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Young, Lauren

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7695-7437

Mayo Clinic

Foundation Medicine (United States)

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Precision medicine for gallbladder cancer using somatic copy number amplifications (SCNA) and DNA repair pathway gene alterations.
Javle, Milind , Catenacci, Daniel V.T. , Jain, Apurva , Young, Lauren , Wang, Kai , Chung, Jon , Schrock, Alexa B. , Gay, Laurie M. , Ahn, Daniel H. , Kelley, Robin Kate , Ganesan, Shridar , Stephens, Phil , Miller, Vincent A. , Ali, Siraj M. , Shroff, Rachna T. , Hezel, Aram F. , Goyal, Lipika , Bekaii‐Saab, Tanios , Ross, Jeffrey S

Journal of Clinical Oncology | July 6, 2017 | Volume: 35 | Issue: 15_suppl | Pages: 4076-4076

10.1200/jco.2017.35.15_suppl.4076 Get It

4076 Background: Gallbladder carcinoma (GBC) is commonly diagnosed at an advanced, unresectable disease stage and has a poor prognosis. Comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) has a developing role in guiding systemic, precision anti-cancer therapy. Methods: We performed hybrid capture-based CGP on FFPE samples for 491 consecutive advanced GBCs. Mean coverage depth was >550X for up to 315 cancer-related genes plus 37 introns from 28 genes frequently rearranged in cancer. All 4 classes of genomic alterations (GA) were detected. Tumor mutational burden (TMB) was determined on up to 1.1 Mb of sequenced DNA. Results: Median age was 64 (range 25-88) and 69% (337/491) of patients were female. 96% (470), 2.9% (14), and 1.4% (7) of GBC patients had the diagnosis of adenocarcinoma, adenosquamous, or carcinoma not specified (NOS), respectively. Commonly altered genes were TP53 (62%), CDNK2A (31%), ARID1A (18%), and SMAD4 (15%), and most of the genetic aberrations (GA) were short variants. Potentially targetable SCNAs (including ERBB genes, MET, FGFRs, and the CCND1-FGF3/4/19 11q13 amplicon) were identified in 21% of cases (Table). Oncogenic BRAF, ALK, or FGFR2/3 rearrangements were found in 7 cases (1.4%). Moreover, 7.8% of cases had BRCA2 or ATM GA, and 0.8% had INI1loss suggesting benefit from PARP or EZH2 inhibitors, respectively. TMB was low; the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles were 2.5, 3.8 and 6.3 mutations/Mb, respectively. Less than 1% of cases had microsatellite instability. Radiological response to TKIs and immunotherapy was noted. Conclusions: In addition to the significant opportunity for anti-HER targeted therapies, other subsets of GBC cases harbored kinase GA (particularly SCNA), the 11q13 amplicon, or BRCA2/ ATM/ INI1mutations that are linked to therapeutic benefit. How the frequency of both driver SCNA and DNA repair alterations in GBC can be linked with inflammation awaits additional investigation. [Table: see text]