Investigating alterations in cancer driver genes and other potentially targetable mutations in patients with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA) treated on the randomised phase III multicentre BILCAP clinical trial.

Authors

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Valerie Elizabeth Crolley

UCL-University College London (United Kingdom ), London, United Kingdom

Valerie Elizabeth Crolley , Rachel Guest , Andrew David Beggs , Eleanor Jaynes , Steve Thorn , Javier Herrero , Ian Tomlinson , Juan W. Valle , John Neil Primrose , John A Bridgewater

Organizations

UCL-University College London (United Kingdom ), London, United Kingdom, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Institute of Cancer & Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, University of Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, United Kingdom, Bill Lyons Informatics Centre, London, United Kingdom, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Division of Cancer Sciences, The University of Manchester/The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, United Kingdom, UCL Cancer Institute, London, United Kingdom

Research Funding

Pharmaceutical/Biotech Company
Incyte

Background: The BILCAP clinical trial established adjuvant capecitabine as the standard of care treatment in patients with resected biliary tract cancer. Translational work to investigate the role of cancer driver genes and other potentially targetable mutations in patients enrolled on BILCAP was performed, with this analysis focusing on patients with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA). Methods: Archived fixed formalin (FFPE) tissue samples were collected from consented BILCAP patients. These samples underwent DNA and RNA extraction followed by low-pass whole genome sequencing (lp-WGS), targeted gene sequencing (TGS) and RNA sequencing (RNAseq) for copy number (CN) analysis, mutation analysis and gene fusion analysis. Results: 84 of the 447 BILCAP patients had iCCA; 45 successfully underwent lp-WGS and RNAseq, of whom 36 also underwent TGS. The median age was 61 years (95% CI 57.8 – 64.2), 55.6% were female and 23 received capecitabine (51.1%). FGFR2 gene fusions were present in 9 patients (20.0%), as were fusions in NTRK1 (n = 3, 6.7%), FGFR1 (n = 3, 6.7%), FGFR3 (n = 2, 4.4%) and FGFR4 (n = 2, 4.4%). Commonly mutated driver genes included ROS1 (n = 12, 33.3%), MET (n = 10, 27.8%) and ALK (n = 7, 19.4%) with known pathogenic variants seen in IDH1 (n = 4, 11.1%; total number of mutations = 7, 19.4%), BRAF (n = 2, 5.6%; total n = 6, 16.7%), FGFR2 (n = 1, 2.7%; total n = 8, 22.2%), FGFR3 (n = 1, 2.7%, total n = 6, 16.7%) , IDH2 (n = 1, 2.7%; total n = 6, 16.7%) and EGFR (n = 1, 2.7%; total n = 4, 11.1%). Commonly amplified (CN ≥ 4, ploidy < 3) genes included NTRK1 (n = 9, 20.0%), ERBB2 (n = 8, 17.8%), and MET (n = 3, 6.7%). Most of the alterations investigated in this cohort did not significantly affect recurrence risk or overall survival (OS), including FGFR2 fusions (OS HR 1.23, p = 0.695; recurrence HR 1.32 p = 0.555). However, the presence of a FGFR3 fusion gene significantly reduced OS (OS HR 6.57, p = 0.0091; recurrence HR 3.71, p = 0.0734), and having ≥ 4 copies of either NTRK1 (OS HR 3.55, p = 0.0027; recurrence HR 3.48, p = 0.0019) or MET (OS HR 6.06, p < 0.001; recurrence HR 6.05 p < 0.001) significantly reduced OS and increased the risk of recurrence. Conclusions: The BILCAP cohort shows a wide variety of driver and potentially targetable mutations in unselected iCCA patients, comparable to previous early-stage biliary tract cancer datasets. Of note, patients with FGFR3 fusions, MET amplification or NTRK1 amplification had significantly shorter OS, and patients with MET or NTRK1 amplification had significantly reduced OS and significantly increased risk of disease recurrence. MET amplification, NTRK1 amplification and FGFR3 fusions may be important indicators in determining prognosis, and could provide attractive targets for future targeted anti-cancer therapy in iCCA. Clinical trial information: EUCTR2005-003318-13.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2023 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Discussion Session

Session Title

Gastrointestinal Cancer—Gastroesophageal, Pancreatic, and Hepatobiliary

Track

Gastrointestinal Cancer—Gastroesophageal, Pancreatic, and Hepatobiliary

Sub Track

Hepatobiliary Cancer - Local-Regional Disease

Citation

J Clin Oncol 41, 2023 (suppl 16; abstr 4019)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2023.41.16_suppl.4019

Abstract #

4019

Poster Bd #

340

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