Pub Date : 2024-10-24DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2024.107993
Antonin Levy , Thierry Berghmans , Michael Koller , Beatrice Fournier , Murielle Mauer , Nicolaus Andratschke , Corinne Faivre-Finn
The PRIMALung EORTC-1901 trial investigates brain MRI ± PCI in all-stages of SCLC, aiming for non-inferior survival, improve cognition in the era of immunotherapy.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-22DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2024.107994
Xue He , Zhihui Yang , Fang Wu , Qingchun Liang , Wenliang Liu , Fenglei Yu , Chen Chen
The increased detection of synchronous multiple primary lung cancers (sMPLC) through advanced computed tomography underscores the necessity for innovative therapeutic approaches. sMPLC typically manifests as ground-glass opacities, mixed ground-glass opacities, and/or solid nodules, predominantly in early-stage, non-smoking female patients, with a majority being adenocarcinomas. The high prevalence of EGFR mutations and considerable heterogeneity among lesions pose distinct diagnostic and therapeutic challenges for sMPLC. This study provides a comprehensive review and analysis of recent clinical and radiological studies, genomic profiling, and the efficacy of the “Surgery + X” treatment model for sMPLC. Additionally, the article discusses several intricate and complex sMPLC cases, shedding light on the disease’s complexities and identifying existing gaps and potential breakthroughs in clinical diagnosis, treatment, and research. It underscores the critical role of a multidisciplinary approach and advocates for targeted research on sMPLC, highlighting its potential to impact lung cancer research significantly.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-21DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2024.107990
Luca Bertolaccini , Antonino Carmelo Tralongo , Marzia Del Re , Francesco Facchinetti , Roberto Ferrara , Tindara Franchina , Paolo Graziano , Umberto Malapelle , Jessica Menis , Antonio Passaro , Sara Pilotto , Sara Ramella , Giulio Rossi , Rocco Trisolini , Michela Cinquini , Francesco Passiglia , Silvia Novello
While recent randomized controlled trials (RCT) have suggested superior overall survival (OS) outcomes with segmentectomy over lobectomy, questions remain regarding the comparability of these surgical procedures for treating early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to synthetize existing evidence and to compare the survival outcomes observed for stage IA NSCLC following segmentectomy or lobectomy.
40 studies (38 observational, 2 RCTs) encompassing 103,926 patients were analyzed. Primary outcomes included overall survival (OS), disease-free survival (DFS), local recurrences, harvested lymph nodes, postoperative morbidity, and length of hospital stay. Risk of bias was assessed using established tools, and evidence certainty was evaluated using GRADE.
Non-RCTs showed an OS HR of 1.10 (95 % CI: 0.94–1.30, p = 0.24) with low certainty, contrasting with RCTs’ HR of 0.82 (95 % CI: 0.66–1.02, p = 0.7) with moderate certainty. Local recurrences exhibited OR 1.40 (95 % CI: 0.94–2.08, p = 0.09) in non-RCTs with low certainty, and RR 1.61 (95 % CI: 1.12–2.31, p = 0.01) in RCTs with low certainty. Non-RCTs showed DFS HR 1.13 (95 % CI: 0.95–1.34, p = 0.18) with low certainty, while RCTs yielded HR 1.00 (95 % CI: 0.85–1.18, p = 0.97) with moderate certainty. Lobectomy resulted in more harvested lymph nodes. Postoperative morbidity and length of hospital stay did not differ significantly.
While definitive evidence for OS, DFS, and postoperative outcomes differences was inconclusive, a potential increase in local recurrences following lobectomy was noted. Further well-designed studies are warranted to enhance evidence and inform clinical practice in stage I lung cancer surgery.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-20DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2024.107995
Eduard Teixidor-Vilà , Jan Trallero , Montse Puigdemont , Anna Vidal-Vila , Alejandro Hernandez-Martínez , Elia Sais , Josep Sabaté-Ortega , Sara Verdura , Javier A. Menendez , Joaquim Bosch-Barrera , Arantza Sanvisens , Rafael Marcos-Gragera
Background
Lung cancer (LC) is Europe’s primary cause of cancer-related mortality largely due to its historically low survival rates. The aim of this study was to analyze 26-year survival trends in the province of Girona, Spain, and to identify key prognostic factors.
Methods
Population-based study of LC cases collected between 1994 and 2019, with follow-up until December 31, 2021. Variables included date of diagnosis, sex, age, histology, and tumor stage (the latter since 2010). Diagnosis dates were categorized into three periods (1994–2002, 2003–2011, and 2012–2019). Multivariate flexible parametric models, incorporating age as a non-linear, time-varying covariate, were used to analyze net survival (NS) and trends. Annual absolute change in survival (AAC_S) was calculated using 3-year NS.
Results
The analysis of 9,113 LC cases showed a NS improvement between the first and last period (7.1 months (95 %CI: 6.5;7.6) to 8.5 months (95 %CI: 7.9;9.1)). Squamous cell carcinoma (NSC-SCC) showed the greatest improvement with an AAC_S of 0.32 % (95 % CI: 0.21; 0.43), while survival for non-small cell lung cancer not otherwise specified declined (AAC_S of −0.19 % (95 %CI: −0.26; −0.12)). Prognostic analysis of the 3,642 cases (2010–2019) indicated a lower LC death risk for adenocarcinoma and NSC-SCC compared to LC not otherwise specified (HR 0.52 and 0.62, respectively). Increasing tumor stage correlated with higher LC mortality risk (1.8-, 4.0-, and 10.1-fold increase for stage II, III, and IV, respectively, compared to stage I).
Conclusions
LC survival has notably improved, particularly for NSC-SCC. Survival is influenced by sex, age, date of diagnosis, tumor histology and especially by stage, underscoring comprehensive data collection’s importance.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-15DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2024.107991
Zhexin Bai , Xu Cheng , Tianyu Ma , Gege Li , Xiaojue Wang , Ziyu Wang , Ling Yi , Zhidong Liu
Purpose
Neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy has the potential to reduce tumor burden, improve the pathological complete response (pCR) rate, and significantly prolong patients’ disease-free survival (DFS). However, the treatment’s effectiveness varies among NSCLC patients. The immunological mechanisms contributing to tumor regression still require further exploration and elucidation.
Methods
The immune status of patients’ local tumor microenvironment (TME) before and after neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy, their paired pulmonary lymph nodes (11th LNs) after therapy, including infiltrating immune cell densities and their correlations, were analyzed using multiplex immunofluorescence.
Results
Fifty-six NSCLC patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy were enrolled and subsequently underwent surgical resection and pathological evaluation. Among these, 19 patients achieved a pCR, 6 patients exhibited a major pathological response (MPR), and 31 patients did not achieve MPR. There were no significant difference in the densities of CD8+ T cell, Treg and Dendritic cell (DC) in patients’ TME before neoadjuvant therapy (n = 26, P = 0.091, P = 0.753, P = 0.905, respectively), but after treament, these immune cells’ dynamics were significantly different between different response group. CD8+ T cell densities were increased in pCR gourp (P = 0.006), but not in non-pCR group (P = 0.389); the densities of Treg were increased in non-pCR gourp (P = 0.0004), but DC were significantly decreased in non-pCR gourp (P = 0.005). After surgery, the TME were also significantly different: patients achieving pCR typically demonstrated high densities of CD8+ T cell, DC and low densities of Tregs (P = 0.0001, P < 0.0001 and P = 0.0004). The immune status of 11th LNs also exhibited significant differences. DC densities were much higher in pCR patients, whereas Treg in the pCR group were significantly lower than those in the non-pCR group (P = 0.0008 and P = 0.003). Furthermore, the densities of DC in the TME showed a moderate positive correlation with DC in 11th LNs (P = 0.0002), while the densities of Tregs in the TME exhibited a moderate negative correlation with DC densities in 11th LNs (P = 0.03). Patients who had high densities of CD8+ T cell in the resection tissues and DC in the LNs, experienced longer DFS (P = 0.048 and P = 0.024).
Conclusion
Immune cells in both pulmonary LNs and the TME collectively influence the remodeling of the NSCLC patient’s TME, thus impacting treatment response and prognosis.
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HER2 mutations are reported to occur in 2%–5% of all cases of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The clinical outcomes in patients with HER2-mutant NSCLC treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) plus platinum-based chemotherapy as 1st line treatment still remain unclear.
Methods
Using the large-scale clinico-genomic database of LC-SCRUM-Asia, the clinico-genomic characteristics and therapeutic outcomes of patients with HER2-mutant NSCLC were investigated.
Results
Of the 15,251 patients with NSCLC enrolled in the LC-SCRUM-Asia database, tumor HER2 mutations were detected in 402 patients (2.6 %). The most common subtype of HER2 mutations was exon 20 in-frame insertions (79 %), followed in frequency by mutations in the tyrosine kinase domain other than Exon20ins (10 %) and mutations in extracellular domains (7 %). NSCLCs harboring HER2 mutations showed a higher tumor mutation burden (TMB) as compared with NSCLCs harboring EGFR mutations or ALK fusions (median: 4.22 vs. 2.54 and 2.52 mutation per megabase, respectively). Of the 402 patients, 268 patients had received platinum-based chemotherapy with ICIs (Chemo-ICI, n = 95) or without ICI (Chemo-alone, n = 173) as 1st line treatment. The progression-free survival (PFS) was significantly longer in the Chemo-ICI group as compared with the Chemo-alone group (median 8.5 vs. 6.3 months; HR [95 %CI]: 0.66 [0.50–0.88]; P < 0.005). Multivariate analysis identified use of ICIs in addition to platinum-based chemotherapy as an independent favorable prognostic factor for PFS. There was no significant difference in the overall survival between the patients of the Chemo-ICI and Chemo-alone groups (median 31.1 vs. 23.3 months; HR [95 %CI]: 0.80 [0.57–1.12], P = 0.20).
Conclusions
Addition of ICIs to platinum-based chemotherapy in 1st line treatment may improve the PFS in patients with HER2-mutant NSCLC. The relatively high TMB might be involved in the prolongation of the PFS in patients with HER2-mutant NSCLC receiving platinum-based chemotherapy with ICIs.
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Many clinical studies showed a synergy of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) and vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitors. We hypothesized afatinib plus bevacizumab exerts clinical potency after developing various osimertinib resistant mechanisms.
Methods
EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer patients were enrolled after osimertinib resistance. Afatinib at 30–40 mg/day and bevacizumab at 15 mg/kg tri-weekly were administered until progression. Plasma/histologic rebiopsied samples after osimertinib failure were analyzed to examine resistant mechanisms: gene alterations/copy-number gain using cancer personalized profiling by deep sequencing.
Results
Between January 2018 and October 2020, 28 patients were enrolled. Response and disease control rates were 17.9 % and 78.6 %, respectively. Median duration of response was 9.0 (range, 4.2–22.3) months. Median progression-free and overall survivals were 2.7 and 9.3 months, respectively. Twenty-eight (100 %) plasma and/or 21 (75 %) histologic rebiopsies identified: 17 (61 %) TP53; 15 (54 %) T790M; 9 (32 %) uncommon EGFR; 9 (32 %) MET; 6 (21 %) C797S; 3 (11 %) BRAF; 2 (7 %) HER2; 2 (7 %) KRAS; and 2 (7 %) PI3K mutations. One (17 %) of 6 C797S patients showed complete response. Three (33 %) of 9 uncommon EGFR-mutated patients achieved radiographic response. Neither 15 T790M-positive nor 6 EGFR downstream signaling mutations: BRAF; KRAS; or PI3K-positive patients responded, but 5 (38 %) of 13 T790M-negative patients responded. Adverse events ≥ grade 3 and incidence ≥ 5 % were: hypertension (29 %); proteinuria (7 %); and diarrhea (7 %). There were neither treatment-related death nor interstitial lung disease.
Conclusions
Selected population could obtain clinical benefit from afatinib plus bevacizumab, based on rebiopsy results after osimertinib resistance.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-05DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2024.107986
Duo Xu , Shun-Qing Liang , Min Su , Haitang Yang , Rémy Bruggmann , Simone Oberhaensli , Zhang Yang , Yanyun Gao , Thomas M. Marti , Wenxiang Wang , Ralph A. Schmid , Yongqian Shu , Patrick Dorn , Ren-Wang Peng
Pleural mesothelioma (PM) is an aggressive cancer with limited treatment options. In particular, the frequent loss of tumor suppressors, a key oncogenic driver of the disease that is therapeutically intractable, has hampered the development of targeted cancer therapies. Here, we interrogate the PM genome using CRISPR-mediated gene editing to systematically uncover PM cell susceptibilities and provide an evidence-based rationale for targeted cancer drug discovery. This analysis has allowed us to identify with high confidence numerous known and novel gene dependencies that are surprisingly highly enriched for non-oncogenic pathways involved in response to various stress stimuli, in particular DNA damage and transcriptional dysregulation. By integrating genomic analysis with a series of in vitro and in vivo functional studies, we validate and prioritize several non-oncogene addictions conferred by CDK7, CHK1, HDAC3, RAD51, TPX2, and UBA1 as targetable vulnerabilities, revealing previously unappreciated aspects of PM biology. Our findings support the growing consensus that stress-responsive non-oncogenic signaling plays a key role in the initiation and progression of PM and provide a functional blueprint for the development of unprecedented targeted therapies to combat this formidable disease.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-05DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2024.107987
Federica Filipello , Hans Blaauwgeers , Birgit Lissenberg-Witte , Andreas Schonau , Claudio Doglioni , Gianluigi Arrigoni , Teodora Radonic , Idris Bahce , Arthur Smit , Chris Dickhoff , Antonio Nuccio , Alessandra Bulotta , Yuko Minami , Masayuki Noguchi , Francesca Ambrosi , Erik Thunnissen
Recognizing non-invasive growth patterns is necessary for correct diagnosis, invasive size determination and pT-stage in resected non-small cell lung carcinoma. Due to iatrogenic collapse after resection, the distinction between adenocarcinoma in-situ (AIS) and invasive adenocarcinoma may be difficult. The aim of this study is to investigate the complex morphology of non-mucinous non-invasive patterns of AIS in resection specimen with iatrogenic collapse, and to relate this to follow-up.
The effects of iatrogenic collapse on the morphology of collapsed AIS were simulated in a mathematical model. Three dimensional related criteria applied in a modified classification, using also cytokeratin 7 and elastin as additional stains, in two independent retrospective cohorts of primary pulmonary adenocarcinomas ≤3 cm resection specimen with available follow-up information.
The model demonstrated that infolding of alveolar walls occurs during iatrogenic collapse and lead to a significant increase in tumor cell heights in maximal collapse areas, compared to less collapsed areas. The morphology of infolded AIS overlaps with patterns described as papillary and acinar adenocarcinoma according to the WHO classification, necessitating an adaptation.
The modified classification incorporates recognition of iatrogenic and biologic collapse, tangential cutting effect true invasion and surrogate markers of invasion i.e. grey zone, covering a multilayering falling short of micropapillary, cribriform and solid alveolar filling growth. The use of elastin and CK7 staining aids in the morphologic recognition of iatrogenic collapsed AIS and the distinction from invasive adenocarcinoma. Out of a total of 70 resection specimens 1 case was originally classified as AIS and 9 were reclassified as iatrogenic collapsed AIS. Patients with collapsed AIS showed a 100 % recurrence-free survival after a mean follow-up time of 69.5 months.
With the current WHO classification, AIS is overdiagnosed as invasive adenocarcinoma due to infolding. The modified classification facilitates the diagnosis of AIS.
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