Serial ctDNA tracking reveals clonal evolution dynamics in advanced urothelial carcinoma (UC).

Authors

Dario Villamar

Dario Martin Villamar

New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY

Dario Martin Villamar , Kristin Sedgwick Price , Rebecca Nagy , Scott T. Tagawa , Ana M. Molina , David M. Nanus , Petros Grivas , Guru Sonpavde , Nicholas J. Vogelzang , Bishoy Morris Faltas

Organizations

New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, Guardant Health, Inc., Redwood City, CA, Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, New York, NY, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Department of Genitourinary Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY

Research Funding

Other

Background: UC is characterized by extensive genomic heterogeneity. Access to genomic DNA from all metastatic lesions is infeasible. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) may recapitulate heterogeneity and offer an opportunity for continuous tracking of tumor evolution. Methods: We analyzed a cohort of advanced UC patients with serial (2 time points) ctDNA NGS using Guardant360. Restaging scans were examined to determine the relationship between ctDNA dynamics and radiologic progression. We performed whole exome sequencing (WES) of a subset of the corresponding tumors to define patterns of genomic heterogeneity. Results: NGS was performed on 214 individual ctDNA samples from 78 advanced UC patients (61 M, 17 F). A minimum of 2 serial ctDNA tests per patient (range 2-8) were collected over an average 21.5 (2-108) weeks between samples. Molecular alterations (MAs) were identified in 188 (88%) of samples with a mean of 4.3 alterations (1-31) per sample. 184 (85%) samples harbored SNVs, 30 (14%) harbored indels and 36 CNVs (17%). Most commonly mutated genes were TP53 (18%), ARID1A, NF1 (4.5% each), EGFR (3.5%), FGFR3 (3.4%), ERBB2 and PIK3CA (3.4% each). The most frequently amplified genes were ERRB2 and CCNE1. Serial analysis of maximum variant allele frequency (mVAF) revealed a mean 7.5-fold change between 1st and 2nd and a 6-fold change between 2nd and 3rd ctDNA samples. Interestingly, the mean rate of mVAF fold change/week was stable between serial testing time points (0.35, 0.32 p = 0.7). We observed that patients with higher initial mVAF ( > 3%) experienced a significantly larger mean fold decrease compared to patients with initial mVAF below this threshold (p = 0.008). In patients with available restaging scans timed with ctDNA testing, all patients with radiologic progression exhibited increasing mVAF (mean: 8-fold). Interestingly, ctDNA identified several clinically-significant somatic MAs not present on matching tumor WES including PIK3CA (T727R, M1043I), TP53 (Q331*, P190L), RB1 (R556*, Q257*), APC (D2527H), and BRCA2 (P2804S).WES is ongoing in more patients. Conclusions: ctDNA sequencing enables dynamic monitoring of therapy-driven clonal evolution patterns of advanced UC.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2019 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Poster Session B: Prostate Cancer; Urothelial Carcinoma; Penile, Urethral, Testicular, and Adrenal Cancers

Track

Urothelial Carcinoma,Prostate Cancer,Penile, Urethral, Testicular, and Adrenal Cancers

Sub Track

Urothelial Carcinoma

Citation

J Clin Oncol 37, 2019 (suppl 7S; abstr 401)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2019.37.7_suppl.401

Abstract #

401

Poster Bd #

G14

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