In:
Clinical Cancer Research, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Vol. 25, No. 13 ( 2019-07-01), p. 3811-3817
Abstract:
VEGFR2-directed therapy is commonly used to treat metastatic esophagogastric cancer, but disease progresses in most patients within months. Therapeutic resistance is likely mediated in part by co-occurring amplifications of the genes for multiple oncogenic receptor tyrosine kinases (RTK). We therefore tested the efficacy of combined inhibition of VEGFR1-3, PDGFα/β, and FGFR1-3 using nintedanib. Patients and Methods: Patients with metastatic esophagogastric adenocarcinoma and disease progression on first-line chemotherapy were treated with nintedanib 200 mg twice daily. The primary endpoint was progression-free survival (PFS) at 6 months; secondary endpoints included tumor response and safety. Tumor biopsies were profiled by targeted capture next-generation sequencing (NGS) to identify molecular predictors of drug response. Results: The study achieved its primary endpoint; 6 of 32 patients (19%) were progression-free at 6 months. With a median follow-up of 14.5 months among survivors, median overall survival (OS) was 14.2 months [95% confidence interval (CI), 10.8 months–NR]. Nintedanib was well tolerated; grade ≥ 3 toxicities were uncommon and included grade 3 hypertension (15%) and liver enzyme elevation (4%). FGFR2 alterations were identified in 18% of patients but were not predictive of clinical outcome on nintedanib therapy. Alterations in cell-cycle pathway genes were associated with worse median PFS (1.61 months for patients with cell-cycle pathway alterations vs. 2.66 months for patients without, P = 0.019). Conclusions: Nintedanib treatment resulted in modest disease stabilization in patients with metastatic esophagogastric cancer. Alterations in cell-cycle pathway genes and increased global copy-number alteration (CNA) burden warrant further study as prognostic or predictive biomarkers.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1078-0432
,
1557-3265
DOI:
10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-18-3789
Language:
English
Publisher:
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Publication Date:
2019
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