NRG1 fusion-positive lung cancers: Clinicopathologic profile and treatment outcomes from a global multicenter registry.

Authors

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Michaël Duruisseaux

Hospices Civils de Lyon Cancer Institute, Chest Department, Hôpital Louis Pradel, Bron, France

Michaël Duruisseaux , Stephen V. Liu , Ji-Youn Han , Valerie Gounant , Jin-Yuan Shih , Alison M. Schram , Alexa Betzig Schrock , Siraj Mahamed Ali , Fanny Magne , Isabelle Monnet , Denis Moro-Sibilot , Torsten-Gerriet Blum , Tejas Patil , Robert Charles Doebele , D. Ross Camidge , Lucia Anna Muscarella , Jacques Cadranel , Alexander E. Drilon

Organizations

Hospices Civils de Lyon Cancer Institute, Chest Department, Hôpital Louis Pradel, Bron, France, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, Center for Lung Cancer, Research Institute and Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang, South Korea, Service d'Oncologie thoracique Hôpital Bichat, APHP, Paris, France, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, MA, Hôpital de Villefranche-Sur-Saône, Villefrahce-Sur-Saône, France, Service de pneumologie, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Creteil, Creteil, France, Service Hospitalier Universitaire Pneumologie Physiologie Pôle Thorax et Vaisseaux Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France, HELIOS Kliniken Emil von Behring Center of Lung Disease, Berlin, Germany, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, Laboratory of Oncology, Fondazione IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, Hôpital Tenon, AP-HP and Faculté de Médecine Pierre et Marie Curie, Université Paris VI, Paris, France

Research Funding

Other

Background: NRG1 fusions are potentially actionable driver events enriched in NSCLCs, particularly invasive mucinous adenocarcinomas (IMAs). These fusions activate HER3/HER2, supporting the therapeutic use of HER3 and/or HER2 inhibitors, but optimal treatment strategies remain unclear. Methods: A global, multicenter network of thoracic oncologists (6 countries, 13 institutions) identified patients with pathologically confirmed NRG1 fusion-positive NSCLCs. Anonymized clinical/pathologic features and clinical outcomes were collected retrospectively. Best response to systemic therapy was determined (RECIST v1.1). PFS was calculated (Kaplan-Meier). Results: 80 NRG1 fusion-positive NSCLCs were identified. RNA-based sequencing identified 66% (n = 53/80), DNA-based sequencing 18% (n = 14/80), and FISH 16% (n = 13/80) of cases. The most common upstream partners were CD74 (45%), SLC3A2 (31%), and SDC (9%). Most patients were female (64%) and never smokers (58%). Histology was adenocarcinoma in 95% (IMA, 91%), squamous 4%, large cell neuroendocrine 1%. At diagnosis, most patients had non-metastatic disease (stage: I 33%, II 27%, III 18%, IV 22%). The lifetime frequency of brain metastases was 15%. 12 patients received the HER2 inhibitor afatinib for stage IV disease. PD was the best response in 55% (n = 6/11) of evaluable patients with 18% PR (n = 2/11) and SD 18% (n = 2/11); median PFS was 3.5 months (range 0.6-16.5 months). 19 patients received platinum-based chemotherapy; most patients had SD as their best response (47%, n = 8); PD 41% (n = 7), PR 12% (n = 2). PD-L1 was negative in the majority of tumors (79%, n = 26/33) and none had high PD-L1 expression (range 0-20%). No responses to single-agent anti-PD-1/L1 therapy were observed (PD n = 5/6, SD n = 1/6: nivolumab/atezolizumab). No responses to chemoimmunotherapy (carboplatin, pemetrexed, pembrolizumab) were observed (SD n = 4/5, PD n = 1/5). Conclusions: RNA-based testing is an important component of NRG1 fusion detection. Novel targeted therapeutic approaches are needed as overall outcomes with afatinib are poor. NRG1 fusion-positive NSCLCs do not highly express PD-L1 and outcomes with immunotherapy ± chemotherapy are poor.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2019 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 37, 2019 (suppl; abstr 9081)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2019.37.15_suppl.9081

Abstract #

9081

Poster Bd #

404

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