Clinical and genomic characterisation of mismatch repair deficient pancreatic adenocarcinoma

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ..

OBJECTIVE: To describe the clinical, pathological and genomic characteristics of pancreatic cancer with DNA mismatch repair deficiency (MMRD) and proficiency (MMRP).

DESIGN: We identified patients with MMRD and MMRP pancreatic cancer in a clinical cohort (N=1213, 519 with genetic testing, 53 with immunohistochemistry (IHC)) and a genomic cohort (N=288 with whole-genome sequencing (WGS)).

RESULTS: 12 out of 1213 (1.0%) in the clinical cohort were MMRD by IHC or WGS. Of the 14 patients with Lynch syndrome, 3 (21.4%) had an MMRP pancreatic cancer by IHC, and 4 (28.6%) were excluded because tissue was unavailable for testing. MMRD cancers had longer overall survival after surgery (weighted HR after coarsened exact matching 0.11, 95% CI 0.02 to 0.78, p=0.001). One patient with an unresectable MMRD cancer has an ongoing partial response 3 years after starting treatment with PD-L1/CTLA-4 inhibition. This tumour showed none of the classical histopathological features of MMRD. 9 out of 288 (3.1%) tumours with WGS were MMRD. Despite markedly higher tumour mutational burden and neoantigen loads, MMRD cancers were significantly less likely to have mutations in usual pancreatic cancer driver genes like KRAS and SMAD4, but more likely to have mutations in genes that drive cancers with microsatellite instability like ACV2RA and JAK1. MMRD tumours were significantly more likely to have a basal-like transcriptional programme and elevated transcriptional markers of immunogenicity.

CONCLUSIONS: MMRD pancreatic cancers have distinct clinical, pathological and genomic profiles. Patients with MMRD pancreatic cancer should be considered for basket trials targeting enhanced immunogenicity or the unique genomic drivers in these malignancies.

Errataetall:

CommentIn: Gut. 2022 Jan;71(1):219-221. - PMID 33731370

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:70

Enthalten in:

Gut - 70(2021), 10 vom: 15. Okt., Seite 1894-1903

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Grant, Robert C [VerfasserIn]
Denroche, Robert [VerfasserIn]
Jang, Gun Ho [VerfasserIn]
Nowak, Klaudia M [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Amy [VerfasserIn]
Borgida, Ayelet [VerfasserIn]
Holter, Spring [VerfasserIn]
Topham, James T [VerfasserIn]
Wilson, Julie [VerfasserIn]
Dodd, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Jang, Raymond [VerfasserIn]
Prince, Rebecca [VerfasserIn]
Karasinska, Joanna M [VerfasserIn]
Schaeffer, David F [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yifan [VerfasserIn]
Zogopoulos, George [VerfasserIn]
Berry, Scott [VerfasserIn]
Simeone, Diane [VerfasserIn]
Renouf, Daniel J [VerfasserIn]
Notta, Faiyaz [VerfasserIn]
O'Kane, Grainne [VerfasserIn]
Knox, Jennifer [VerfasserIn]
Fischer, Sandra [VerfasserIn]
Gallinger, Steven [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

Cancer genetics
Cancer immunobiology
Cancer syndromes
Journal Article
Molecular genetics
Pancreatic cancer
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 07.01.2022

Date Revised 07.01.2022

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: Gut. 2022 Jan;71(1):219-221. - PMID 33731370

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1136/gutjnl-2020-320730

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM315058463