across all PD-L1 and poor prognostic factor subgroups. Median progression-free survival was 2·7 months (2·1 to 4·2). Median overall survival was 15·9 months (10·4 to not estimable). Tumour mutation load was associated with response. Treatment-related adverse events that occurred in 10% or more of patients were fatigue (36 [30%] patients), diarrhoea (14 [12%] patients), and pruritus (13 [11%] patients). One treatment-related death (sepsis) occurred. Nine (8%) patients had an adverse event leading to treatment discontinuation. Immune-mediated events occurred in 14 (12%) patients. INTERPRETATION Atezolizumab showed encouraging durable response rates, survival, and tolerability, supporting its therapeutic use in untreated metastatic urothelial cancer. FUNDING F Hoffmann-La Roche, Genentech.
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MESH Headings
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/administration & dosage
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/adverse effects
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/therapeutic use
- Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized
- Antineoplastic Agents/administration & dosage
- Antineoplastic Agents/adverse effects
- Antineoplastic Agents/therapeutic use
- B7-H1 Antigen/blood
- Biomarkers, Tumor/blood
- Carcinoma, Transitional Cell/blood
- Carcinoma, Transitional Cell/drug therapy
- Carcinoma, Transitional Cell/secondary
- Cisplatin
- Contraindications
- Female
- Humans
- Infusions, Intravenous
- Kaplan-Meier Estimate
- Lymphatic Metastasis
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors
- Urologic Neoplasms/blood
- Urologic Neoplasms/drug therapy
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- Arjun V Balar
- Genitourinary Cancers Program, Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
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- The Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Genitourinary Oncology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Barts Cancer Institute ECMC, Barts Health and the Royal Free NHS Trust, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Département de médecine oncologique, Université Paris-Saclay and Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Oncology, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Navarre, Spain
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- Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Division of Oncology/Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Urology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Hematology/Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology and Institute of Urologic Oncology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío and Institute of Biomedicine of Seville, Seville, Spain
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- British Columbia Cancer Agency, British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington and Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Genitourinary Oncology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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Hegde PS, Karanikas V, Evers S. The Where, the When, and the How of Immune Monitoring for Cancer Immunotherapies in the Era of Checkpoint Inhibition. Clin Cancer Res 2016; 22:1865-74. [PMID: 27084740 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-15-1507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 605] [Impact Index Per Article: 75.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2015] [Accepted: 02/26/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Clinical trials with immune checkpoint inhibitors have provided important insights into the mode of action of anticancer immune therapies and potential mechanisms of immune escape. Development of the next wave of rational clinical combination strategies will require a deep understanding of the mechanisms by which combination partners influence the battle between the immune system's capabilities to fight cancer and the immune-suppressive processes that promote tumor growth. This review focuses on our current understanding of tumor and circulating pharmacodynamic correlates of immune modulation and elaborates on lessons learned from human translational research with checkpoint inhibitors. Actionable tumor markers of immune activation including CD8(+)T cells, PD-L1 IHC as a pharmacodynamic marker of T-cell function, T-cell clonality, and challenges with conduct of trials that ask scientific questions from serial biopsies are addressed. Proposals for clinical trial design, as well as future applications of peripheral pharmacodynamic endpoints as potential surrogates of early clinical activity, are discussed. On the basis of emerging mechanisms of response and immune escape, we propose the concept of the tumor immunity continuum as a framework for developing rational combination strategies.
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- Priti S Hegde
- Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech, South San Francisco, California.
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- Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Translational Medicine Oncology, Roche Innovation Center, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Translational Medicine Oncology, Roche Innovation Center, Zurich, Switzerland
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Wallin JJ, Bendell JC, Funke R, Sznol M, Korski K, Jones S, Hernandez G, Mier J, He X, Hodi FS, Denker M, Leveque V, Cañamero M, Babitski G, Koeppen H, Ziai J, Sharma N, Gaire F, Chen DS, Waterkamp D, Hegde PS, McDermott DF. Atezolizumab in combination with bevacizumab enhances antigen-specific T-cell migration in metastatic renal cell carcinoma. Nat Commun 2016; 7:12624. [PMID: 27571927 PMCID: PMC5013615 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 494] [Impact Index Per Article: 61.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2016] [Accepted: 07/18/2016] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Anti-tumour immune activation by checkpoint inhibitors leads to durable responses in a variety of cancers, but combination approaches are required to extend this benefit beyond a subset of patients. In preclinical models tumour-derived VEGF limits immune cell activity while anti-VEGF augments intra-tumoral T-cell infiltration, potentially through vascular normalization and endothelial cell activation. This study investigates how VEGF blockade with bevacizumab could potentiate PD-L1 checkpoint inhibition with atezolizumab in mRCC. Tissue collections are before treatment, after bevacizumab and after the addition of atezolizumab. We discover that intra-tumoral CD8+ T cells increase following combination treatment. A related increase is found in intra-tumoral MHC-I, Th1 and T-effector markers, and chemokines, most notably CX3CL1 (fractalkine). We also discover that the fractalkine receptor increases on peripheral CD8+ T cells with treatment. Furthermore, trafficking lymphocyte increases are observed in tumors following bevacizumab and combination treatment. These data suggest that the anti-VEGF and anti-PD-L1 combination improves antigen-specific T-cell migration. Cancer immunotherapy can be used in combination with other therapies for a better response. Here, the authors conduct a phase Ib clinical study and report the clinical activity and the immune response of the anti-PDL1 agent, atezolizumab, in combination with bevacizumab in ten patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.
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- Jeffrey J Wallin
- Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- GI Oncology Research, Drug Development Unit, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, 250 25th Avenue North, Suite 100, Nashville, Tennessee, 37203, USA
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- Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Melanoma Unit, Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- GI Oncology Research, Drug Development Unit, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, 250 25th Avenue North, Suite 100, Nashville, Tennessee, 37203, USA
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- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, Massachusets 02215, USA
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- Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, Massachusets 02215, USA
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- Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Nonnenwald 2, 82377 Penzberg, Germany
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- Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Nonnenwald 2, 82377 Penzberg, Germany
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- Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Nonnenwald 2, 82377 Penzberg, Germany
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- Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, Massachusets 02215, USA
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Hegde PS. Abstract SY09-01: The tumor immunity continuum as a framework for rational combinations. Cancer Res 2016. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2016-sy09-01] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The PD-L1/PD-1 pathway is emerging as a central axis for immune-based therapeutic strategies in the treatment of multiple cancers. While these therapies are defined by durable responses extending to impressive overall survival improvement, this clinical benefit is limited to a few. We utilized gene signature analysis of cell subsets associated with the TME and molecular classification of disease using whole transcriptome analysis, PD-L1 IHC, CD8 IHC and tumor mutational load to identify signatures associated with immune response to atezolizumab (ati-PDL1) therapy from large Phase II trials and describe signatures associated with immune escape. Namely, we demonstrate that a preexisting immune response associated with inflamed tumors is highly predictive of clinical benefit to checkpoint inhibition. In addition, we describe both histological and molecular phenotypes associated with immune escape. The biological drivers of PD-L1 expression on tumor cells and tumor infiltrating immune cells will be presented. Using the lessons learned from human tumor immunology, we propose the concept of the tumor immunity continuum as a framework to expand the patient pool that derive long-term clinical benefit by harnessing their immune system.
Citation Format: Priti S. Hegde. The tumor immunity continuum as a framework for rational combinations. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2016 Apr 16-20; New Orleans, LA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2016;76(14 Suppl):Abstract nr SY09-01.
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Rosenberg JE, Petrylak DP, Van Der Heijden MS, Necchi A, O'Donnell PH, Loriot Y, Retz M, Perez-Gracia JL, Bellmunt J, Grivas P, Joseph RW, Fong L, Kadel EE, Boyd Z, Nickles D, Frampton GM, Bourgon R, Hegde PS, Mariathasan S, Powles T. PD-L1 expression, Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) subtype, and mutational load as independent predictors of response to atezolizumab (atezo) in metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC; IMvigor210). J Clin Oncol 2016. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2016.34.15_suppl.104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Cancer Medicine, Institut Gustave Roussy, Paris-Sud University, Villejuif, France
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- Department of Urology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland, OH
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- University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Barts Cancer Institute, Barts Health, and The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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Schmid P, Hegde PS, Zou W, Kowanetz M, Mariathasan S, Molinero L, Gadgeel SM, Powles T, Van Der Heijden MS, Fasso M, O'Hear C, Ballinger M, Fine GD, Sandler A, Chen DS, Hodi FS. Association of PD-L2 expression in human tumors with atezolizumab activity. J Clin Oncol 2016. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2016.34.15_suppl.11506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA
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- Barts Cancer Institute, Barts Health, and The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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Yuan J, Hegde PS, Clynes R, Foukas PG, Harari A, Kleen TO, Kvistborg P, Maccalli C, Maecker HT, Page DB, Robins H, Song W, Stack EC, Wang E, Whiteside TL, Zhao Y, Zwierzina H, Butterfield LH, Fox BA. Novel technologies and emerging biomarkers for personalized cancer immunotherapy. J Immunother Cancer 2016. [PMID: 26788324 DOI: 10.1186/s40425-016-0107-3.] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
The culmination of over a century's work to understand the role of the immune system in tumor control has led to the recent advances in cancer immunotherapies that have resulted in durable clinical responses in patients with a variety of malignancies. Cancer immunotherapies are rapidly changing traditional treatment paradigms and expanding the therapeutic landscape for cancer patients. However, despite the current success of these therapies, not all patients respond to immunotherapy and even those that do often experience toxicities. Thus, there is a growing need to identify predictive and prognostic biomarkers that enhance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the complex interactions between the immune system and cancer. Therefore, the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) reconvened an Immune Biomarkers Task Force to review state of the art technologies, identify current hurdlers, and make recommendations for the field. As a product of this task force, Working Group 2 (WG2), consisting of international experts from academia and industry, assembled to identify and discuss promising technologies for biomarker discovery and validation. Thus, this WG2 consensus paper will focus on the current status of emerging biomarkers for immune checkpoint blockade therapy and discuss novel technologies as well as high dimensional data analysis platforms that will be pivotal for future biomarker research. In addition, this paper will include a brief overview of the current challenges with recommendations for future biomarker discovery.
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- Jianda Yuan
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 New York Ave Box 386, New York, NY 10065 USA
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- Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way South, San Francisco, CA 94080 USA
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- Bristol-Myers Squibb, 3551 Lawrenceville Road, Princeton, NJ 08648 USA
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- Center of Experimental Therapeutics and Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research, University Hospital of Lausanne, Rue du Bugnon 21, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland ; Department of Pathology, University of Athens Medical School, "Attikon" University Hospital, 1st Rimini St, 12462 Haidari, Greece
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- Center of Experimental Therapeutics and Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research, University Hospital of Lausanne, Rue du Bugnon 21, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Epiontis GmbH, Rudower Chaussee 29, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Netherlands Cancer Institute, Postbus 90203, 1006 BE Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Italian Network for Biotherapy of Tumors (NIBIT)-Laboratory, c/o Medical Oncology and Immunotherapy, University Hospital of Siena, V.le Bracci,16, Siena, 53100 Italy
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- Stanford University Medical Center, 299 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94303 USA
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- Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Providence Cancer Center, 4805 NE Glisan Street, Portland, OR 97213 USA
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- Adaptive Technologies, Inc., 1551 Eastlake Avenue East Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98102 USA
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- AstraZeneca, One MedImmune Way, Gaithersburg, MD 20878 USA
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- Sidra Medical and Research Center, PO Box 26999, Doha, Qatar
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- University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, 5117 Centre Ave, Suite 1.27, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
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- National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850 USA
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- Innsbruck Medical University, Medizinische Klinik, Anichstrasse 35, Innsbruck, A-6020 Austria
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Immunology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, 5117 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
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- Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Providence Cancer Center, 4805 NE Glisan Street, Portland, OR 97213 USA
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Yuan J, Hegde PS, Clynes R, Foukas PG, Harari A, Kleen TO, Kvistborg P, Maccalli C, Maecker HT, Page DB, Robins H, Song W, Stack EC, Wang E, Whiteside TL, Zhao Y, Zwierzina H, Butterfield LH, Fox BA. Novel technologies and emerging biomarkers for personalized cancer immunotherapy. J Immunother Cancer 2016; 4:3. [PMID: 26788324 PMCID: PMC4717548 DOI: 10.1186/s40425-016-0107-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2015] [Accepted: 01/05/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
The culmination of over a century’s work to understand the role of the immune system in tumor control has led to the recent advances in cancer immunotherapies that have resulted in durable clinical responses in patients with a variety of malignancies. Cancer immunotherapies are rapidly changing traditional treatment paradigms and expanding the therapeutic landscape for cancer patients. However, despite the current success of these therapies, not all patients respond to immunotherapy and even those that do often experience toxicities. Thus, there is a growing need to identify predictive and prognostic biomarkers that enhance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the complex interactions between the immune system and cancer. Therefore, the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) reconvened an Immune Biomarkers Task Force to review state of the art technologies, identify current hurdlers, and make recommendations for the field. As a product of this task force, Working Group 2 (WG2), consisting of international experts from academia and industry, assembled to identify and discuss promising technologies for biomarker discovery and validation. Thus, this WG2 consensus paper will focus on the current status of emerging biomarkers for immune checkpoint blockade therapy and discuss novel technologies as well as high dimensional data analysis platforms that will be pivotal for future biomarker research. In addition, this paper will include a brief overview of the current challenges with recommendations for future biomarker discovery.
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- Jianda Yuan
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 New York Ave Box 386, New York, NY 10065 USA
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- Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way South, San Francisco, CA 94080 USA
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- Bristol-Myers Squibb, 3551 Lawrenceville Road, Princeton, NJ 08648 USA
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- Center of Experimental Therapeutics and Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research, University Hospital of Lausanne, Rue du Bugnon 21, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland ; Department of Pathology, University of Athens Medical School, "Attikon" University Hospital, 1st Rimini St, 12462 Haidari, Greece
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- Center of Experimental Therapeutics and Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research, University Hospital of Lausanne, Rue du Bugnon 21, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Epiontis GmbH, Rudower Chaussee 29, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Netherlands Cancer Institute, Postbus 90203, 1006 BE Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Italian Network for Biotherapy of Tumors (NIBIT)-Laboratory, c/o Medical Oncology and Immunotherapy, University Hospital of Siena, V.le Bracci,16, Siena, 53100 Italy
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- Stanford University Medical Center, 299 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94303 USA
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- Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Providence Cancer Center, 4805 NE Glisan Street, Portland, OR 97213 USA
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- Adaptive Technologies, Inc., 1551 Eastlake Avenue East Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98102 USA
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- AstraZeneca, One MedImmune Way, Gaithersburg, MD 20878 USA
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- Sidra Medical and Research Center, PO Box 26999, Doha, Qatar
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- University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, 5117 Centre Ave, Suite 1.27, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
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- National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850 USA
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- Innsbruck Medical University, Medizinische Klinik, Anichstrasse 35, Innsbruck, A-6020 Austria
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Immunology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, 5117 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
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- Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Providence Cancer Center, 4805 NE Glisan Street, Portland, OR 97213 USA
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McDermott DF, Sosman JA, Sznol M, Massard C, Gordon MS, Hamid O, Powderly JD, Infante JR, Fassò M, Wang YV, Zou W, Hegde PS, Fine GD, Powles T. Atezolizumab, an Anti-Programmed Death-Ligand 1 Antibody, in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: Long-Term Safety, Clinical Activity, and Immune Correlates From a Phase Ia Study. J Clin Oncol 2016; 34:833-42. [PMID: 26755520 DOI: 10.1200/jco.2015.63.7421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 420] [Impact Index Per Article: 52.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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PURPOSE The objective was to determine the safety and clinical activity of atezolizumab (MPDL3280A), a humanized programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) antibody, in renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Exploratory biomarkers were analyzed and associated with outcomes. PATIENTS AND METHODS Seventy patients with metastatic RCC, including clear cell (ccRCC; n = 63) and non-clear cell (ncc; n = 7) histologies, received atezolizumab intravenously every 3 weeks. PD-L1 expression was scored at four diagnostic levels (0/1/2/3) that were based on PD-L1 staining on tumor cells and tumor-infiltrating immune cells (IC) with the SP142 assay. Primary end points were safety and toxicity; secondary end points assessed clinical activity per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1 and immune-related response criteria. Plasma and tissue were analyzed for potential biomarkers of atezolizumab response. RESULTS Grade 3 treatment-related and immune-mediated adverse events occurred in 17% and 4% of patients, respectively, and there were no grade 4 or 5 events. Sixty-three patients with ccRCC were evaluable for overall survival (median, 28.9 months; 95% CI, 20.0 months to not reached) and progression-free survival (median, 5.6 months; 95% CI, 3.9 to 8.2 months), and 62 patients were evaluable for objective response rate (ORR; 15%; 95% CI, 7% to 26%). ORR was evaluated on the basis of PD-L1 IC expression (IC1/2/3: n = 33; 18%; 95% CI, 7% to 35%; and IC0: n = 22; 9%; 95% CI, 1% to 29%). The ORR for patients with Fuhrman grade 4 and/or sarcomatoid histology was 22% (n = 18; 95% CI, 6% to 48%). Decreases in circulating plasma markers and acute-phase proteins and an increased baseline effector T-cell-to-regulatory T-cell gene expression ratio correlated with response to atezolizumab. CONCLUSION Atezolizumab demonstrated a manageable safety profile and promising antitumor activity in patients with metastatic RCC. Correlative studies identified potential predictive and pharmacodynamic biomarkers. These results have guided ongoing studies and combinations with atezolizumab in RCC.
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- David F McDermott
- David F. McDermott, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Jeffrey A. Sosman, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Jeffrey R. Infante, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Nashville, TN; Mario Sznol, Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT; Christophe Massard, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif Cedex, France; Michael S. Gordon, Pinnacle Oncology Hematology, Scottsdale, AZ; Omid Hamid, Angeles Clinic and Research Institute, Santa Monica; Marcella Fassò, Yan V. Wang, Wei Zou, Priti S. Hedge, and Gregg D. Fine, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA; John D. Powderly, Carolina BioOncology Institute, Huntersville, NC; and Thomas Powles, Barts Cancer Institute Centre for Experimental Cancer Medicine and the Royal Free National Health Service Trust, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom.
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- David F. McDermott, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Jeffrey A. Sosman, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Jeffrey R. Infante, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Nashville, TN; Mario Sznol, Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT; Christophe Massard, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif Cedex, France; Michael S. Gordon, Pinnacle Oncology Hematology, Scottsdale, AZ; Omid Hamid, Angeles Clinic and Research Institute, Santa Monica; Marcella Fassò, Yan V. Wang, Wei Zou, Priti S. Hedge, and Gregg D. Fine, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA; John D. Powderly, Carolina BioOncology Institute, Huntersville, NC; and Thomas Powles, Barts Cancer Institute Centre for Experimental Cancer Medicine and the Royal Free National Health Service Trust, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- David F. McDermott, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Jeffrey A. Sosman, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Jeffrey R. Infante, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Nashville, TN; Mario Sznol, Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT; Christophe Massard, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif Cedex, France; Michael S. Gordon, Pinnacle Oncology Hematology, Scottsdale, AZ; Omid Hamid, Angeles Clinic and Research Institute, Santa Monica; Marcella Fassò, Yan V. Wang, Wei Zou, Priti S. Hedge, and Gregg D. Fine, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA; John D. Powderly, Carolina BioOncology Institute, Huntersville, NC; and Thomas Powles, Barts Cancer Institute Centre for Experimental Cancer Medicine and the Royal Free National Health Service Trust, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- David F. McDermott, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Jeffrey A. Sosman, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Jeffrey R. Infante, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Nashville, TN; Mario Sznol, Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT; Christophe Massard, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif Cedex, France; Michael S. Gordon, Pinnacle Oncology Hematology, Scottsdale, AZ; Omid Hamid, Angeles Clinic and Research Institute, Santa Monica; Marcella Fassò, Yan V. Wang, Wei Zou, Priti S. Hedge, and Gregg D. Fine, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA; John D. Powderly, Carolina BioOncology Institute, Huntersville, NC; and Thomas Powles, Barts Cancer Institute Centre for Experimental Cancer Medicine and the Royal Free National Health Service Trust, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- David F. McDermott, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Jeffrey A. Sosman, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Jeffrey R. Infante, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Nashville, TN; Mario Sznol, Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT; Christophe Massard, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif Cedex, France; Michael S. Gordon, Pinnacle Oncology Hematology, Scottsdale, AZ; Omid Hamid, Angeles Clinic and Research Institute, Santa Monica; Marcella Fassò, Yan V. Wang, Wei Zou, Priti S. Hedge, and Gregg D. Fine, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA; John D. Powderly, Carolina BioOncology Institute, Huntersville, NC; and Thomas Powles, Barts Cancer Institute Centre for Experimental Cancer Medicine and the Royal Free National Health Service Trust, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- David F. McDermott, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Jeffrey A. Sosman, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Jeffrey R. Infante, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Nashville, TN; Mario Sznol, Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT; Christophe Massard, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif Cedex, France; Michael S. Gordon, Pinnacle Oncology Hematology, Scottsdale, AZ; Omid Hamid, Angeles Clinic and Research Institute, Santa Monica; Marcella Fassò, Yan V. Wang, Wei Zou, Priti S. Hedge, and Gregg D. Fine, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA; John D. Powderly, Carolina BioOncology Institute, Huntersville, NC; and Thomas Powles, Barts Cancer Institute Centre for Experimental Cancer Medicine and the Royal Free National Health Service Trust, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- David F. McDermott, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Jeffrey A. Sosman, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Jeffrey R. Infante, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Nashville, TN; Mario Sznol, Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT; Christophe Massard, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif Cedex, France; Michael S. Gordon, Pinnacle Oncology Hematology, Scottsdale, AZ; Omid Hamid, Angeles Clinic and Research Institute, Santa Monica; Marcella Fassò, Yan V. Wang, Wei Zou, Priti S. Hedge, and Gregg D. Fine, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA; John D. Powderly, Carolina BioOncology Institute, Huntersville, NC; and Thomas Powles, Barts Cancer Institute Centre for Experimental Cancer Medicine and the Royal Free National Health Service Trust, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- David F. McDermott, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Jeffrey A. Sosman, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Jeffrey R. Infante, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Nashville, TN; Mario Sznol, Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT; Christophe Massard, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif Cedex, France; Michael S. Gordon, Pinnacle Oncology Hematology, Scottsdale, AZ; Omid Hamid, Angeles Clinic and Research Institute, Santa Monica; Marcella Fassò, Yan V. Wang, Wei Zou, Priti S. Hedge, and Gregg D. Fine, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA; John D. Powderly, Carolina BioOncology Institute, Huntersville, NC; and Thomas Powles, Barts Cancer Institute Centre for Experimental Cancer Medicine and the Royal Free National Health Service Trust, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- David F. McDermott, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Jeffrey A. Sosman, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Jeffrey R. Infante, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Nashville, TN; Mario Sznol, Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT; Christophe Massard, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif Cedex, France; Michael S. Gordon, Pinnacle Oncology Hematology, Scottsdale, AZ; Omid Hamid, Angeles Clinic and Research Institute, Santa Monica; Marcella Fassò, Yan V. Wang, Wei Zou, Priti S. Hedge, and Gregg D. Fine, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA; John D. Powderly, Carolina BioOncology Institute, Huntersville, NC; and Thomas Powles, Barts Cancer Institute Centre for Experimental Cancer Medicine and the Royal Free National Health Service Trust, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- David F. McDermott, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Jeffrey A. Sosman, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Jeffrey R. Infante, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Nashville, TN; Mario Sznol, Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT; Christophe Massard, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif Cedex, France; Michael S. Gordon, Pinnacle Oncology Hematology, Scottsdale, AZ; Omid Hamid, Angeles Clinic and Research Institute, Santa Monica; Marcella Fassò, Yan V. Wang, Wei Zou, Priti S. Hedge, and Gregg D. Fine, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA; John D. Powderly, Carolina BioOncology Institute, Huntersville, NC; and Thomas Powles, Barts Cancer Institute Centre for Experimental Cancer Medicine and the Royal Free National Health Service Trust, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- David F. McDermott, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Jeffrey A. Sosman, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Jeffrey R. Infante, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Nashville, TN; Mario Sznol, Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT; Christophe Massard, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif Cedex, France; Michael S. Gordon, Pinnacle Oncology Hematology, Scottsdale, AZ; Omid Hamid, Angeles Clinic and Research Institute, Santa Monica; Marcella Fassò, Yan V. Wang, Wei Zou, Priti S. Hedge, and Gregg D. Fine, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA; John D. Powderly, Carolina BioOncology Institute, Huntersville, NC; and Thomas Powles, Barts Cancer Institute Centre for Experimental Cancer Medicine and the Royal Free National Health Service Trust, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- David F. McDermott, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Jeffrey A. Sosman, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Jeffrey R. Infante, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Nashville, TN; Mario Sznol, Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT; Christophe Massard, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif Cedex, France; Michael S. Gordon, Pinnacle Oncology Hematology, Scottsdale, AZ; Omid Hamid, Angeles Clinic and Research Institute, Santa Monica; Marcella Fassò, Yan V. Wang, Wei Zou, Priti S. Hedge, and Gregg D. Fine, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA; John D. Powderly, Carolina BioOncology Institute, Huntersville, NC; and Thomas Powles, Barts Cancer Institute Centre for Experimental Cancer Medicine and the Royal Free National Health Service Trust, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- David F. McDermott, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Jeffrey A. Sosman, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Jeffrey R. Infante, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Nashville, TN; Mario Sznol, Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT; Christophe Massard, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif Cedex, France; Michael S. Gordon, Pinnacle Oncology Hematology, Scottsdale, AZ; Omid Hamid, Angeles Clinic and Research Institute, Santa Monica; Marcella Fassò, Yan V. Wang, Wei Zou, Priti S. Hedge, and Gregg D. Fine, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA; John D. Powderly, Carolina BioOncology Institute, Huntersville, NC; and Thomas Powles, Barts Cancer Institute Centre for Experimental Cancer Medicine and the Royal Free National Health Service Trust, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- David F. McDermott, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Jeffrey A. Sosman, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Jeffrey R. Infante, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Nashville, TN; Mario Sznol, Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT; Christophe Massard, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif Cedex, France; Michael S. Gordon, Pinnacle Oncology Hematology, Scottsdale, AZ; Omid Hamid, Angeles Clinic and Research Institute, Santa Monica; Marcella Fassò, Yan V. Wang, Wei Zou, Priti S. Hedge, and Gregg D. Fine, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA; John D. Powderly, Carolina BioOncology Institute, Huntersville, NC; and Thomas Powles, Barts Cancer Institute Centre for Experimental Cancer Medicine and the Royal Free National Health Service Trust, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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Gettinger SN, Kowanetz M, Koeppen H, Wistuba II, Kockx M, Kadel EE, Rizvi NA, Spira AI, Hirsch FR, Boyd Z, Denker M, Minn A, Shames DS, Sandler A, Chen DS, Hegde PS, Spigel DR. Molecular, immune and histopathological characterization of NSCLC based on PDL1 expression on tumor and immune cells and association with response to the anti-PDL1 antibody MPDL3280A. J Clin Oncol 2015. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2015.33.15_suppl.3015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- Virginia Cancer Specialists Research Institute, US Oncology Research, Fairfax, VA
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Kim JW, Bellmunt J, Powles T, Loriot Y, Vogelzang NJ, Cruz Zambrano C, Burris HA, Teng SLM, Shen X, Bruey JM, Boyd Z, Hegde PS, Petrylak DP. Clinical activity, safety, and biomarkers of MPDL3280A in metastatic urothelial bladder cancer: Additional analysis from phase IA study. J Clin Oncol 2015. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2015.33.7_suppl.297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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297 Background: Metastatic urothelial bladder cancer (UBC) is a mutationally-complex disease in which PD-L1 expression in the tumor microenvironment may inhibit immune-mediated antitumor responses. MPDL3280A is a PD-L1-targeting antibody with an engineered Fc domain that disrupts PD-L1/PD-1 and PD-L1/B7.1 signaling. Methods: MPDL3280A was studied in a phase Ia metastatic UBC expansion cohort. UBC pts received MPDL3280A 15 mg/kg IV q3w for ≤16 cycles. Efficacy-evaluable pts were dosed by January 27, 2014 (≥12 week follow-up) with a data cutoff of April 21, 2014. RECIST v1.1 was used to assess ORR. PD-L1 expression (by immune cell IHC) was centrally evaluated from archival biopsies. In-tumor gene expression and peripheral biomarker analyses were done on pts dosed by Nov 20, 2013, with a cutoff of January 1, 2014. Results: In the UBC cohort, 33 IHC 2/3 pts, 36 IHC 0/1 pts, and 1 PD-L1 pt with unknown IHC were efficacy-evaluable. Median pt age was 65 y (36-89), and 73% were male. Visceral and liver metastases were present in 74% and 33% of pts, respectively. 73% had ≥2 prior therapies, and 91% had prior platinum. The unconfirmed ORR was 52% (95% CI, 34-69; 3 CRs, 14 PRs) in IHC 2/3 pts and 14% (95% CI, 6-28; 5 PRs) in IHC 0/1 pts. The median DOR was not yet reached (0.1+ to 42+ w in IHC 2/3 pts, n=17; 6+ to 19+ w in IHC 0/1 pts, n=5). 19/22 responding pts had ongoing responses. Median PFS was 24 w in IHC 2/3 pts (5 to 50+ w, n=33) and 8 w in IHC 0/1 pts (0.1+ to 30+ w, n=36). Of 74 pts evaluable for safety, all grade treatment-related AEs occurred in 65%, most often fatigue, decreased appetite and nausea. 5% had treatment-related G3-4 AEs. No treatment-related deaths were seen. The median follow-up was 5.4 mos (1+ to 12 mos, n=70). IHC 2/3 tumors had low expression of a baseline myeloid marker gene signature, including IL8 and IL1B, which was associated with MPLD3280A response. Additionally, circulating inflammatory markers (e.g., CRP) and tumor burden markers (e.g., HCG) decreased in responders by cycle 2. Updated data will be presented. Conclusions: MPDL3280A was well tolerated in UBC pts. Rapid and durable responses were seen and correlated with PD-L1 IHC status on immune cells. Biomarkers suggest a potential role for myeloid biology in primary resistance to MPDL3280A. Clinical trial information: NCT01375842.
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- Bladder Cancer Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Barts Cancer Institute, Barts Health and the Royal Free NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- University of Nevada School of Medicine and US Oncology/Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
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- Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Tennessee Oncology, PLLC, Nashville, TN
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Powles T, Eder JP, Fine GD, Braiteh FS, Loriot Y, Cruz C, Bellmunt J, Burris HA, Petrylak DP, Teng SL, Shen X, Boyd Z, Hegde PS, Chen DS, Vogelzang NJ. MPDL3280A (anti-PD-L1) treatment leads to clinical activity in metastatic bladder cancer. Nature 2015; 515:558-62. [PMID: 25428503 DOI: 10.1038/nature13904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1823] [Impact Index Per Article: 202.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2014] [Accepted: 09/30/2014] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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There have been no major advances for the treatment of metastatic urothelial bladder cancer (UBC) in the last 30 years. Chemotherapy is still the standard of care. Patient outcomes, especially for those in whom chemotherapy is not effective or is poorly tolerated, remain poor. One hallmark of UBC is the presence of high rates of somatic mutations. These alterations may enhance the ability of the host immune system to recognize tumour cells as foreign owing to an increased number of antigens. However, these cancers may also elude immune surveillance and eradication through the expression of programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1; also called CD274 or B7-H1) in the tumour microenvironment. Therefore, we examined the anti-PD-L1 antibody MPDL3280A, a systemic cancer immunotherapy, for the treatment of metastatic UBC. MPDL3280A is a high-affinity engineered human anti-PD-L1 monoclonal immunoglobulin-G1 antibody that inhibits the interaction of PD-L1 with PD-1 (PDCD1) and B7.1 (CD80). Because PD-L1 is expressed on activated T cells, MPDL3280A was engineered with a modification in the Fc domain that eliminates antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity at clinically relevant doses to prevent the depletion of T cells expressing PD-L1. Here we show that MPDL3280A has noteworthy activity in metastatic UBC. Responses were often rapid, with many occurring at the time of the first response assessment (6 weeks) and nearly all were ongoing at the data cutoff. This phase I expansion study, with an adaptive design that allowed for biomarker-positive enriched cohorts, demonstrated that tumours expressing PD-L1-positive tumour-infiltrating immune cells had particularly high response rates. Moreover, owing to the favourable toxicity profile, including a lack of renal toxicity, patients with UBC, who are often older and have a higher incidence of renal impairment, may be better able to tolerate MPDL3280A versus chemotherapy. These results suggest that MPDL3280A may have an important role in treating UBC-the drug received breakthrough designation status by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in June 2014.
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- Thomas Powles
- Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, Barts Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, London EC1M 6BQ, UK
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- Yale Cancer Center, 333 Cedar Street, WWW211, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Genentech, Inc. 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada, 3730 S. Eastern Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada 89169, USA
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- Gustave Roussy, 114 Rue Édouard Vaillant, 94805 Villejuif, France
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- Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) and Vall d'Hebron University Hospital. Passeig Vall d'Hebron, 119-129, 08035, Barcelona, Spain
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- Bladder Cancer Center, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
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- Sarah Cannon Research Institute, 3322 West End Avenue, Suite 900, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA
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- Yale Cancer Center, 333 Cedar Street, WWW211, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Genentech, Inc. 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Genentech, Inc. 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Genentech, Inc. 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Genentech, Inc. 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- Genentech, Inc. 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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- University of Nevada School of Medicine and US Oncology/Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada, 3730 S. Eastern Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada 89169, USA
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Huseni M, Totpal K, Du C, Dalpozzo K, Zhu J, Rishipathak D, McNamara E, Jonshtone B, Hegde PS, Rhee I, Damico-Beyer L, Kim J. Anti-tumor efficacy and biomarker evaluation of agonistic anti-OX40 antibodies in preclinical models. J Immunother Cancer 2014. [PMCID: PMC4288389 DOI: 10.1186/2051-1426-2-s3-p105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Huseni M, Totpal K, Du C, Dalpozzo K, Zhu J, Rishipathak D, McNamara E, Jonshtone B, Hegde PS, Rhee I, Damico-Beyer L, Kim J. Anti-tumor efficacy and biomarker evaluation of agonistic anti-OX40 antibodies in preclinical models. J Immunother Cancer 2014. [PMCID: PMC4292550 DOI: 10.1186/2051-1426-2-s3-p253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Kowanetz M, Rabe C, Xiao Y, Wu QJ, Koeppen H, Leddy C, Patel RD, Powderly J, Kohrt H, Gettinger S, Soria JC, Herbst RS, Desai R, Denker M, Ruppel J, Boe M, Nakamura R, Fu L, Sumiyoshi T, Mokatrin A, Shen X, Fine G, Chen DS, Hegde PS. Circulating and tumor-based biomarkers predict clinical activity in cancer patients treated with the engineered anti-PD-L1 antibody MPDL3280A. J Immunother Cancer 2014. [PMCID: PMC4288453 DOI: 10.1186/2051-1426-2-s3-p136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Ziai J, Huseni M, Foreman O, Eastham-Anderson J, Xiao Y, Chu F, Kowanetz M, Hegde PS, Kim J. A CD4/Foxp3/OX40 triple immunofluorescence assay determines association between T cell immune subsets and outcome in colorectal cancer. J Immunother Cancer 2014. [PMCID: PMC4288447 DOI: 10.1186/2051-1426-2-s3-p133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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