Serial Tumor Molecular Profiling of Newly Diagnosed HER2-Negative Breast Cancers During Chemotherapy in Combination with Angiogenesis Inhibitors

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BACKGROUND: Breast cancers are heterogeneous with variable clinical courses and treatment responses.

OBJECTIVE: We sought to evaluate dynamic changes in the molecular landscape of HER2-negative tumors treated with chemotherapy and anti-angiogenic agents.

PATIENTS AND METHODS: Newly diagnosed HER2-negative breast cancer patients received low-dose sunitinib or bevacizumab prior to four 2-weekly cycles of dose-dense doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide. Tumor biopsies were obtained at baseline, after 2 weeks and after 8 weeks of chemotherapy. Next-generation sequencing was performed to assess for single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and copy number alterations (CNAs) of 440 cancer-related genes (ACTOnco®). Observed genomic changes were correlated with the Miller-Payne histological response to treatment.

RESULTS: Thirty-four patients received sunitinib and 18 received bevacizumab. In total, 77% were hormone receptor positive (HER2-/HR+) and 23% were triple negative breast cancers (TNBC). New therapy-induced mutations were infrequent, occurring only in 13%, and appeared early after a single cycle of treatment. Seventy-two percent developed changes in the variant allele frequency (VAF) of pathogenic SNVs; the majority (51%) of these changes occurred early at 2 weeks and were sustained for 8 weeks. Changes in VAF of SNVs were most commonly seen in the PI3K/mTOR/AKT pathway; 13% developed changes in pathogenic mutations, which potentially confer sensitivity to PIK3CA inhibitors. Tumors with poor Miller-Payne response to treatment were less likely to experience changes in VAF of SNVs compared with those with good response (50% [7/14] vs 15% [4/24] had no changes observed at any timepoint, p = 0.029).

CONCLUSIONS: Serial molecular profiling identifies early therapy-induced genomic alterations, which may guide future selection of targeted therapies in breast cancer patients who progress after standard chemotherapy.

CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02790580 (first posted June 6, 2016).

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

Enthalten in:

Targeted oncology - 17(2022), 3 vom: 14. Mai, Seite 355-368

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Choo, Joan R E [VerfasserIn]
Jan, Yi-Hua [VerfasserIn]
Ow, Samuel G W [VerfasserIn]
Wong, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Matilda Xinwei [VerfasserIn]
Ngoi, Natalie [VerfasserIn]
Yadav, Kritika [VerfasserIn]
Lim, Joline S J [VerfasserIn]
Lim, Siew Eng [VerfasserIn]
Chan, Ching Wan [VerfasserIn]
Hartman, Mikael [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Siau Wei [VerfasserIn]
Goh, Boon Cher [VerfasserIn]
Tan, Hon Lyn [VerfasserIn]
Chong, Wan Qin [VerfasserIn]
Yvonne, Ang Li En [VerfasserIn]
Chan, Gloria H J [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Shu-Jen [VerfasserIn]
Tan, Kien Thiam [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Soo Chin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

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Angiogenesis Inhibitors
Bevacizumab
EC 2.7.10.1
Journal Article
Receptor, ErbB-2
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Sunitinib
V99T50803M

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 24.06.2022

Date Revised 18.07.2022

published: Print-Electronic

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02790580

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s11523-022-00886-x

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM342213911