Prevalence of actionable oncogenic alterations (AGA) among patients with advanced (adv) non-squamous (NSQ) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) by age, sex, and race in the United States (US).

Authors

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Sabine Oskar

Merck & Co, Inc., Whitehouse Station, NJ

Sabine Oskar , Ke (Kirsten) Zu , Ashwini Arunachalam , Yu-Han Kao , Cai Chen , Bin Zhao , Himani Aggarwal

Organizations

Merck & Co, Inc., Whitehouse Station, NJ, Merck & Co, Inc., Boston, MA, Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, Merck and Co, Inc., Rahway, NJ

Research Funding

Pharmaceutical/Biotech Company
Merck & Co., Inc

Background: Identification of AGA in NSCLC has improved the understanding of lung cancer pathogenesis and introduced targeted therapies directed against specific genomic alterations. Given the limited data on the prevalence of AGA by demographics, we evaluated prevalence of AGA by age at diagnosis (dx), sex, and race. Methods: A descriptive study used the US nationwide de-identified Flatiron Health-Foundation Medicine NSCLC clinico-genomic database. Eligible patients were adults with a dx of adv NSQ NSCLC from Jan-2016 to Sep-2020 who initiated a first line therapy. The prevalence of AGA for each age, sex, or race stratum was calculated. Results: The cohort included 3938 patients; 67.9% White, 52.9% female, and median age at dx was 68 y. Table 1 presents the prevalence of AGA. The prevalence of EGFR and BRAF V600E mutations increased with age at dx. ALK rearrangement and ROS1 fusion were more prevalent among patients < 50 y vs ≥50 y while MET exon 14 skipping mutation was more prevalent among patients ≥75 y vs < 75 y. EGFR and KRAS G12C mutations were more prevalent in female vs male. Compared to White or Black, Asians had a higher prevalence of EGFR mutations and lower prevalence of KRAS G12C. Conclusions: The prevalence of certain AGA among patients with adv NSCLC vary by demographics, which may contribute to disproportionate disease burden in certain strata. These results highlight the need to enhance diversity of clinical trial populations and ensure the disease burden across demographics in the general population are represented in clinical trials.

Prevalence of AGA in advanced NSQ NSCLC in the US, by demographics.

Prevalence of AGA, N (%)
OverallEGFR mutationaALK rearrangementKRAS G12C mutationBRAF V600E mutationERBB2 mutationMET Exon 14 skippingRET fusionROS1 fusion
3938 (100%)639 (16.2%)142 (3.6%)563 (14.3%)78 (2.0%)75 (1.9%)105 (2.7%)43 (1.1%)43 (1.1%)
Ageb, y< 50178 (4.5%)24 (13.5%)28 (15.7%)18 (10.1%)NSNSNSNS9 (5.1%)
50-641254 (31.8%)190 (15.2%)53 (4.2%)187 (14.9%)21 (1.7%)24 (1.9%)9 (0.7%)11 (0.9%)16 (1.3%)
65-741408 (35.8%)221 (15.7%)40 (2.8%)201 (14.3%)28 (2.0%)28 (2.0%)36 (2.6%)20 (1.4%)11 (0.8%)
≥ 751098 (27.9%)204 (18.6%)21 (1.9%)157 (14.3%)28 (2.6%)20 (1.8%)57 (5.2%)8 (0.7%)7 (0.6%)
SexFemale2085 (52.9%)434 (20.8%)84 (4.0%)333 (16.0%)44 (2.1%)48 (2.3%)66 (3.2%)24 (1.2%)26 (1.2%)
Male1853 (47.1%)205 (11.1%)58 (3.1%)230 (12.4%)34 (1.8%)27 (1.5%)39 (2.1%)19 (1.0%)17 (0.9%)
RacecWhite2674 (67.9%)387 (14.5%)86 (3.2%)394 (14.7%)55 (2.1%)47 (1.8%)74 (2.8%)30 (1.1%)32 (1.2%)
Black233 (5.9%)30 (12.9%)11 (4.7%)33 (14.2%)6 (2.6%)NSNSNSNS
Asian112 (2.8%)72 (64.3%)6 (5.4%)6 (5.4%)NSNSNSNSNS

aExon 19 deletion, Exon 20 insertion, T790M, L858R; bAge at adv NSCLC dx; cNot shown for Hispanic, other, unknown (n = 2, 601, 316, resp). *NS (data not shown for groups N≤5); y, years.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2023 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Publication Only

Session Title

Publication Only: Lung Cancer—Non-Small Cell Metastatic

Track

Lung Cancer

Sub Track

Metastatic Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

Citation

J Clin Oncol 41, 2023 (suppl 16; abstr e21206)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2023.41.16_suppl.e21206

Abstract #

e21206

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