Describing the genomic landscape of bladder cancer histologic subtypes.

Authors

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Rafee Talukder

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Rafee Talukder , Rachel Berg , Minxuan Huang , Vanessa M. Nepomucino , Melissa Conrad Stoppler , Dimitrios Makrakis , Aihua Edward Yen , Martha P. Mims , Seth P. Lerner , Solomon L. Woldu , Yair Lotan , Evan Y. Yu , Ali Raza Khaki , Jeanny B. Aragon-Ching , Petros Grivas

Organizations

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, Tempus Labs, Inc., Chicago, IL, Department of Medicine, NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, Department of Urology, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Inova Schar Cancer Institute, Fairfax, VA, Division of Hematology & Oncology, University of Washington & Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA

Research Funding

No funding sources reported

Background: Histologic subtypes of bladder cancer are associated with poor prognosis and therapy resistance; understanding of their biology can help identify therapies to improve outcomes. We aimed to describe the genomic alteration (GA) landscape of pure urothelial (UC) and histologic subtypes: plasmacytoid (PC), micropapillary (MP), sarcomatoid (SA), small cell/neuroendocrine (SC), squamous cell differentiation (SQ), adenocarcinoma (AD). Methods: Approximately 2165 patients (pts) were selected from the Tempus multimodal database. Selection criteria included diagnosis of bladder cancer (UC or histologic subtypes: PC, MP, SA, SC, SQ, AD) and sequencing via the Tempus xT assay. Genomic and immunotherapy biomarkers, including mutations, fusions, copy number variants, tumor mutation burden (TMB-high defined as ≥10 mutations/Mb) and MSI status were determined for each subtype and compared using Fisher’s Exact and Kruskal-Wallis tests. Results: Among 2165 identified pts, 1738 (80%) had UC (84% pure and 16% mixed histology), Table shows genomic alterations per histologic subtype. Median age at diagnosis was 70. The overall cohort included male (73%), white (84%), and ever smokers (71%). Of 1197 pts with staging information available, 71% tumors were stage IV. TMB-H and MSI-high status were noted in 17% and 1.1% of the overall cohort, respectively, and were relatively similar across histologies. PD-L1 positive status by IHC was noted in 30% in the overall cohort, and statistically lower in PC (7.7%), SC (10%) and AD (8.8%) vs UC (32%), SA (46%) and SQ (45%) (p<0.001). Compared to UC, FGFR3 was significantly lower in SC (9% vs 1%, p=0.003) and AD (9% vs 1%, p=0.001). We noted FGFR2/3 fusions in 2.6% of the entire cohort and all cases were UC. Compared to UC, ERBB2 was significantly higher in MP (13% vs 45%, p<0.001) and lower in SQ (13% vs 2%, p<0.001). ERBB2 amplification was more common in MP (16%) vs 8% in PC, 6.2% in UC, and 1.6% in SC. Conclusions: Distinct genomic alteration patterns were found among different histologic subtypes of bladder cancer and conventional UC. Assessing the genomic landscape of bladder cancer can help identify potential ‘actionable’ targets and biomarkers, and better inform clinical trial designs. Limitations include lack of clinical data annotation, tumor heterogeneity and retrospective study nature.

Altered GeneUC
N=1,738 (%)
PC
N=25 (%)
MP
N=38 (%)
SA
N=37 (%)
SC
N=113 (%)
SQ
N=126 (%)
AD
N=88 (%)
p
TERT1,270 (73)21 (84)21 (84)31 (82)32 (86)80 (71)88 (70)<0.001
TP531,015 (58)14 (56)14 (56)20 (53)22 (59)94 (83)87 (69)<0.001
RB1337 (19)10 (40)14 (37)11 (30)62 (55)7 (6)9 (10)<0.001
ERBB2220 (13)6 (24)17 (45)4 (11)9 (8)3 (2)7 (8)<0.001
PIK3CA276 (16)3 (12)4 (11)13 (35)22 (19)49 (39)5 (6)<0.001
MTAP334 (19)1 (4)3 (8)9 (24)1 (1)40 (32)11 (12)<0.001
BRCA250 (2.9)3 (12)2 (5.3)1 (2.7)2 (1.8)4 (3.2)2 (2.3)0.5
ARID1A384 (22)4 (16)9 (24)4 (11)33 (29)12 (10)14 (16)<0.001
FGFR3158 (9)2 (8)4 (11)7 (19)1 (1)13 (10)1 (1)0.001

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2024 ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Poster Session B: Urothelial Carcinoma

Track

Urothelial Carcinoma

Sub Track

Translational Research, Tumor Biology, Biomarkers, and Pathology

Citation

J Clin Oncol 42, 2024 (suppl 4; abstr 680)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2024.42.4_suppl.680

Abstract #

680

Poster Bd #

L2

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