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Publication Date
1-19-2024
Journal
The Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab demonstrated clinically meaningful benefit in patients with previously treated advanced endometrial carcinoma in Study 111/KEYNOTE-146 (NCT02501096). In these exploratory analyses from this study, we evaluated the associations between clinical outcomes and gene expression signature scores and descriptively summarized response in biomarker subpopulations defined by tumor mutational burden (TMB) and DNA variants for individual genes of interest.
METHODS: Patients with histologically confirmed metastatic endometrial carcinoma received oral lenvatinib 20 mg once daily plus intravenous pembrolizumab 200 mg every 3 weeks for 35 cycles. Archived formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue was obtained from all patients. T-cell-inflamed gene expression profile (Tcell
RESULTS: 93 and 79 patients were included in the RNA-sequencing-evaluable and WES-evaluable populations, respectively. No statistically significant associations were observed between any of the RNA-sequencing signature scores and objective response rate or progression-free survival. Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve values for response ranged from 0.39 to 0.54; all 95% CIs included 0.50. Responses were seen regardless of TMB (≥175 or/exome) and mutation status. There were no correlations between Tcell
CONCLUSIONS: This analysis demonstrated efficacy for lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab regardless of biomarker status. Results from this study do not support clinical utility of the evaluated biomarkers. Further investigation of biomarkers for this regimen is warranted.
Keywords
Female, Humans, Endometrial Neoplasms, Biomarkers, Tumor, RNA, Phenylurea Compounds, Quinolines, Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized, Tumor Biomarkers, Immunotherapy
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Bioinformatics Commons, Biomedical Informatics Commons, Medical Sciences Commons, Obstetrics and Gynecology Commons, Oncology Commons, Women's Health Commons
Comments
Trial registration number: NCT02501096.
Data Availability Statement
PMID: 38242717