A biomarker study of atezolizumab (atezo) + bevacizumab (bev) + carboplatin (carbo) + paclitaxel (pac) (ABCP) for patients with NSCLC harboring EGFR mutations (EGFRm) after failure of TKI therapy: NEJ043.

Authors

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Satoshi Watanabe

Department of Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan

Satoshi Watanabe , Naoki Furuya , Atsushi Nakamura , Jun Shiihara , Ichiro Nakachi , Hisashi Tanaka , Mika Nakao , Koichi Minato , Masahiro Seike , Shinichi Sasaki , Akira Kisohara , Susumu Takeuchi , Ryoichi Honda , Kei Takamura , Yiwei Ling , Shujiro Okuda , Hiroshi Kagamu , Kenichi Yoshimura , Toshiaki Kikuchi , Kunihiko Kobayashi

Organizations

Department of Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Respiratory Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Sendai Kousei Hospital, Sendai, Japan, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Jichi Medical University Saitama Medical Center, Saitama, Japan, Pulmonary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital, Utsunomiya, Japan, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology & Respiratory Medicine, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Izumo-Shi, Japan, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Gunma Prefectural Cancer Center, Ota-Shi, GUNMA-KEN, Japan, Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University Urayasu Hospital, Chiba, Japan, Respiratory Medicine, Kasukabe Medical Center, Kasukabe, Japan, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Asahi General Hospital, Asahi, Japan, First Department of Internal Medicine, Obihiro Kosei General Hospital, Obihiro, Japan, Medical AI Center, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Saiatama Medical University International Medical Center, Hidaka-Shi, Japan, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, Hidaka-Gun, Japan

Research Funding

Pharmaceutical/Biotech Company
Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Background: EGFRm NSCLC patients (pts) have limited treatment options after EGFR-TKI failure. We previously showed that the NEJ043 study investigating ABCP in EGFRm NSCLC pts after EGFR-TKI failure had a clinically meaningful efficacy (Furuya et al, ASCO 2022). Here we report the results of the biomarker study of NEJ043. Methods: NEJ043 study is a phase II study to evaluate the efficacy of ABCP in sensitizing EGFRm nonsquamous NSCLC pts after TKI failure. Pts received atezo (1200 mg), bev (15 mg/kg), carbo (AUC 6 mg/mL/min), and pac (175 mg/m2) every 3 weeks up to 4 cycles followed by atezo plus bev until loss of clinical benefit. Before treatment initiation and three cycles of ABCP, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were collected, and immunophenotypic data at each time point was obtained by flow cytometry. Results: 60 pts were included in the NEJ043 study and PBMCs were obtained from 31 pts. Pts with a higher percentage of CD11b+DRlowCD3-CD14+ myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) before ABCP had significantly longer PFS (median, 9.7 months (95% CI, 5.3-17.7) vs 5.6 months (95% CI, 3.9-8.1); HR 0.38; P = 0.0313). Further analysis of the immune cell phenotypes that changed between pre-treatment and the third course showed that pts with increased CD62LlowCD8+ cells (median, 12.8 months (95% CI, 5.6-20.3) vs 5.7 months (95% CI, 4.4-8.1); HR 0.25; P = 0.003) and PD-1+CCR7-CD45RA-CD8+ cells (median, 8.5 months (95% CI, 5.6-13.8) vs 5.7 months (95% CI, 2.6-8.1); HR 0.37; P = 0.0324) had significantly longer PFS. Conclusions: Inhibition of MDSCs by ABCP, especially bev, may be important for EGFRm pts whose antitumor immunity is suppressed by MDSCs before treatment. Better PFS may be expected in pts in whom ABCP therapy induced CD62LlowCD8+ effector T cells and PD-1+CCR7-CD45RA-CD8+effector memory T cells. Clinical trial information: jRCTs031190066.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2023 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

Clinical Trial Registration Number

jRCTs031190066

Citation

J Clin Oncol 41, 2023 (suppl 16; abstr 9079)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2023.41.16_suppl.9079

Abstract #

9079

Poster Bd #

67

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