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    OA10 - EGFR Mutations (ID 382)

    • Event: WCLC 2016
    • Type: Oral Session
    • Track: Biology/Pathology
    • Presentations: 1
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      OA10.06 - Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients with Lung Cancer Harboring Multiple Molecular Alterations (Biomarker IFCT Study) (ID 5425)

      11:00 - 12:30  |  Author(s): J. Sabourin

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      Background:
      Carcinogenesis of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) can be driven by oncogenic addiction that can be targeted by specific inhibitors. It is commonly accepted that these molecular alterations are mutually exclusive. Nevertheless, limited series suggest that concomitant molecular alteration can occur in lung cancer and little is known about their sensitivity to treatment. Based on a nationwide screening program conducted during one year, we aimed to analyze the largest molecular database to date for concomitant mutations in order to determine the prevalence of multiple genomic alterations in NSCLC and their impact on both prognosis and response to treatment.

      Methods:
      The database of Biomarker France IFCT study collecting the molecular profile of 17 664 NSCLC has been used. The prevalence of multiple alterations and of each association was calculated. Impact on prognosis (overall survival, OS), response to targeted or conventional treatments (progression free survival, PFS and objective response rate, ORR) were established and compared with the population of patients harboring single mutations and full wild-type.

      Results:
      We identified 162 (0.9%) patients with double genetic alterations and 3 with triple alterations. Multiple mutations involved preferentially KRAS (67.3%), PI3K (53.3%) and EGFR (42.4%). Patients with multiple alterations were male (56.4%) with a median age of 66.7 and essentially adenocarcinoma (83.6%). More never-smokers were observed in comparison with patient with singles alterations (34.7 vs. 25.8 %, p<0.001). OS was not significantly different between single and multiple alterations whatever the type of mutations. Patients with EGFR/KRAS and EGFR/PI3K mutated tumors had worse PFS after biomarker analysis than patients with EGFR single mutation (7.1 and 7.1 months vs. 14.9 months, p=0.02 and 0.002, respectively). Concomitant mutations in patients harboring ALK rearrangement had little impact on OS (17.7 months vs. 20.3 months, p=0.57) or PFS (10.3 months vs. 12.1 months, p=0.93). Patients harboring KRAS mutations with another alteration had similar OS (13.4 vs. 11.2 months, p=0.28), PFS (6.4 months vs. 7.2 months, p=0.78) and ORR to first-line chemotherapy (41.7% vs. 37.2%) to those only harboring KRAS mutations.

      Conclusion:
      With almost 1% of patients harboring multiple genomic alterations, the dogma of mutually exclusive mutations should be reconsidered. Double mutations do not significantly decrease OS but alter PFS under first line treatment for EGFR mutated patients. Therapies targeting the dominant oncogene remain generally active in this setting.

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