Comprehensive genomic sequencing (CGS) of 90 patient samples of anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC).

Authors

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Saad A. Khan

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

Saad A. Khan , Bo Ci , David E. Gerber , David G McFadden , Muhammad Shaalan Beg , Yang Xie , Pamela Kurian , Maria E. Cabanillas , Naifa Lamki Busaidy , Steven I. Sherman , Andreas Heilmann , Jeffrey S. Ross , Mark Bailey , Barbara Burtness , Siraj Mahamed Ali

Organizations

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX, Division of Hematology/Oncology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, Foundation Medicine, Cambridge, TX, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, MA, Yale University-Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT

Research Funding

Other

Background: ATC is the most aggressive type of thyroid cancer with a median survival of 5 months from diagnosis. ATC patients with genomic alterations (GA) in TSC2, ALK, BRAF show occasional, limited benefit with targeted therapies. Methods: 90 ATC were studied by CGP to define the frequency of GA and opportunities for targeted therapy approaches in this devastating disease. DNA was extracted from 40 microns of FFPE sections, and CGP was performed on hybridization-captured, adaptor ligation based libraries to a mean coverage depth of 579X for up to 315 cancer-related genes plus 37 introns from 14 genes frequently rearranged in cancer. GA included base substitutions, indels, amplifications, copy number alterations and fusions/rearrangements. R software used for all statistical analyses. Fisher’s exact test used for mutation frequency comparisons among age groups. Results: Median patient age was 65 (range 33-86), 50 patients were male. There was a mean of 4.2 Known Likely Variant (KLV) genomic alterations per case, range 1-11. Adding Variants of Undetermined Significance (VUS) mean was 12.9, range 5-27. The most common KLV-GA were p53 (66%), BRAF (34%), TERT (32%), CDKN2A (32%), NRAS (26%), CDKN2B (20%), NF2 (14.4%), PTEN (13.3%), PIK3CA (12.2%). There were 2 EGFR; 5 JAK2 and 29 GAin the promoter region of TERT. BRAF V600E and NRAS/HRAS alteration were entirely mutually exclusive, and one case demonstrated both BRAF V600E and KRAS. Co-occuring mutations were CDKN2A with p53 (p=0.04). Some GA were more frequent in patients greater than ≥70 yrs of age such as BRAF, CDKN2A, PIK3CA, JAK2; while others were more common in ≤50 yrs patients like PTEN, NRAS. VUS of possible interest were MLL2 (n=15), ARID1A (11), TSC2 (5), ALK(2). Conclusions: A number of identified alterations in ATC patients may be amenable to molecularly targeted therapies, guiding future clinical trial development. Further assessment will be performed to the relationship of GA in ATC with patient demographics and disease evolution from differentiated thyroid carcinoma.

SELECT KLV-GA (%)≤50 yrs n=15>50 to ≤70 yrs n=49>70 yrs n=25
p5366.767.360
BRAF2034.744
CDKN2A13.332.744
TERT26.732.736
CDKN2B020.432
NRAS33.328.616
PIK3CA014.316
RET6.728
PTEN2016.34

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2016 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Discussion Session

Session Title

Head and Neck Cancer

Track

Head and Neck Cancer

Sub Track

Other Head and Neck Cancer (Salivary, Thyroid)

Citation

J Clin Oncol 34, 2016 (suppl; abstr 6014)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2016.34.15_suppl.6014

Abstract #

6014

Poster Bd #

336

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