Influence of WNT and DNA damage response pathway alterations on outcomes in patients with unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer.

Authors

Sebastian Mondaca

Sebastian Mondaca

Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Sebastian Mondaca , Henry S Walch , Subhiksha Nandakumar , Walid K. Chatila , Jaclyn Frances Hechtman , Andrea Cercek , Luis A. Diaz Jr., Francisco Sanchez-Vega , Nancy E. Kemeny , Neil Howard Segal , Zsofia Kinga Stadler , Anna M. Varghese , Efsevia Vakiani , Marc Ladanyi , Michael F. Berger , David B. Solit , Jinru Shia , Leonard B. Saltz , Nikolaus D Schultz , Rona Yaeger

Organizations

Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, NY, Center for Molecular Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, Thoracic Oncology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Research Funding

Other

Background: We assembled a large series of consecutive patients with unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) to identify genomic biomarkers of response and survival. Methods: Patients with unresectable mCRC treated at Memorial Sloan Kettering with genomic tumor profiling between 2014 and 2017 were included. Patients who underwent upfront metastasectomy or received neoadjuvant/conversion chemotherapy were excluded. Clinical information was retrieved from electronic medical records, and we evaluated associations between genomic profiles with progression free survival (PFS) on first-line chemotherapy and overall survival (OS). Categorical data were analyzed by Fisher exact test and time-to-event data were analyzed by Cox proportional hazards models. Results: Of 1453 mCRCs profiled in this period, 471 patients met the study criteria. Median age was 59 years (range, 18 to 95), and 73% of patients were stage IV at diagnosis. Most tumors (91%) were microsatellite stable (MSS). The most frequent first-line regimen was FOLFOX +/- bevacizumab (66%). Among MSS patients treated with oxaliplatin-containing regimens (n = 305), 7% harbored alterations in genes associated with DNA damage response (DDR) (BRCA1, BRCA2, ATM, PALB2). DDR gene alterations were not associated with PFS (P = 0.94) nor were different quartiles of large-state transitions (P = 0.54). Genomic alterations that significantly varied by duration of response included BRAF (16%, 10%, and 5% for PFS < 6 months, 6-12 months, and > 12 months, respectively) and APC (62%, 74%, and 80% for PFS < 6 months, 6-12 months, and > 12 months, respectively). APC mutation, single or dual, was associated with significantly longer PFS (HR 0.67) and OS (HR 0.59) in multivariate analysis versus no WNT pathway alteration or alterations in other WNT pathway genes (RNF43, AXIN2, CTNNB1). Conclusions: In unresectable mCRC patients, mutations in APC were associated with better outcomes; absence of an APC alteration or the occurrence of other WNT pathway alterations was associated with shorter survival. Somatic alterations in DDR genes were not associated with outcomes in mCRC patients receiving oxaliplatin-containing regimen.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2019 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Gastrointestinal (Colorectal) Cancer

Track

Gastrointestinal Cancer—Colorectal and Anal

Sub Track

Epidemiology/Outcomes

Citation

J Clin Oncol 37, 2019 (suppl; abstr 3585)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2019.37.15_suppl.3585

Abstract #

3585

Poster Bd #

77

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