Clinical and Immunologic Features of Germline Pathogenic Variant-Positive Patients with Melanoma

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PURPOSE: Malignant melanoma represents the most lethal skin cancer with germline predispositions thought to comprise 10% to 15% of all melanoma cases. No studies to date examine the immunologic features that may differentiate survival differences between germline pathogenic variant (gPV)-positive patients with melanoma from gPV-negative patients with melanoma.

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: Adult patients with melanoma and clinical characteristics suggesting hereditary predisposition to cancer were prospectively recruited to undergo germline testing and flow cytometric analysis of peripheral immune suppressor cells.

RESULTS: In this cohort, gPV-positive patients (n = 72) had a significantly improved melanoma-specific survival (MSS) compared with gPV-negative patients (n = 411; HRadj, 0.32; 95% CI, 0.13-0.82; P = 0.01). These survival improvements among gPV-positive patients were most apparent among cutaneous melanoma subtypes (HRadj, 0.12; 95% CI, 0.016-0.86; P = 0.03) and numerically improved in later-stage (IIB-IV) patients (HRadj, 0.34; 95% CI, 0.10-1.11; P = 0.06). Further, gPV-positive patients had a significantly lower level of total circulating PMN-MDSC compared with gPV-negative patients (P = 0.01), which was most apparent in those diagnosed with later stages (IIB-IV) of melanoma (P = 0.009). Finally, a significant upregulation of inflammatory transcriptome signatures in later-stage gPV-positive patients (n = 21) was observed in comparison with gPV-negative patients (n = 173) in the cutaneous melanoma cohort (SKCM) of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA).

CONCLUSIONS: gPV-positive patients with melanoma exhibit improved MSS in addition to reduced peripheral PMN-MDSC and an enhanced inflammatory microenvironment.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:30

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Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 30(2024), 3 vom: 01. Feb., Seite 564-574

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Shen, Alan [VerfasserIn]
Arbesman, Michelle [VerfasserIn]
Lodha, Roshan [VerfasserIn]
Rayman, Patricia [VerfasserIn]
Bungo, Brandon [VerfasserIn]
Ni, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Chan, Timothy [VerfasserIn]
Gastman, Brian [VerfasserIn]
Ko, Jennifer [VerfasserIn]
Diaz-Montero, C Marcela [VerfasserIn]
Arbesman, Joshua [VerfasserIn]
Funchain, Pauline [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 02.02.2024

Date Revised 14.03.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-23-1964

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NLM365234923