Tumor mutational burden (TMB) and PD-L1 expression as predictors of response to immunotherapy (IO) in NSCLC.

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Emily Castellanos

Flatiron Health, New York, NY

Emily Castellanos , Jeremy Snider , Siraj Mahamed Ali , Daniel Backenroth , Lee A. Albacker , Karthikeyan Murugesan , Gerald Li , Garrett M. Frampton , Brian Michael Alexander , Kenneth Robert Carson

Organizations

Flatiron Health, New York, NY, Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, MA

Research Funding

Other

Background: PD-L1 expression and TMB, as a proxy for neoantigen burden, have been correlated with response to IO in advanced NSCLC (aNSCLC) clinical trials, but their combined utility is unclear. We assessed TMB and PD-L1 as predictors of response in aNSCLC patients (pts) after IO monotherapy in a real-world setting. Methods: Pts had a diagnosis of aNSCLC, comprehensive genomic profiling of 186-315 genes/1.1 megabase (Mb), PD-L1 testing of pre-IO specimens, and were treated in the Flatiron Health network (1/2011 - 6/2018). Clinical characteristics and real-world tumor response (rwTR) were obtained via technology-enabled abstraction of clinician notes and radiology/pathology reports, and linked to genomic data in the Flatiron Health-Foundation Medicine Clinico-Genomic Database. A general additive model examined the predictive value of TMB (as continuous measure) and PD-L1 level on rwTR. A reduced PD-L1-only model was compared to the full model using Akaike Information Criterion (AIC). rwTR predictions at representative TMB and PD-L1 levels were calculated. Results: Of 426 pts, PD-L1 expression was high (≥50%) in 140, low (1-49%) in 123, and negative (<1%) in 163. Median TMB was 9.6 mut/Mb (IQR 4.4 - 14.8) overall, 11.3 in responders and 8.7 in non-responders. TMB did not correlate with PD-L1 level (Kruskal-Wallis p=0.29). The TMB + PD-L1 model had superior prediction of rwTR than the PD-L1 model, as assessed by lower AIC score. In the combined model, higher TMB and PD-L1 levels were each associated with higher rwTR likelihood (Table). Predicted rwTR probability, % (95% CI), by TMB and PD-L1 in line 1. Conclusions: TMB and PD-L1 expression are independent markers that, when combined, have increased predictive power for response to IO. High TMB + low/neg PD-L1 behaved similarly to low TMB + high PD-L1, and high TMB + high PD-L1 predicted the highest rwTR. Investigation of these biomarkers as complementary predictors of progression and overall survival is ongoing.

PD-L1 levelNegativeLowHigh
TMB (mut/Mb)
121 (11 - 38)13 (4 - 39)43 (29 - 59)
525 (15 - 39)22 (10 - 42)47 (35 - 60)
1030 (19 - 44)39 (24 - 56)52 (41 - 62)
1536 (23 - 51)53 (36 - 70)56 (44 - 67)
2041 (25 - 59)58 (38 - 77)60 (46 - 73)
3051 (28 - 73)51 (21 - 81)69 (46 - 85)

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2019 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Developmental Immunotherapy and Tumor Immunobiology

Track

Developmental Therapeutics—Immunotherapy

Sub Track

Tissue-Based Biomarkers

Citation

J Clin Oncol 37, 2019 (suppl; abstr 2630)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2019.37.15_suppl.2630

Abstract #

2630

Poster Bd #

274

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