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    MA08 - Pawing the Way to Improve Outcomes in Stage III NSCLC (ID 127)

    • Event: WCLC 2019
    • Type: Mini Oral Session
    • Track: Treatment of Locoregional Disease - NSCLC
    • Presentations: 1
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      MA08.05 - A Multi-Center Analysis of Right vs Left-Sided Pneumonectomy Following Induction Therapy (Now Available) (ID 1178)

      15:15 - 16:45  |  Author(s): Mark Berry

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      Background

      Previous single-center studies of pneumonectomy following induction therapy for non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have found a significant perioperative risk associated with right-sided pneumonectomy. We examined the impact of laterality on long-term survival after induction therapy followed by pneumonectomy in a multi-institutional analysis.

      Method

      Perioperative and long-term outcomes of patients with NSCLC who underwent pneumonectomy following induction chemotherapy with or without radiation from 2000-2016 across 3 institutions were evaluated using multivariable logistic regression, Cox proportional hazards modeling and propensity score-matched analysis. Patients who underwent a completion pneumonectomy or who had M1 disease were excluded from the analysis.

      Result

      During the study period, 172 patients (right n = 78 [45%], left n = 94 [55%]) met inclusion criteria. Right-sided pneumonectomy was associated with a similar perioperative complication rate (38% [30/78] vs 27% [25/94], p=0.10), and 30-day (13% [10/78] vs 9% [8/94], p=0.36) and 90-day mortality (23% [18/78] vs 13% [12/94], p=0.08) when compared to left-sided pneumonectomy. In multivariable analysis, right-sided pneumonectomy was not found to be a predictor of higher perioperative complications (OR 0.85 [95% CI: 0.33-2.14], p=0.73) or 30-day (OR 2.06 [95% CI: 0.44-9.69], p=0.36) and 90-day mortality (OR 2.06 [95% CI: 0.54-7.88], p=0.29). Overall survival between right and left pneumonectomy was not significantly different in unadjusted (5-year survival 30% [95% CI: 19%-41%] vs 29% [95% CI: 20%-39%], log-rank p=0.77 [Figure]) or multivariable analysis (adjusted hazard ratio, 1.05 [95% CI: 0.63-1.76], p = 0.84). A propensity score-matched analysis of 108 patients balancing baseline characteristics—including pulmonary function, tumor size and stage—was also performed, and found no significant differences in perioperative complication rates (46% [25/54] vs 48% [26/54], p=0.85), 30-day (17% [9/54] vs 7% [4/54], p=0.14) and 90-day mortality (26% [14/54] vs 13% [7/54], p=0.09) between right versus left pneumonectomy, respectively. Overall survival was not significantly different between right- and left-sided pneumonectomy (5-year survival 33% [95% CI: 20%-47%] vs 28% [95% CI: 16%-41%], log-rank p=0.98).

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      Conclusion

      In this multi-center analysis, right-sided pneumonectomy after induction therapy was not associated with significantly higher perioperative mortality rates or worse long-term survival when compared to a left-sided pneumonectomy.

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    P2.05 - Interventional Diagnostic/Pulmonology (ID 168)

    • Event: WCLC 2019
    • Type: Poster Viewing in the Exhibit Hall
    • Track: Interventional Diagnostics/Pulmonology
    • Presentations: 1
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    • Coordinates: 9/09/2019, 10:15 - 18:15, Exhibit Hall
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      P2.05-01 - Broad Genomic Profiling of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid in Lung Cancer (ID 615)

      10:15 - 18:15  |  Author(s): Mark Berry

      • Abstract

      Background

      We hypothesized that tumor-derived mutations from non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are readily detectable in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL). To explore our hypothesis, we employed the CAncer Personalized Profiling by deep Sequencing (CAPP-Seq) method to identify somatic mutations in BAL compared to blood.

      Method

      We profiled 200 matching lavage, plasma, and PBMC samples from a total of 38 NSCLC patients and 21 controls. We first applied a tumor-informed calling approach to most sensitively detect mutations in BAL and plasma. We then applied a tumor-naïve mutation calling strategy to explore the effect of field cancerization in at risk patients with lung nodules or who smoked. Last, we developed a BAL mutation classifier to differentiate patients with cancer from those without and compared the performance of this classifier to BAL cytology.

      Result

      Tumors were primarily lung adenocarcinomas (84%) and mostly early stage disease (I-II 71%; III-IV 29%). We called a median of 4 mutations per tumor. TP53 and KRAS were the most frequently detected variants in tumor (47% and 35% respectively) and lavage cell free (cf) DNA (38% and 26% respectively). Using a tumor-informed approach, we detected significantly more variants in lavage cfDNA than in plasma from cancer patients (p<0.001) and variants were more frequently called in lavage cfDNA than in plasma from cancer patients (77% vs. 41%, p=0.004). As expected, tumor-naïve calling resulted in fewer variants detected in both sample types when compared to tumor-informed calling but we identified more tumor mutations (p<0.001) and more putative cancer driver mutations (p< 0.003) in lavage cfDNA than in plasma. Mutations of cancer driver genes at the patient level and average %VAF at the gene level were significantly lower in lavage cfDNA controls compared to cancer patients (p=0.017 and p=0.016 respectively). Since we also detected mutations in controls, presumably secondary to field cancerization and somatic mosaicism, we developed a risk score of mutation features to classify whether a BAL specimen was likely to come from a cancer patient or control. At a risk score level that identified all non-cancers as benign (A), this BAL classifier of 11 mutation features identified more cancers than cytology for all stages of lung cancer (65% vs 12%, p=0.001) and in stage I/II disease (50% vs. 20%, p=0.25; B).

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      Conclusion

      We show here that BAL genomic profiling may augment plasma profiling and BAL cytology for diagnosing and profiling NSCLC. Validation studies will be required to confirm our findings.