Tazemetostat in patients with tumors with alterations in EZH2 or the SWI/SNF complex: Results from NCI-COG Pediatric MATCH trial Arm C (APEC1621C).

Authors

Susan Chi

Susan N. Chi

Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Boston, MA

Susan N. Chi , Joanna S. Yi , P. Mickey Williams , Sinchita Roy-Chowdhuri , David R. Patton , Brent Coffey , Joel M. Reid , Jin Piao , Lauren Saguilig , Todd Allen Alonzo , Stacey L. Berg , Joyce Mhlanga , Elizabeth Fox , Douglas S. Hawkins , Margaret M. Mooney , Naoko Takebe , James V. Tricoli , Katherine A. Janeway , Nita Seibel , Donald Williams Parsons

Organizations

Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Boston, MA, Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, Center for Biomedical Informatics & Information Technology, NCI, NIH, Bethedsa, MD, Essex Management, Center for Biomedical Informatics & Information Technology, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, Children's Oncology Group, Monrovia, CA, University of Southern California Children's Oncology Group, Arcadia, CA, Texas Childrens Cancer Center, Houston, TX, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, Seattle Children’s Hospital, University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, Cancer Diagnosis Program, DCTD, NCI, NIH, Bethedsa, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program, DCTD, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, Texas Children's Cancer Center Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Research Funding

U.S. National Institutes of Health

Background: The NCI-Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Pediatric Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice (MATCH) trial assigns patients, age 1-21 years, with relapsed or refractory solid tumors, lymphomas, and histiocytic disorders to phase 2 treatment arms based on genetic alterations detected in their tumor. Arm C evaluated the EZH2 inhibitor tazemetostat in patients whose tumors harbored EZH2 hotspot mutations or SMARCB1 or SMARCA4 loss by immunohistochemistry. Methods: Tazemetostat 1200 mg/m2/dose PO BID was administered to the first 13 patients; after study amendment due to second malignancy noted in the pediatric phase 1 trial, the dose for patients with non-CNS tumors was reduced to 520 mg/m2/dose PO BID. Patients were treated for 28-day cycles until PD or intolerable toxicity (max 26 cycles); response assessments occurred every 2-3 cycles. Primary and secondary endpoints were ORR and PFS, respectively. Results: Twenty eligible and evaluable patients (median age 5 years; range 1-21) were enrolled between Nov 2017 and Sept 2020. SMARCB1 loss was detected in 16/20 (80%) tumors: atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor (ATRT, n = 8), malignant rhabdoid tumor (MRT, n = 4), epithelioid sarcoma (ES, n = 2), renal medullary carcinoma (RMC, n = 1) and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC, n = 1). EZH2 mutations were identified in 3/20 (15%) tumors: Ewing sarcoma (n = 2), ependymoma (n = 1). One patient with Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) had SMARCA4 loss. Centrally reviewed, one objective response (PR) was observed (LCH [SMARCA4], 26 cycles at 1200 mg/m2/dose BID). Five other patients had a best response of stable disease (ES [SMARCB1], 26 cycles, 520 mg/m2/dose BID; ATRT [SMARCB1], 13 cycles,1200 mg/m2/dose BID; RMC [SMARCB1], 12 cycles, 520 mg/m2/dose BID; ES [SMARCB1], 9 cycles,1200 mg/m2/dose BID; ATRT [SMARCB1], 6 cycles, 1200 mg/m2/dose BID). No other patients received > 2 cycles. Six-month PFS was 35% (95% CI 15.7%, 55.2%); OS was 45% (95% CI 23.1%, 64.7%). Treatment-related adverse events were consistent with AEs previously reported with tazemetostat, including anemia, thrombocytopenia, elevated LFTs, abdominal pain, dyspnea, infection, and intracranial hemorrhage. Three patients had bromide elevations. Conclusions: In this cohort of children with relapsed tumors harboring EZH2 mutations or loss of SMARCB1 or SMARCA4, tazemetostat did not produce significant objective responses (ORR: 5%, 90% CI 1%, 20%). However, we observed prolonged stable disease of > 6 months (range: 6-26 cycles) in 33% of patients across different histologic diagnoses, including two patients who received the full two years of study therapysuggesting a potential effect of tazemetostat on disease stabilization. Future studies will incorporate tazemetostat in combination with chemotherapy or immunologic agents for patients with these aggressive and difficult to treat tumors. Clinical trial information: NCT03213665.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2022 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Discussion Session

Session Title

Pediatric Oncology

Track

Pediatric Oncology

Sub Track

Pediatric Solid Tumors

Clinical Trial Registration Number

NCT03213665

Citation

J Clin Oncol 40, 2022 (suppl 16; abstr 10009)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2022.40.16_suppl.10009

Abstract #

10009

Poster Bd #

224

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