Multi-omics analysis to reveal the change of peripheral blood TCR repertoire and tumor burden during neoadjuvant chemotherapy combined with sequential PD-1 blockade for patients with non-small cell lung cancers: A single-center, single-arm phase 2 trial.

Authors

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Bo Yang

Department of Oncology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Bo Yang , Chaoyang Liang , Qi Song , Qi Xiong , Jie Li , Yaping Long , Wenhao Zhou

Organizations

Department of Oncology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China, Department of Pathology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China, School of Medicine Nankai University, Tianjing, China, WiHealth Medical Laboratory, YuceBio Technology Co., Shenzhen, China

Research Funding

Other Government Agency
National Natural Science Fund of the People's Republic of China (NSFC) No.81902912

Background: Preoperative neoadjuvant chemotherapy combined with immunotherapy has been applied to the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, the optimal dosage of chemotherapy and sequencing for chemotherapy and immunotherapy remains controversial. Methods: In this single-arm phase 2 trial, patients with stage IB to IIIA resectable NSCLC were enrolled and received 2 cycles of dose-limiting platinum-based chemotherapy (albumin-bound paclitaxel or pemetrexed plus cisplatin or carboplatin) on day 1, combined with sintilimab (200mg) on day 5 before undergoing radical surgery. Combination postoperative adjuvant therapy with the same regimen was administered. The primary endpoints were objective response rate (ORR) and major pathological response (MPR). Biopsies and plasma at different timepoint were collected and performed with RNA sequencing, circulating tumor DNA sequencing and T cell receptor (TCR) sequencing. Results: 17 patients were enrolled. After neoadjuvant treatment, patients with completed response, partial responses and stable diseases were 11.8% (2/17), 70.6% (12/17) and 17.6% (3/17), respectively, yielding an ORR of 82.4%. Radiological downstaging was achieved in 82.4% (14/17) of patients. All patients (17/17, 100%) experienced the R0 resection. Pathologic complete response and MPR were identified in 35.2% (6/17) patients and 23.5% (4/17) patients, respectively. Only 1 of the 17 patients (5.9%) experienced grade 3 or greater adverse event. Multi-omics analysis revealed chemotherapy combined with sequential PD-1 blockade results in the increase of dominated TCR clones and the decrease of the tumor burden. Especially during chemotherapy of cycle 1, the dominated TCR clones were significantly increased, and the maxVAF of ctDNA was significantly decreased. The change between the dominated TCR clones and maxVAF of ctDNA was negatively correlated. Conclusions: In patients with stage IB to IIIA resectable NSCLC, the neoadjuvant therapy with dose-limiting platinum-based chemotherapy combined with sequential sintilimab was safer and resulted in significant antitumor activity in patients with resectable NSCLC. The changes in TCR repertoire and ctDNA during treatment were analyzed, which provided evidence for the rationality of neoadjuvant chemotherapy combined with sequential PD-1 blockade. Clinical trial information: ChiCTR2000033092.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2023 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Publication Only

Session Title

Publication Only: Lung Cancer—Non-Small Cell Local-Regional/Small Cell/Other Thoracic Cancers

Track

Lung Cancer

Sub Track

Local-Regional Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

Clinical Trial Registration Number

ChiCTR2000033092

Citation

J Clin Oncol 41, 2023 (suppl 16; abstr e20582)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2023.41.16_suppl.e20582

Abstract #

e20582

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