Impact of rapid multigene assays with short turnaround time (TAT) on the development of precision medicine for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Authors

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Shingo Matsumoto

National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Japan

Shingo Matsumoto , Takaya Ikeda , Kiyotaka Yoh , Akira Sugimoto , Terufumi Kato , Kei Kunimasa , Atsushi Nakamura , Ichiro Nakachi , Shoichi Kuyama , Jun Sakakibara-Konishi , Haruko Daga , Eiji Iwama , Kageaki Taima , Naoki Furuya , Kaname Nosaki , Hiroki Izumi , Yoshitaka Zenke , Koichi Goto

Organizations

National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Japan, Department of Thoracic Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa-Shi, Chiba, Japan, Department of Thoracic Oncology, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, Japan, Department of Thoracic Oncology, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Sendai Kousei Hospital, Sendai, Japan, Pulmonary Division, Internal Medicine, Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital, Utsunomiya, Japan, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Iwakuni Clinical Center, Iwakuni, Japan, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan, Department of Medical Oncology, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka, Japan, Research Institute for Diseases of the Chest, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan

Research Funding

Other Government Agency
AMED (Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development), Pharmaceutical/Biotech Company

Background: A variety of oncogene drivers have been identified in NSCLC and molecularly-stratified precision medicine has led to improved survival in advanced NSCLC. Next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based testing is utilized to detect actionable gene alterations; however, the TAT of NGS is often too long to translate into clinical decision making. Thus, rapid multi-gene testing alternatives are needed. Methods: A lung cancer genomic screening project (LC-SCRUM-Asia) capturing clinical outcome was established in 2013 to identify patients with oncogene drivers and to support the development of novel targeted therapies. Since February 2013 to May 2019 (LC-SCRUM-Asia 1st-phase), single gene testing and/or a targeted NGS assay, Oncomine Comprehensive Assay (OCA), were used for the genomic screening. Since June 2019 to December 2020 (2nd-phase), a multi-gene PCR assay (Amoy 9-in-1 test) and a rapid NGS assay (Genexus/Oncomine Precision Assay [OPA]) were also implemented as rapid multi-gene testing. Results: A total of 10667 Japanese NSCLC patients, including 6826 in the 1st-phase and 3841 in the 2nd-phase, were enrolled in the LC-SCRUM-Asia. Success rate for OCA: 93%, for 9-in-1 test: 98%, for Genexus/OPA: 96%. Median TAT for OCA: 21 days, for 9-in-1 test: 3 days, for Genexus/OPA: 4 days. The frequencies of genetic alterations detected in the 1st-/2nd-phase were EGFR: 17/24%, KRAS: 15/16%, HER2 ex20ins: 4/3%, ALK fusions: 3/3%, RET fusions: 3/2%, ROS1 fusions: 3/2%, MET ex14skip: 2/2%, BRAF V600E: 1/1%, NRG1 fusions: 0/0.2% and NTRK3 fusions: 0.05/0.04%. Overall percent agreement of 9-in-1 test compared with OCA for EGFR/KRAS/HER2/BRAF/MET/ALK/ROS1/RET/NTRK3 alterations was 98%, and that of OPA compared with OCA was 95%. The rate of patients who received targeted therapies as 1st-line treatment was significantly elevated in the 2nd-phase compared with the 1st-phase (510/3841 [13%] vs. 567/6826 [8%], p < 0.001). Through the genomic screening, 1410 (37%) and 1269 (18%) candidate patients for clinical trials of KRAS, HER2, BRAF, MET, ALK, ROS1, RET or TRK-targeted drugs were identified in the 2nd-phase and in the 1st-phase, respectively. The rate of patients who were actually enrolled into the genotype-matched clinical trials were also significantly higher in the 2nd-phase than in the 1st-phase (222 [6%] vs. 186 [3%], p < 0.001). In 1st-line treatments for advanced NSCLC patients, the median progression-free survival was 8.5 months (95% CI, 7.7−9.4) in the 2nd-phase (n = 1839) versus 6.1 months (95% CI, 5.9−6.3) in the 1st-phase (n = 4262) (p < 0.001). Conclusions: Both the 9-in-1 test and Genexus/OPA had short TATs (3−4 days), high success rates (96−98%) and good concordance (95−98%) compared with another NGS assay (OCA). These rapid multi-gene assays highly contributed to enabling precision medicine and the development of targeted therapies for advanced NSCLC.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2021 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 39, 2021 (suppl 15; abstr 9094)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2021.39.15_suppl.9094

Abstract #

9094

Poster Bd #

Online Only

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