Association of EGFR and HER-2 exon 20 mutations with distinct patterns of response to immune checkpoint blockade in non-small cell lung cancer.

Authors

Marcelo Negrao

Marcelo Vailati Negrao

Department of Thoracic / Head and Neck Medical Oncology - The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Marcelo Vailati Negrao , Alexandre Reuben , Jacqulyne Ponville Robichaux , Xiuning Le , Monique B. Nilsson , Chang-jiun Wu , Jianhua Zhang , Lara C.A. Landry , Emily Roarty , Waree Rinsurongkawong , Stephen Swisher , George R. Simon , Andrew Futreal , Bonnie S. Glisson , Jianjun Zhang , John Heymach

Organizations

Department of Thoracic / Head and Neck Medical Oncology - The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Research Funding

Other

Background: Immune checkpoint blockade has led to unprecedented durable clinical benefit in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but response rates are low for patients with targetable driver mutations. EGFR and HER-2 exon 20 mutations account for ~4% of NSCLC, but outcomes for these patients when treated with immune checkpoint blockade have not been previously reported. Methods: We queried GEMINI, a MD Anderson Lung Cancer Moon Shot funded database for prospective collection of clinical information for patients with NSCLC, for patients with driver mutations in EGFR exon 19, 20, 21 and HER-2 exon 20 and treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors. We assessed overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS) and overall response rate (ORR). Results: From 2014 to 2018, 90 patients with classic EGFR mutations (exon 19 del + exon 21 L858R, n = 38), EGFR exon 20 mutations (n = 36; no T790M included) and HER-2 exon 20 mutations (n = 16) had been treated with checkpoint inhibitors. Compared to classic EGFR mutants, EGFR exon 20 mutants demonstrated a higher disease control rate at 6 and 12 months as well as higher ORR. Also, EGFR exon 20 mutants demonstrated significantly higher PFS (HR 0.45, p = 0.002) and OS (HR 0.2, p < 0.001) (Table). These differences remained significant in multivariate analysis after adjusting for age, smoking status, radiation prior to treatment initiation and treatment with concurrent agents such as chemotherapy and/or radiation. HER-2 exon 20 mutants had similar ORR and PFS compared to classic EGFR mutants (HR 1.1, p = 0.8) (Table). Conclusions: EGFR exon 20 mutations are associated with superior outcome from immune checkpoint inhibitors compared to classic EGFR and HER-2 exon 20 mutations. Further studies on PD-L1 status and tumor mutation burden in these molecularly-defined groups are ongoing to address potential underlying mechanisms associated with these findings.

EGFR exon 20
N = 36
Classic EGFR
N = 38
HER-2 exon 20
N = 16
Disease control – N (%)
6 months13 (36)6 (16)0 (0)
12 months4 (11)0 (0)0 (0)
Response rate – N (%)
CR1 (3)0 (0)0 (0)
PR8 (22)0 (0)1 (6)
SD9 (25)6 (16)2 (13)
PD15 (42)32 (84)13 (81)
NA3 (8)0 (0)0 (0)
Survival – median
PFS2.91.91.8
OSNR11.517.1

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2018 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Lung Cancer—Non-Small Cell Metastatic

Track

Lung Cancer

Sub Track

Metastatic Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

Citation

J Clin Oncol 36, 2018 (suppl; abstr 9052)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2018.36.15_suppl.9052

Abstract #

9052

Poster Bd #

375

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