Influence of Genomic Landscape on Cancer Immunotherapy for Newly Diagnosed Ovarian Cancer: Biomarker Analyses from the IMagyn050 Randomized Clinical Trial

  • Charles N. Landen
  • , Luciana Molinero
  • , Habib Hamidi
  • , Jalid Sehouli
  • , Austin Miller
  • , Kathleen N. Moore
  • , Cagatay Taskiran
  • , Michael Bookman
  • , Kristina Lindemann
  • , Charles Anderson
  • , Regina Berger
  • , Tashanna Myers
  • , Mario Beiner
  • , Thomas Reid
  • , Els Van Nieuwenhuysen
  • , Andrew Green
  • , Aikou Okamoto
  • , Carol Aghajanian
  • , Premal H. Thaker
  • , Stephanie V. Blank
  • Victor K. Khor, Ching Wei Chang, Yvonne G. Lin, Sandro Pignata

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Abstract

Purpose: To explore whether patients with BRCA1/2-mutated or homologous recombination deficient (HRD) ovarian cancers benefitted from atezolizumab in the phase III IMagyn050 (NCT03038100) trial. Patients and Methods: Patients with newly diagnosed ovarian cancer were randomized to either atezolizumab or placebo with standard chemotherapy and bevacizumab. Programmed deathligand 1 (PD-L1) status of tumor-infiltrating immune cells (IC) was determined centrally (VENTANA SP142 assay). Genomic alterations, including deleterious BRCA1/2 alterations, genomic loss of heterozygosity (gLOH), tumor mutation burden (TMB), and microsatellite instability (MSI), were evaluated using the FoundationOne assay.HRDwas defined as gLOH ≥ 16%, regardless of BRCA1/2 mutation status. Potential associations between progression-free survival (PFS) and genomic biomarkers were evaluated using standard correlation analyses and log-rank of Kaplan-Meier estimates. Results: Among biomarker-evaluable samples, 22% (234/1,050) harbored BRCA1/2 mutations and 46% (446/980) were HRD. Median TMB was low irrespective of BRCA1/2 or HRD. Only 3% (29/1,024) had TMB ≥10 mut/Mb, and 0.3% (3/1,022) were MSIhigh. PFS was better in BRCA2-mutated versus BRCA2-nonmutated tumors and in HRD versus proficient tumors. PD-L1 positivity (≥1% expression on ICs) was associated with HRD but not BRCA1/2 mutations. PFS was not improved by adding atezolizumab in BRCA2-mutated or HRD tumors; there was a trend toward enhanced PFS with atezolizumab inBRCA1-mutated tumors. Conclusions: Mostovariantumorshave lowTMBdespiteBRCA1/ 2mutations orHRD. NeitherBRCA1/2mutation norHRDpredicted enhanced benefit from atezolizumab. This is the first randomized double-blind trial in ovarian cancer demonstrating that genomic instability triggered by BRCA1/2 mutation or HRD is not associated with improved sensitivity to immune checkpoint inhibitors.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1698-1707
Number of pages10
JournalClinical Cancer Research
Volume29
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - May 1 2023

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