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D'Angelo SP, Araujo DM, Abdul Razak AR, Agulnik M, Attia S, Blay JY, Carrasco Garcia I, Charlson JA, Choy E, Demetri GD, Druta M, Forcade E, Ganjoo KN, Glod J, Keedy VL, Le Cesne A, Liebner DA, Moreno V, Pollack SM, Schuetze SM, Schwartz GK, Strauss SJ, Tap WD, Thistlethwaite F, Valverde Morales CM, Wagner MJ, Wilky BA, McAlpine C, Hudson L, Navenot JM, Wang T, Bai J, Rafail S, Wang R, Sun A, Fernandes L, Van Winkle E, Elefant E, Lunt C, Norry E, Williams D, Biswas S, Van Tine BA. Afamitresgene autoleucel for advanced synovial sarcoma and myxoid round cell liposarcoma (SPEARHEAD-1): an international, open-label, phase 2 trial. Lancet 2024; 403:1460-1471. [PMID: 38554725 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(24)00319-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2023] [Revised: 02/08/2024] [Accepted: 02/16/2024] [Indexed: 04/02/2024]
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BACKGROUND Afamitresgene autoleucel (afami-cel) showed acceptable safety and promising efficacy in a phase 1 trial (NCT03132922). The aim of this study was to further evaluate the efficacy of afami-cel for the treatment of patients with HLA-A*02 and MAGE-A4-expressing advanced synovial sarcoma or myxoid round cell liposarcoma. METHODS SPEARHEAD-1 was an open-label, non-randomised, phase 2 trial done across 23 sites in Canada, the USA, and Europe. The trial included three cohorts, of which the main investigational cohort (cohort 1) is reported here. Cohort 1 included patients with HLA-A*02, aged 16-75 years, with metastatic or unresectable synovial sarcoma or myxoid round cell liposarcoma (confirmed by cytogenetics) expressing MAGE-A4, and who had received at least one previous line of anthracycline-containing or ifosfamide-containing chemotherapy. Patients received a single intravenous dose of afami-cel (transduced dose range 1·0 × 109-10·0 × 109 T cells) after lymphodepletion. The primary endpoint was overall response rate in cohort 1, assessed by a masked independent review committee using Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumours (version 1.1) in the modified intention-to-treat population (all patients who received afami-cel). Adverse events, including those of special interest (cytokine release syndrome, prolonged cytopenia, and neurotoxicity), were monitored and are reported for the modified intention-to-treat population. This trial is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04044768; recruitment is closed and follow-up is ongoing for cohorts 1 and 2, and recruitment is open for cohort 3. FINDINGS Between Dec 17, 2019, and July 27, 2021, 52 patients with cytogenetically confirmed synovial sarcoma (n=44) and myxoid round cell liposarcoma (n=8) were enrolled and received afami-cel in cohort 1. Patients were heavily pre-treated (median three [IQR two to four] previous lines of systemic therapy). Median follow-up time was 32·6 months (IQR 29·4-36·1). Overall response rate was 37% (19 of 52; 95% CI 24-51) overall, 39% (17 of 44; 24-55) for patients with synovial sarcoma, and 25% (two of eight; 3-65) for patients with myxoid round cell liposarcoma. Cytokine release syndrome occurred in 37 (71%) of 52 of patients (one grade 3 event). Cytopenias were the most common grade 3 or worse adverse events (lymphopenia in 50 [96%], neutropenia 44 [85%], leukopenia 42 [81%] of 52 patients). No treatment-related deaths occurred. INTERPRETATION Afami-cel treatment resulted in durable responses in heavily pre-treated patients with HLA-A*02 and MAGE-A4-expressing synovial sarcoma. This study shows that T-cell receptor therapy can be used to effectively target solid tumours and provides rationale to expand this approach to other solid malignancies. FUNDING Adaptimmune.
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- Sandra P D'Angelo
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA; Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA.
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- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA; Ludwig Center at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux-Hôpital Haut-Lévêque, Bordeaux, France
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- Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford Medicine at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Center for Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Institut Gustave Roussy Cancer Center-DITEP, Villejuif, France
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- The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA
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- START Madrid-FJD, Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Diaz, Madrid, Spain
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- Columbia University Vagelos School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- UCL Cancer Institute, University College London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA; Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
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- The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK; University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Adaptimmune, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Adaptimmune, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Schuetze SM, Ballman KV, Heise R, Ganjoo KN, Davis EJ, George S, Burgess MA, Choy E, Shepard DR, Tinoco G, Hirbe A, Kelly CM, Attia S, Deshpande HA, Schwartz GK, Siontis BL, Riedel RF, von Mehren M, Kozlowski E, Chen HX, Astbury C, Rubin BP. A Single Arm Phase 2 Trial of Trametinib in Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma. Clin Cancer Res 2024:735082. [PMID: 38446990 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-23-3817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2023] [Revised: 02/06/2024] [Accepted: 03/04/2024] [Indexed: 03/08/2024]
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PURPOSE Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) is a rare vascular cancer with pathogenic TAZ-CAMTA1 operating as an oncogenic driver through activation of MAPK pathway. Trametinib is an inhibitor of MEK, a critical kinase in the MAPK pathway. We sought to evaluate the effect of trametinib in patients with EHE. PATIENTS AND METHODS A phase 2 trial of trametinib was conducted in patients with locally advanced or metastatic EHE. Eligibility requirements included evidence of tumor progression or presence of EHE-related pain requiring opiates for management prior to enrollment. The primary endpoint was objective response rate (ORR) per RECIST1.1 in cases with TAZ-CAMTA1 confirmed by fusion-FISH. Secondary objectives were to estimate ORR for all patients, median PFS, 2-year OS rate, patient safety, and change in patient-reported global health and pain scores per PROMIS questionnaires. RESULTS 44 patients enrolled and 42 started trametinib. TAZ-CAMTA1 was detected in 27 tumor samples. The ORR was 3.7% (95% CI: 0.094, 19.0), median PFS was 10.4 months (95% CI: 7.1, NA), and 2-year OS rate was 33.3% (95% CI: 19.1, 58.2) in the target population. Median pain intensity and interference scores improved significantly after 4 weeks of trametinib in patients using opiates. Common AEs related to trametinib were rash, fatigue, nausea/vomiting, diarrhea/constipation, alopecia and edema; one Grade 5 ARDS/pneumonitis was related to trametinib. CONCLUSIONS Trametinib was associated with reduction in EHE-related pain and median PFS of more than 6 months providing palliative benefit in patients with advanced EHE, but the trial did not meet the ORR goal.
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- University of California, San Francisco, New York, NY, United States
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- Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States
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- Washington University in St. Louis, saint louis, United States
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- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States
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- Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States
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- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States
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- Sarcoma Alliance for Research through Collaboration, United States
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- National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Cleveland Clinic and Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, OH, United States
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Akshintala S, Mallory NC, Lu Y, Ballman KV, Schuetze SM, Chugh R, Maki RG, Reinke DK, Widemann BC, Kim AR. Outcome of Patients With Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors Enrolled on Sarcoma Alliance for Research Through Collaboration (SARC) Phase II Trials. Oncologist 2023; 28:453-459. [PMID: 36724001 PMCID: PMC10166173 DOI: 10.1093/oncolo/oyac272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2022] [Accepted: 11/30/2022] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Evaluation of prior phase II trials for malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNST) may help develop more suitable trial endpoints in future studies. METHODS We analyzed outcomes of patients with recurrent or unresectable/metastatic MPNST enrolled on prior Sarcoma Alliance for Research through Collaboration (SARC) phase II trials and estimated the progression-free survival (PFS). PFS from SARC006 (NCT00304083), the phase II trial of upfront chemotherapy in chemotherapy naïve patients, was analyzed separately. Impact of baseline enrollment characteristics on PFS was evaluated. RESULTS Sixty-four patients (29 male, 35 female, median age 39 years (range 15-81)) with MPNST were enrolled on 1 of 5 trials of single agent or combination therapy that were determined to be inactive. Patients had received a median of 1 (range 0-5) prior systemic therapy, and most had undergone prior surgery (77%) and radiation (61%). Seventy-three percent had metastatic disease at enrollment. Median PFS was 1.77 months (95% CI, 1.61-3.45), and the PFS rate at 4 months was 15%. Greater number of prior systemic therapies and worse performance status were associated with inferior PFS. There was no significant difference in PFS based on age at enrollment, treatment trial, response criteria, presence of metastatic disease, disease site at enrollment, and prior surgery or radiation. In comparison, on the SARC006 trial the PFS rate at 4 months was 94% in 40 patients. CONCLUSION These data provide a historical baseline PFS that may be used as a comparator in future clinical trials for patients with MPNST.
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- Srivandana Akshintala
- Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY, USA.,Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.,Sarcoma Alliance for Research Through Collaboration, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
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Thiebaud JA, Ravi V, Litwin S, Schuetze SM, Movva S, Agulnik M, Kraft AS, Tetzlaff ED, Somaiah N, von Mehren M. OER-073: A multicenter phase 2 study evaluating the role of pazopanib in angiosarcoma. Cancer 2022; 128:3516-3522. [PMID: 35942596 PMCID: PMC9616178 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.34403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2022] [Revised: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 06/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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BACKGROUND Angiosarcomas are rare mesenchymal sarcomas that can present as primary cutaneous or noncutaneous disease. They express a variety of vascular endothelial growth factor receptors. The authors hypothesized that the treatment of angiosarcoma with pazopanib, a multikinase inhibitor with activity against vascular endothelial growth factor receptors, would result in disease response and prolonged disease stabilization. METHODS This was an open-label, phase 2 trial of pazopanib in patients who had incurable angiosarcoma. The co-primary end points were response according to the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors and progression-free survival (PFS) at 3 months. The starting dose of pazopanib was 800 mg daily. RESULTS Twenty-nine patients were accrued between 2011 and 2018, and 22 patients were evaluable for response. Toxicities were similar to those identified in prior reports. There was one partial response (3%), and the clinical benefit rate (including complete responses, partial responses, and stable disease) was 48%, which was observed more frequently in patients who had cutaneous disease. The median PFS was 14.4 weeks, and the 3-month PFS rate determined by Kaplan-Meier estimate was 54.6% (95% CI, 36.0%-82.9%), meeting the primary study objective. The Kaplan-Meier overall survival estimate was 16.1 months. CONCLUSIONS Pazopanib therapy in patients who had incurable angiosarcoma was associated with meaningful disease control, especially in those who had cutaneous disease with limited objective responses. LAY SUMMARY Angiosarcoma is a rare cancer that can be found on the skin or in internal organs. This study tested pazopanib, an oral targeted medication, to determine its benefit in patients with angiosarcoma who could not undergo the removal of their tumors by surgery. Pazopanib treatment was safe, and no new side effects were reported. The study showed that pazopanib controlled tumor growth in one half of patients at 3 months and was more common in angiosarcomas of the skin; it led to tumor shrinkage in a minority of patients (1 of 29).
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- Julio Alvarenga Thiebaud
- Department of Hematology Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA
- Current affiliation: Sarah Cannon Transplant & Cellular Therapy Program, Methodist Hospital, San Antonio, TX
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- Department of Sarcoma Medical Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Department of Biostatistics, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Department of Hematology Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA
- Current affiliation, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
- Current affiliation: City of Hope Cancer Center, Duarte, CA
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- Univeristy of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, AZ
- Current affiliation University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
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- Department of Hematology Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Sarcoma Medical Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Department of Hematology Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA
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Gounder MM, Razak AA, Somaiah N, Chawla S, Martin-Broto J, Grignani G, Schuetze SM, Vincenzi B, Wagner AJ, Chmielowski B, Jones RL, Riedel RF, Stacchiotti S, Loggers ET, Ganjoo KN, Le Cesne A, Italiano A, Garcia del Muro X, Burgess M, Piperno-Neumann S, Ryan C, Mulcahy MF, Forscher C, Penel N, Okuno S, Elias A, Hartner L, Philip T, Alcindor T, Kasper B, Reichardt P, Lapeire L, Blay JY, Chevreau C, Valverde Morales CM, Schwartz GK, Chen JL, Deshpande H, Davis EJ, Nicholas G, Gröschel S, Hatcher H, Duffaud F, Herráez AC, Beveridge RD, Badalamenti G, Eriksson M, Meyer C, von Mehren M, Van Tine BA, Götze K, Mazzeo F, Yakobson A, Zick A, Lee A, Gonzalez AE, Napolitano A, Dickson MA, Michel D, Meng C, Li L, Liu J, Ben-Shahar O, Van Domelen DR, Walker CJ, Chang H, Landesman Y, Shah JJ, Shacham S, Kauffman MG, Attia S. Selinexor in Advanced, Metastatic Dedifferentiated Liposarcoma: A Multinational, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial. J Clin Oncol 2022; 40:2479-2490. [PMID: 35394800 PMCID: PMC9467680 DOI: 10.1200/jco.21.01829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2021] [Revised: 12/23/2021] [Accepted: 02/08/2022] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Antitumor activity in preclinical models and a phase I study of patients with dedifferentiated liposarcoma (DD-LPS) was observed with selinexor. We evaluated the clinical benefit of selinexor in patients with previously treated DD-LPS whose sarcoma progressed on approved agents. METHODS SEAL was a phase II-III, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Patients age 12 years or older with advanced DD-LPS who had received two-five lines of therapy were randomly assigned (2:1) to selinexor (60 mg) or placebo twice weekly in 6-week cycles (crossover permitted). The primary end point was progression-free survival (PFS). Patients who received at least one dose of study treatment were included for safety analysis (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02606461). RESULTS Two hundred eighty-five patients were enrolled (selinexor, n = 188; placebo, n = 97). PFS was significantly longer with selinexor versus placebo: hazard ratio (HR) 0.70 (95% CI, 0.52 to 0.95; one-sided P = .011; medians 2.8 v 2.1 months), as was time to next treatment: HR 0.50 (95% CI, 0.37 to 0.66; one-sided P < .0001; medians 5.8 v 3.2 months). With crossover, no difference was observed in overall survival. The most common treatment-emergent adverse events of any grade versus grade 3 or 4 with selinexor were nausea (151 [80.7%] v 11 [5.9]), decreased appetite (113 [60.4%] v 14 [7.5%]), and fatigue (96 [51.3%] v 12 [6.4%]). Four (2.1%) and three (3.1%) patients died in the selinexor and placebo arms, respectively. Exploratory RNA sequencing analysis identified that the absence of CALB1 expression was associated with longer PFS with selinexor compared with placebo (median 6.9 v 2.2 months; HR, 0.19; P = .001). CONCLUSION Patients with advanced, refractory DD-LPS showed improved PFS and time to next treatment with selinexor compared with placebo. Supportive care and dose reductions mitigated side effects of selinexor. Prospective validation of CALB1 expression as a predictive biomarker for selinexor in DD-LPS is warranted.
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- Mrinal M. Gounder
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
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- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Division of Medical Oncology, Candiolo Cancer Institute, FPO—IRCCS, Candiolo, Torino, Italy
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- Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Roma, Italy
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- The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA
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- The Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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- Centre Oscar Lambret and Lille University, Lille, France
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- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Northwell Health Physician Partners, New Hyde Park, NY
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- Mannheim University Medical Center, Mannheim, Germany
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- National Center for Tumor Diseases, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- La Timone University Hospital Center and Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France
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- Department of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Sciences, Section of Medical Oncology, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Klinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin III, Hämatologie und Onkologie Klinikum rechts der Isar der TU Muenchen, Marburg, Germany
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- Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; The Oncology Department, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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- The Christie NHS Foundation, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) Germans Trias I Pujol University Hospital, B-ARGO, Barcelona, Spain
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- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
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- Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc, Newton, MA
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- Cindy Y Jiang
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Corresponding author: Rashmi Chugh, MD, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center, C407 MIB SPC 5848, 1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5848, USA. Tel: 734-936-0453; Fax: 734-647-8860;
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Adams S, Othus M, Patel SP, Miller KD, Chugh R, Schuetze SM, Chamberlin MD, Haley BJ, Storniolo AMV, Reddy MP, Anderson SA, Zimmerman CT, O'Dea AP, Mirshahidi HR, Rodon Ahnert J, Brescia FJ, Hahn O, Raymond JM, Biggs DD, Connolly RM, Sharon E, Korde LA, Gray RJ, Mayerson E, Plets M, Blanke CD, Chae YK, Kurzrock R. A Multicenter Phase II Trial of Ipilimumab and Nivolumab in Unresectable or Metastatic Metaplastic Breast Cancer: Cohort 36 of Dual Anti-CTLA-4 and Anti-PD-1 Blockade in Rare Tumors (DART, SWOG S1609). Clin Cancer Res 2021; 28:271-278. [PMID: 34716198 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-21-2182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2021] [Revised: 08/12/2021] [Accepted: 10/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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PURPOSE Metaplastic breast cancer (MpBC) is a rare aggressive subtype that responds poorly to cytotoxics. Median survival is approximately eight months for metastatic disease. We report results for advanced MpBC treated with ipilimumab+nivolumab, a cohort of S1609 for rare cancers (DART: NCT02834013). METHODS Prospective, open-label, multicenter phase II (two-stage) trial of ipilimumab (1mg/kg IV q6weeks) plus nivolumab (240mg IV q2weeks) for advanced MpBC. Primary endpoint was objective response rate (ORR). Secondary endpoints included progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS) and toxicity. RESULTS Overall, 17 evaluable patients enrolled. Median age was 60 years (26-85); median number of prior therapy lines, 2 (0-5). ORR was 18%; 3/17 patients achieved objective responses (1 complete, 2 partial responses) (2 spindle cell, 1 chondromyxoid histology), which are ongoing at 28+, 33+ and 34+ months, respectively. Median PFS and OS were 2 and 12 months, respectively. Altogether, 11 patients (65%) experienced adverse events (AEs), including one grade 5 AE. Eight patients (47%) developed an immune-related AE (irAE); with adrenal insufficiency observed in all three responders. Responses occurred in tumors with low tumor mutational burden, low PD-L1 and absent TILs. CONCLUSION The ipilimumab and nivolumab combination showed no new safety signals and met its primary endpoint with 18% ORR in advanced, chemotherapy-refractory MpBC. All responses are ongoing at >2 to almost 3 years later. The effect of ipilimumab and nivolumab was associated with exceptional responses in a subset of patients versus no activity. This combination warrants further investigation in MpBC, with special attention to understanding mechanism of action, and carefully designed to weigh against the significant risks of irAEs.
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- SWOG Statistical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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- Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
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- Department of Hematology-Oncology, Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center
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- Dayton Physicians LLC-Atrium Hematology Medical Oncology Division
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- Internal Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center
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- Medical Oncology, Medical Oncology Hematology Consultants
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- Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program, National Cancer Institute
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- Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program, National Cancer Institute
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- SWOG Statistics & Data Management Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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- Division of Hematology Oncology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
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- Worldwide Innovative Network (WIN) for Personalized Cancer Therapy, Worldwide Innovative Network (WIN) for Personalized Cancer Therapy
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Jones RL, Herzog TJ, Patel SR, von Mehren M, Schuetze SM, Van Tine BA, Coleman RL, Knoblauch R, Triantos S, Hu P, Shalaby W, McGowan T, Monk BJ, Demetri GD. Cardiac safety of trabectedin monotherapy or in combination with pegylated liposomal doxorubicin in patients with sarcomas and ovarian cancer. Cancer Med 2021; 10:3565-3574. [PMID: 33960681 PMCID: PMC8178483 DOI: 10.1002/cam4.3903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2020] [Revised: 02/15/2021] [Accepted: 03/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Background As with other alkylating agents, cardiac dysfunction can occur with trabectedin therapy for advanced soft tissue sarcomas (STS) or recurrent ovarian cancer (ROC) where treatment options for advanced disease are still limited. Cardiac safety for trabectedin monotherapy (T) for STS or in combination with pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (T+PLD) for ROC was evaluated in this retrospective postmarketing regulatory commitment. Methods Patient data for multiple cardiac‐related treatment‐emergent adverse events (cTEAEs) were evaluated in pooled analyses of ten phase 2 trials, one phase 3 trial in STS (n = 982), and two phase 3 trials in ROC (n = 1231). Results Multivariate analyses on pooled trabectedin data revealed that cardiovascular medical history (risk ratio [RR (95% CI)]: 1.90 [1.24‐2.91]; p = 0.003) and age ≥65 years (RR [95% CI]: 1.78 [1.12‐2.83]; p = 0.014) were associated with increased risk for cTEAEs. Multivariate analyses showed increased risk of experiencing cTEAEs with T+PLD compared to PLD monotherapy (RR [95% CI]: 2.70 [1.75‐4.17]; p < 0.0001) and with history of prior cardiac medication (RR [95% CI]: 1.88 [1.16‐3.05]; p = 0.010). Conclusions For patients with STS or ROC who still have limited treatment options, trabectedin may be initiated after carefully considering benefit versus risk. Trial Registration (ClinicalTrials.gov): NCT01343277; NCT00113607; NCT01846611.
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- Robin L Jones
- Sarcoma Unit, Royal Marsden Hospital/Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- University of Cincinnati Cancer Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Sarcoma Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Raritan, NJ, USA
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- Medical Group Oncology, Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC, Horsham, PA, USA
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- Medical Group Oncology, Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC, Horsham, PA, USA
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- Arizona Oncology (US Oncology Network), University of Arizona College of Medicine, and Creighton University School of Medicine at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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- Sarcoma Center, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), Harvard Medical School and Ludwig Center at Harvard, Boston, MA, USA
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Gounder M, Abdul Razak AR, Gilligan AM, Leong H, Ma X, Somaiah N, Chawla SP, Martin-Broto J, Grignani G, Schuetze SM, Vincenzi B, Wagner AJ, Chmielowski B, Jones RL, Shah J, Shacham S, Kauffman M, Riedel RF, Attia S. Health-related quality of life and pain with selinexor in patients with advanced dedifferentiated liposarcoma. Future Oncol 2021; 17:2923-2939. [PMID: 33855868 PMCID: PMC9344436 DOI: 10.2217/fon-2021-0284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Objective: Compare health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of selinexor versus placebo in patients with dedifferentiated liposarcoma. Materials & methods: HRQoL was assessed at baseline and day 1 of each cycle using the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer 30-item core quality of life questionnaire. Results were reported from baseline to day 169 (where exposure to treatment was maximized while maintaining adequate sample size). Results: Pain scores worsened for placebo versus selinexor across all postbaseline visits, although differences in HRQoL at some visits were not significant. Other domains did not exhibit significant differences between arms; however, scores in both arms deteriorated over time. Conclusion: Patients treated with selinexor reported lower rates and slower worsening of pain compared with patients who received placebo. The goal of this study was to compare the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients with advanced unresectable dedifferentiated liposarcoma treated with selinexor compared with those treated with placebo. HRQoL was measured prior to treatment initiation and at the first day of each cycle of their treatment using the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer 30-item core quality of life questionnaire. Pain scores worsened for placebo compared with selinexor across all visits after treatment, but differences at some visits were not significant. Other domains did not exhibit significant differences between arms; however, scores in both arms worsened over time reflecting the progressive disease burden in this patient population. As pain is one of the most devastating symptoms associated with advanced and progressing cancers, the significant reduction in pain in the selinexor arm, according to patient perception, represent a relevant added value of this drug in dedifferentiated liposarcoma.
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- Mrinal Gounder
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, NY 10021, USA
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- Karyopharm Therapeutics, Newton, MA 02459, USA
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- Karyopharm Therapeutics, Newton, MA 02459, USA
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- Department of Sarcoma Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Sarcoma Oncology Center, Santa Monica, CA 90403, USA
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- Institute of Biomedicine Research (IBIS)/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, Virgen del Rocio University Hospital, Calle Antonio Maura Montaner, 41013, Sevilla, Spain
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- Division of Medical Oncology, Candiolo Cancer Institute, FPO-IRCCS, 10060, Candiolo (TO), Italy
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Policlinico Universitario Campus, Bio-Medico, Via Álvaro del Portillo, 200, 00128, Roma, Italy
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Division of Hematology-Oncology, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
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- The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust & The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SM2 5PT, UK
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- Karyopharm Therapeutics, Newton, MA 02459, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA
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Somaiah N, Van Tine BA, Wahlquist AE, Milhem MM, Hill EG, Garrett-Mayer E, Armeson KE, Schuetze SM, Meyer CF, Reuben DY, Elias AD, Read WL, Chawla SP, Kraft AS. A randomized, open-label, phase 2, multicenter trial of gemcitabine with pazopanib or gemcitabine with docetaxel in patients with advanced soft-tissue sarcoma. Cancer 2021; 127:894-904. [PMID: 33231866 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.33216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2020] [Revised: 08/10/2020] [Accepted: 08/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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BACKGROUND Therapeutic options for patients with advanced soft-tissue sarcoma (STS) are limited. The goal of the current phase 2 study was to examine the clinical activity and safety of the combination of gemcitabine plus pazopanib, a multityrosine kinase inhibitor with activity in STS. METHODS The current randomized, phase 2 trial enrolled patients with advanced nonadipocytic STS who had received prior anthracycline-based therapy. Patients were assigned 1:1 to receive gemcitabine at a dose of 1000 mg/m2 on days 1 and 8 with pazopanib at a dose of 800 mg daily (G+P) or gemcitabine at a dose of 900 mg/m2 on days 1 and 8 and docetaxel at a dose of 100 mg/m2 on day 8 (G+T) every 3 weeks. Crossover was allowed at the time of disease progression. The study used a noncomparative statistical design based on the precision of 95% confidence intervals for reporting the primary endpoints of median progression-free survival (PFS) and rate of grade ≥3 adverse events (AEs) for these 2 regimens based on the intent-to-treat patient population (AEs were graded using version 4.0 of the National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events). RESULTS A total of 90 patients were enrolled: 45 patients on each treatment arm. The median PFS was 4.1 months for each arm (P = .3, log-rank test). The best overall response of stable disease or better (complete response + partial response + stable disease) was the same for both treatment arms (64% for both the G+T and G+P arms). The rate of related grade ≥3 AEs was 82% for the G+T arm and 78% for the G+P arm. Related grade ≥3 AEs occurring in ≥10% of patients in the G+T and G+P arms were anemia (36% and 20%, respectively), fatigue (29% and 13%, respectively), thrombocytopenia (53% and 49%, respectively), neutropenia (20% and 49%, respectively), lymphopenia (13% and 11%, respectively), and hypertension (2% and 20%, respectively). CONCLUSIONS The data from the current study have demonstrated the safety and efficacy of G+P as an alternative to G+T for patients with nonadipocytic STS.
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- Neeta Somaiah
- Department of Sarcoma Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Medicine, Sarcoma Program Director, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
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- Chief Section of Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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- Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
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- Center for Research and Analytics, American Society of Clinical Oncology, Alexandria, Virginia
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- Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
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- Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Colorado Comprehensive Cancer Center, Aurora, Colorado
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, , Emory Clinic, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Sarcoma Oncology Research Center, Santa Monica, California
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, Arizona
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Cobain EF, Wu YM, Vats P, Chugh R, Worden F, Smith DC, Schuetze SM, Zalupski MM, Sahai V, Alva A, Schott AF, Caram MEV, Hayes DF, Stoffel EM, Jacobs MF, Kumar-Sinha C, Cao X, Wang R, Lucas D, Ning Y, Rabban E, Bell J, Camelo-Piragua S, Udager AM, Cieslik M, Lonigro RJ, Kunju LP, Robinson DR, Talpaz M, Chinnaiyan AM. Assessment of Clinical Benefit of Integrative Genomic Profiling in Advanced Solid Tumors. JAMA Oncol 2021; 7:525-533. [PMID: 33630025 PMCID: PMC7907987 DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.7987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Question What is the clinical utility of genomic profiling for patients with advanced solid tumors? Findings In this cohort study of 1015 patients who underwent integrative genomic profiling, a high rate of pathogenic germline variants and a subset of patients who derive substantial clinical benefit from sequencing information were identified. Meaning These findings support (1) directed germline testing for inherited cancer predisposition in all patients with advanced cancer and (2) use of integrative genomic profiling as a component of standard of care for patients with cancer of unknown origin and other rare malignant neoplasms. Importance Use of next-generation sequencing (NGS) to identify clinically actionable genomic targets has been incorporated into routine clinical practice in the management of advanced solid tumors; however, the clinical utility of this testing remains uncertain. Objective To determine which patients derived the greatest degree of clinical benefit from NGS profiling. Design, Setting, and Participants Patients in this cohort study underwent fresh tumor biopsy and blood sample collection for genomic profiling of paired tumor and normal DNA (whole-exome or targeted-exome capture with analysis of 1700 genes) and tumor transcriptome (RNA) sequencing. Somatic and germline genomic alterations were annotated and classified according to degree of clinical actionability. Results were returned to treating oncologists. Data were collected from May 1, 2011, to February 28, 2018, and analyzed from May 1, 2011, to April 30, 2020. Main Outcomes and Measures Patients’ subsequent therapy and treatment response were extracted from the medical record to determine clinical benefit rate from NGS-directed therapy at 6 months and exceptional responses lasting 12 months or longer. Results During the study period, NGS was attempted on tumors from 1138 patients and was successful in 1015 (89.2%) (MET1000 cohort) (538 men [53.0%]; mean [SD] age, 57.7 [13.3] years). Potentially clinically actionable genomic alterations were discovered in 817 patients (80.5%). Of these, 132 patients (16.2%) received sequencing-directed therapy, and 49 had clinical benefit (37.1%). Exceptional responses were observed in 26 patients (19.7% of treated patients). Pathogenic germline variants (PGVs) were identified in 160 patients (15.8% of cohort), including 49 PGVs (4.8% of cohort) with therapeutic relevance. For 55 patients with carcinoma of unknown primary origin, NGS identified the primary site in 28 (50.9%), and sequencing-directed therapy in 13 patients resulted in clinical benefit in 7 instances (53.8%), including 5 exceptional responses. Conclusions and Relevance The high rate of therapeutically relevant PGVs identified across diverse cancer types supports a recommendation for directed germline testing in all patients with advanced cancer. The high frequency of therapeutically relevant somatic and germline findings in patients with carcinoma of unknown primary origin and other rare cancers supports the use of comprehensive NGS profiling as a component of standard of care for these disease entities.
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- Erin F Cobain
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.,Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.,Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.,Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.,Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.,Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.,Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.,Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.,Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.,Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.,Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.,Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Kasper B, Achee A, Schuster K, Wilson R, van Oortmerssen G, Gladdy RA, Hemming ML, Huang P, Ingham M, Jones RL, Pollack SM, Reinke D, Sanfilippo R, Schuetze SM, Somaiah N, Van Tine BA, Wilky B, Okuno S, Trent J. Unmet Medical Needs and Future Perspectives for Leiomyosarcoma Patients-A Position Paper from the National LeioMyoSarcoma Foundation (NLMSF) and Sarcoma Patients EuroNet (SPAEN). Cancers (Basel) 2021; 13:886. [PMID: 33672607 PMCID: PMC7924026 DOI: 10.3390/cancers13040886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2021] [Revised: 02/11/2021] [Accepted: 02/15/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
As leiomyosarcoma patients are challenged by the development of metastatic disease, effective systemic therapies are the cornerstone of outcome. However, the overall activity of the currently available conventional systemic treatments and the prognosis of patients with advanced or metastatic disease are still poor, making the treatment of this patient group challenging. Therefore, in a joint effort together with patient networks and organizations, namely Sarcoma Patients EuroNet (SPAEN), the international network of sarcoma patients organizations, and the National LeioMyoSarcoma Foundation (NLMSF) in the United States, we aim to summarize state-of-the-art treatments for leiomyosarcoma patients in order to identify knowledge gaps and current unmet needs, thereby guiding the community to design innovative clinical trials and basic research and close these research gaps. This position paper arose from a leiomyosarcoma research meeting in October 2020 hosted by the NLMSF and SPAEN.
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- Bernd Kasper
- Mannheim University Medical Center, University of Heidelberg, 68167 Mannheim, Germany
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- National LeioMyoSarcoma Foundation (NLMSF), Denver, CO 80222, USA;
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- Sarcoma Patients EuroNet, SPAEN, 61200 Wölfersheim, Germany; (K.S.); (R.W.); (G.v.O.)
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- Sarcoma Patients EuroNet, SPAEN, 61200 Wölfersheim, Germany; (K.S.); (R.W.); (G.v.O.)
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- Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON M5G 1XS, Canada;
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- Institute of Cancer Research, London SM2 5NG, UK; (P.H.); (R.L.J.)
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10032, USA;
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- Institute of Cancer Research, London SM2 5NG, UK; (P.H.); (R.L.J.)
- Royal Marsden Hospital, London SW3 6JJ, UK
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- Northwestern Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA;
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- Sarcoma Alliance for Research through Collaboration (SARC), Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA;
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- Michigan Medicine Sarcoma Clinic, Rogel Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA;
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- Department of Sarcoma Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Care Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA;
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- Barnes and Jewish Hospital, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA;
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- Department of Sarcoma Medical Oncology, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO 80045, USA;
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- Division of Medical Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA;
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA;
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von Mehren M, George S, Heinrich MC, Schuetze SM, Yap JT, Yu JQ, Abbott A, Litwin S, Crowley J, Belinsky M, Janeway KA, Hornick JL, Flieder DB, Chugh R, Rink L, Van den Abbeele AD. Linsitinib (OSI-906) for the Treatment of Adult and Pediatric Wild-Type Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors, a SARC Phase II Study. Clin Cancer Res 2020; 26:1837-1845. [PMID: 31792037 PMCID: PMC7856429 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-19-1069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2019] [Revised: 07/03/2019] [Accepted: 11/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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PURPOSE Most gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) have activating mutations of KIT, PDGFRA, or uncommonly BRAF. Fifteen percent of adult and 85% of pediatric GISTs are wild type (WT), commonly having high expression of IGF-1R and loss of succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) complex function. We tested the efficacy of linsitinib, an oral TKI IGF-1R inhibitor, in patients with WT GIST. PATIENTS AND METHODS A multicenter phase II trial of linsitinib was conducted. The primary endpoint was objective response rate. Secondary endpoints were clinical benefit rate: complete response, partial response, and stable disease (SD) ≥ 9 months, and quantitative 2[18F]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) metabolic response (MR) at week 8. Serum levels for glucose, insulin, IGF-1R ligand IGF1, and binding proteins were obtained to explore correlations to patient outcomes and FDG-PET results. RESULTS Twenty patients were accrued in a 6-month period. Grade 3-4 toxicities possibly related to linsitinib were uncommon (8.5%). No objective responses were seen. Clinical benefit rate (CBR) at 9 months was 40%. Intense FDG uptake was observed at baseline, with partial MR of 12% and stable metabolic disease of 65% at week 8; these patients had RECIST 1.1 SD as their best response. Progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival Kaplan-Meier estimates at 9 months were 52% and 80%, respectively. SDHA/B loss determined by IHC was seen in 35% and 88% of cases, respectively. CONCLUSIONS Linsitinib is well tolerated in patients with WT GIST. Although the 9-month CBR was 40%, and PFS at 9 months was 52%, no objective responses were observed. Rapid accrual to this study demonstrates that clinical trials of experimental agents in selected subtypes of GIST are feasible.
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- Portland VA Health Care System and OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, Portland, Oregon
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Cancer Research and Biostatistics, Seattle, Washington
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Brigham Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Sarcoma Alliance for Research through Collaboration, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Brigham Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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Keung EZ, Burgess M, Salazar R, Parra ER, Rodrigues-Canales J, Bolejack V, Van Tine BA, Schuetze SM, Attia S, Riedel RF, Hu J, Okuno SH, Priebat DA, Movva S, Davis LE, Reed DR, Reuben A, Roland CL, Reinke D, Lazar AJ, Wang WL, Wargo JA, Tawbi HA. Correlative Analyses of the SARC028 Trial Reveal an Association Between Sarcoma-Associated Immune Infiltrate and Response to Pembrolizumab. Clin Cancer Res 2020; 26:1258-1266. [PMID: 31900276 PMCID: PMC7731262 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-19-1824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2019] [Revised: 09/17/2019] [Accepted: 12/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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PURPOSE We recently reported a 17.5% objective RECIST 1.1 response rate in a phase II study of pembrolizumab in patients with advanced sarcoma (SARC028). The majority of responses occurred in undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma (UPS) and dedifferentiated liposarcoma (DDLPS). We sought to determine whether we can identify immune features that correlate with clinical outcomes from tumor tissues obtained pre- and on-treatment. PATIENTS AND METHODS Pretreatment (n = 78) and 8-week on-treatment (n = 68) tumor biopsies were stained for PD-L1 and multiplex immunofluorescence panels. The density of positive cells was quantified to determine associations with anti-PD-1 response. RESULTS Patients that responded to pembrolizumab were more likely to have higher densities of activated T cells (CD8+ CD3+ PD-1+) and increased percentage of tumor-associated macrophages (TAM) expressing PD-L1 pre-treatment compared with non-responders. Pre-treatment tumors from responders also exhibited higher densities of effector memory cytotoxic T cells and regulatory T cells compared with non-responders. In addition, higher density of cytotoxic tumor-infiltrating T cells at baseline correlated with a better progression-free survival (PFS). CONCLUSIONS We show that quantitative assessments of CD8+ CD3+ PD-1+ T cells, percentage of TAMs expressing PD-L1, and other T-cell densities correlate with sarcoma response to pembrolizumab and improved PFS. Our findings support that multiple cell types present at the start of treatment may enhance tumor regression following anti-PD-1 therapy in specific advanced sarcomas. Efforts to confirm the activity of pembrolizumab in an expansion cohort of patients with UPS/DDLPS are underway.
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- Emily Z Keung
- Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri
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- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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- University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Washington Cancer Institute at Medstar Washington Hospital Center, Washington DC
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- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon
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- Department of Interdisciplinary Cancer Management and Sarcoma Department, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Thoracic Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- SARC (Sarcoma Alliance for Research through Collaboration), Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
- Department of Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
- Department of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
- Department of Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
- Department of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
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Siontis BL, McHugh JB, Roberts E, Zhao L, Thomas DG, Owen D, Baker LH, Biermann JS, Schuetze SM, Chugh R. Differential Outcomes and Biologic Markers of Radiation-Associated vs. Sporadic Osteosarcoma: A Single-Institution Experience. Front Oncol 2020; 9:1523. [PMID: 32039013 PMCID: PMC6987384 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2019.01523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2019] [Accepted: 12/18/2019] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Background: Radiation-associated osteosarcoma (RAO) is a rare, life-threatening complication from radiation. Many physicians presume RAO has a worse prognosis than sporadic osteosarcoma (SO), although limited objective data exist. We conducted a retrospective study comparing these entities. Methods: We identified adults treated at our institution with osteosarcoma (1990-2016) and categorized tumors as SO or RAO based on location within a prior radiation field. We extracted data on demographics, treatment and primary malignancy and examined available tumor samples for MTA-1 and ezrin using immunohistochemistry (IHC). Results: Of 159 identified patients, 28 had RAO, diagnosed at a median interval from radiation of 11.5 years (1.5-28 years). Median follow-up was 2.8 years (0.1-19.6 years). Median progression free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were not significantly different in the small population of patients with metastases, SO (n = 20) vs. RAO (n = 6): PFS 10.3 months vs. 4.8 months (p = 0.45) and OS 15.6 months vs. 6.1 months (p = 0.96), respectively. For the larger group with localized disease, median relapse-free survival (RFS) and OS were significantly different, NR vs. 12.2 months (p < 0.001) and NR vs. 27.6 months (p = 0.001) in SO (n = 111) vs. RAO (n = 22), respectively. On IHC, there were significant differences in distribution of high, intermediate or low MTA-1 (p = 0.015) and ezrin (p = 0.002) between RAO and SO tumors. Conclusions: Patients with metastases at diagnosis fared poorly irrespective of prior radiation. RAO patients with localized disease had worse outcomes without detectable differences in therapy rendered or treatment effect in resected specimens. Higher expression of MTA-1 in RAO patients may suggest an underlying difference in tumor biology to explain differences in outcomes.
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- Brittany L Siontis
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Biostatistics Department, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Biostatistics Department, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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Jones RL, Demetri GD, Schuetze SM, Milhem M, Elias A, Van Tine BA, Hamm J, McCarthy S, Wang G, Parekh T, Knoblauch R, Hensley ML, Maki RG, Patel S, von Mehren M. Efficacy and tolerability of trabectedin in elderly patients with sarcoma: subgroup analysis from a phase III, randomized controlled study of trabectedin or dacarbazine in patients with advanced liposarcoma or leiomyosarcoma. Ann Oncol 2019; 29:1995-2002. [PMID: 30084934 DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdy253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Background Treatment options for soft tissue sarcoma (STS) patients aged ≥65 years (elderly) can be limited by concerns regarding the increased risk of toxicity associated with standard systemic therapies. Trabectedin has demonstrated improved disease control in a phase III trial (ET743-SAR-3007) of patients with advanced liposarcoma or leiomyosarcoma after failure of anthracycline-based chemotherapy. Since previous retrospective analyses have suggested that trabectedin has similar safety and efficacy outcomes regardless of patient age, we carried out a subgroup analysis of the safety and efficacy observed in elderly patients enrolled in this trial. Patients and methods Patients were randomized 2 : 1 to trabectedin (n = 384) or dacarbazine (n = 193) administered intravenously every-3-weeks. The primary end point was overall survival (OS); secondary end points were progression-free survival (PFS), time-to-progression, objective response rate (ORR), duration of response, symptom severity, and safety. A post hoc analysis was conducted in the elderly patient subgroup. Results Among 131 (trabectedin = 94; dacarbazine = 37) elderly patients, disease characteristics were well-balanced and consistent with those of the total study population. Treatment exposure was longer in patients treated with trabectedin versus dacarbazine (median four versus two cycles, respectively), with a significantly higher proportion receiving prolonged therapy (≥6 cycles) in the trabectedin arm (43% versus 23%, respectively; P = 0.04). Elderly patients treated with trabectedin showed significantly improved PFS [4.9 versus 1.5 months, respectively; hazard ratio (HR)=0.40; P = 0.0002] but no statistically significant improvement in OS (15.1 versus 8.0 months, respectively; HR = 0.72; P = 0.18) or ORR (9% versus 3%, respectively; P = 0.43). The safety profile for elderly trabectedin-treated patients was comparable to that of the overall trabectedin-treated study population. Conclusions This subgroup analysis of the elderly population of ET743-SAR-3007 suggests that elderly patients with STS and good performance status can expect clinical benefit from trabectedin similar to that observed in younger patients. Trial registration www.clinicaltrials.gov, NCT01343277.
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- R L Jones
- Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle
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- Center for Sarcoma and Bone Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Ludwig Center at Harvard, Boston
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- University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City
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- University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora
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- Division of Oncology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis
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- Norton Cancer Institute, Louisville
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- Clinical Oncology, Janssen Research and Development, Raritan
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- Clinical Biostatistics, Janssen Research and Development, Raritan
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- Clinical Oncology, Janssen Research and Development, Raritan
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- Clinical Oncology, Janssen Research and Development, Raritan
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- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York
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- Monter Cancer Center, Northwell Health, Lake Success; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor
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- Department of Sarcoma Medical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
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- Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, USA.
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Chawla S, Blay JY, Rutkowski P, Le Cesne A, Reichardt P, Gelderblom H, Grimer RJ, Choy E, Skubitz K, Seeger L, Schuetze SM, Henshaw R, Dai T, Jandial D, Palmerini E. Denosumab in patients with giant-cell tumour of bone: a multicentre, open-label, phase 2 study. Lancet Oncol 2019; 20:1719-1729. [PMID: 31704134 DOI: 10.1016/s1470-2045(19)30663-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2019] [Revised: 07/25/2019] [Accepted: 08/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND Giant-cell tumour of bone (GCTB) is a rare, locally aggressive osteoclastogenic stromal tumour of the bone. This phase 2 study aimed to assess the safety and activity of denosumab in patients with surgically salvageable or unsalvageable GCTB. METHODS In this multicentre, open-label, phase 2 study done at 30 sites in 12 countries we enrolled adults and skeletally mature adolescents (aged ≥12 years) weighing at least 45 kg with histologically confirmed and radiographically measurable GCTB, Karnofsky performance status 50% or higher (Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group status 0, 1, or 2), and measurable active disease within 1 year of study enrolment. Patients had surgically unsalvageable GCTB (cohort 1), had surgically salvageable GCTB with planned surgery expected to result in severe morbidity (cohort 2), or were enrolled from a previous study of denosumab for GCTB (cohort 3). Patients received 120 mg subcutaneous denosumab once every 4 weeks during the treatment phase, with loading doses (120 mg subcutaneously) administered on study days 8 and 15 to patients in cohorts 1 and 2 (patients in cohort 3 did not receive loading doses). The primary endpoint was safety in terms of the type, frequency, and severity of adverse events; secondary endpoints included time to disease progression from cohort 1 and the proportion of patients without surgery at month 6 for cohort 2. The safety analysis set included all enrolled patients who received at least one dose of denosumab. This study is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT00680992, and has been completed. FINDINGS Between Sept 9, 2008, and Feb 25, 2016, 532 patients were enrolled: 267 in cohort 1, 253 in cohort 2, and 12 in cohort 3. At data cutoff on Feb 24, 2017, median follow-up was 58·1 months (IQR 34·0-74·4) in the overall patient population, and 65·8 months (40·9-82·4) in cohort 1, 53·4 months (28·2-64·1) in cohort 2, and 76·4 months (61·2-76·5) in cohort 3. During the treatment phase, the most common grade 3 or worse adverse events were hypophosphataemia (24 [5%] of 526 patients), osteonecrosis of the jaw (17 [3%], pain in extremity (12 [2%]), and anaemia (11 [2%]). Serious adverse events were reported in 138 (26%) of 526 patients; the most common were osteonecrosis of the jaw (17 [3%]), anaemia (6 [1%]), bone giant cell tumour (6 [1%]), and back pain (5 [1%]). 28 (5%) patients had positively adjudicated osteonecrosis of the jaw, four (1%) had atypical femur fracture, and four (1%) had hypercalcaemia occurring 30 days after denosumab discontinuation. There were four cases (1%) of sarcomatous transformation, consistent with historical data. Ten (2%) treatment-emergent deaths occurred (two of which were considered treatment-related; bone sarcoma in cohort 2 and sarcoma in cohort 1). Median time to progression or recurrence for patients in cohort 1 during the first treatment phase was not reached (28 [11%] of 262 patients had progression or recurrence). 227 (92%; 95% CI 87-95) of 248 patients who received at least one dose of denosumab in cohort 2 had no surgery in the first 6 months of the study. INTERPRETATION The types and frequencies of adverse events were consistent with the known safety profile of denosumab, which showed long-term disease control for patients with GCTB with unresectable and resectable tumours. Our results suggest that the overall risk to benefit ratio for denosumab treatment in patients with GCTB remains favourable. FUNDING Amgen.
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- Sant Chawla
- Sarcoma Oncology Center, Santa Monica, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Centre Léon Bérard Cancer Center & Université Claude Bernard Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Department of Soft Tissue/Bone Sarcoma and Melanoma, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute-Oncology Center, Warsaw, Poland
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- Medical Oncology, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
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- Department of Oncology and Palliative Care, Helios Klinikum Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
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- Division of Hematology & Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery (Orthopedic Oncology), Medstar Georgetown Orthopedic Institute and Washington Cancer Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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- Amgen Inc, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA
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- Chemotherapy Unit, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli/Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
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Schuetze SM, Bolejack V, Thomas DG, von Mehren M, Patel S, Samuels B, Choy E, D'Amato G, Staddon AP, Ganjoo KN, Chow WA, Rushing DA, Forscher CA, Priebat DA, Loeb DM, Chugh R, Okuno S, Reinke DK, Baker LH. Association of Dasatinib With Progression-Free Survival Among Patients With Advanced Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors Resistant to Imatinib. JAMA Oncol 2019; 4:814-820. [PMID: 29710216 DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2018.0601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Importance Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are life-threatening when metastatic or not amenable to surgical removal. In a few patients with advanced GISTs refractory to imatinib mesylate, treatment with sunitinib malate followed by regorafenib provides tumor control; however, additional active treatments are needed for most patients. Objective To evaluate the 6-month progression-free survival (PFS), tumor objective response, and overall survival rates in patients with GISTs treated with dasatinib. Design, Setting, and Participants This single-arm clinical trial used a Bayesian design to enroll patients 13 years or older with measurable imatinib-refractory metastatic GISTs treated at 14 sarcoma referral centers from June 1, 2008, through December 31, 2009. A control group was not included. Patients were followed up for survival for a minimum of 5 years from date of enrollment. Tumor imaging using computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging was performed every 8 weeks for the first 24 weeks and every 12 weeks thereafter. Tumor response was assessed by local site using the Choi criteria. Treatment was continued until tumor progression, unacceptable toxic effects after reduction in drug dose, or patient or physician decision. Archival tumor tissue was evaluated for expression of the proto-oncogene tyrosine-protein kinase Src (SRC), phosphorylated SRC (pSRC), and succinate dehydrogenase complex iron sulfur subunit B (SDHB) proteins and for mutation in the V-Kit Hardy-Zuckerman 4 feline sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KIT) and platelet-derived growth factor receptor α (PDGFRA) genes. Data analysis was performed from May 19, 2017, through December 20, 2017. Interventions Dasatinib, 70 mg orally twice daily. Main Outcomes and Measures The primary end point was the 6-month PFS estimate using greater than 30% as evidence of an active drug and less than 10% as evidence of inactive treatment. Results In this study, 50 patients were enrolled (median age, 60 years; age range, 19-78 years; 31 [62%] male and 19 [38%] female; 41 [82%] white), and 48 were evaluable for response. The estimated 6-month PFS rate was 29% in the overall population and 50% in a subset of 14 patients with pSRC in GISTs. Objective tumor response was observed in 25%, including 1 patient with an imatinib-resistant mutation in PDGFRA exon 18. Conclusions and Relevance Dasatinib may have activity in a subset of patients with imatinib-resistant GISTs. Further study is needed to determine whether pSRC is a prognostic biomarker.
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- Scott M Schuetze
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Hematology/Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Sarcoma Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
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- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
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- Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia
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- Department of Medicine, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford, California
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- Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California
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- Department of Pediatrics, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Sarcoma Alliance for Research Through Collaboration, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Chugh R, Griffith KA, Davis EJ, Thomas DG, Zavala JD, Metko G, Brockstein B, Undevia SD, Stadler WM, Schuetze SM. Correction to: Doxorubicin plus the IGF-1R antibody cixutumumab in soft tissue sarcoma: a phase I study using the TITE-CRM model. Ann Oncol 2019; 30:1405. [PMID: 30726873 PMCID: PMC7360153 DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdy557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- S M Schuetze
- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Michegan, Ann Arbor, USA
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Siontis BL, Chugh R, Schuetze SM. The potential of emerging therapeutics for epithelioid sarcoma. Expert Opin Orphan Drugs 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/21678707.2017.1405805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Brittany L. Siontis
- Hematology/Oncology Fellow, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Davis EJ, Wu YM, Robinson D, Schuetze SM, Baker LH, Athanikar J, Cao X, Kunju LP, Chinnaiyan AM, Chugh R. Next generation sequencing of extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma. Oncotarget 2017; 8:21770-21777. [PMID: 28423517 PMCID: PMC5400622 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.15568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2016] [Accepted: 01/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma (EMC) is an indolent translocation-associated soft tissue sarcoma with a high propensity for metastases. Using a clinical sequencing approach, we genomically profiled patients with metastatic EMC to elucidate the molecular biology and identify potentially actionable mutations. We also evaluated potential predictive factors of benefit to sunitinib, a multi-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor with reported activity in a subset of EMC patients. Between January 31, 2012 and April 15, 2016, six patients with EMC participated in the clinical sequencing research study. High quality DNA and RNA was isolated and matched normal samples underwent comprehensive next generation sequencing (whole or OncoSeq capture exome of tumor and normal, tumor PolyA+ and capture transcriptome). The expression levels of sunitinib targeted-kinases were measured by transcriptome sequencing for KDR, PDGFRA/B, KIT, RET, FLT1, and FLT4. The previously reported EWSR1-NR4A3 translocation was identified in all patient tumors; however, other recurring genomic abnormalities were not detected. RET expression was significantly greater in patients with EMC relative to other types of sarcomas except for liposarcoma (p<0.0002). The folate receptor was overexpressed in two patients. Our study demonstrated that similar to other translocation-associated sarcomas, the mutational profile of metastatic EMC is limited beyond the pathognomonic translocation. The clinical significance of RET expression in EMC should be explored. Additional pre-clinical investigations of EMC may help elucidate molecular mechanisms contributing to EMC tumorigenesis that could be translated to the clinical setting.
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- Elizabeth J Davis
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Tawbi HA, Burgess M, Bolejack V, Van Tine BA, Schuetze SM, Hu J, D'Angelo S, Attia S, Riedel RF, Priebat DA, Movva S, Davis LE, Okuno SH, Reed DR, Crowley J, Butterfield LH, Salazar R, Rodriguez-Canales J, Lazar AJ, Wistuba II, Baker LH, Maki RG, Reinke D, Patel S. Pembrolizumab in advanced soft-tissue sarcoma and bone sarcoma (SARC028): a multicentre, two-cohort, single-arm, open-label, phase 2 trial. Lancet Oncol 2017; 18:1493-1501. [PMID: 28988646 DOI: 10.1016/s1470-2045(17)30624-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 819] [Impact Index Per Article: 117.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2017] [Revised: 07/05/2017] [Accepted: 07/24/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND Patients with advanced sarcomas have a poor prognosis and few treatment options that improve overall survival. Chemotherapy and targeted therapies offer short-lived disease control. We assessed pembrolizumab, an anti-PD-1 antibody, for safety and activity in patients with advanced soft-tissue sarcoma or bone sarcoma. METHODS In this two-cohort, single-arm, open-label, phase 2 study, we enrolled patients with soft-tissue sarcoma or bone sarcoma from 12 academic centres in the USA that were members of the Sarcoma Alliance for Research through Collaboration (SARC). Patients with soft-tissue sarcoma had to be aged 18 years or older to enrol; patients with bone sarcoma could enrol if they were aged 12 years or older. Patients had histological evidence of metastatic or surgically unresectable locally advanced sarcoma, had received up to three previous lines of systemic anticancer therapy, had at least one measurable lesion according to the Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors version 1.1, and had at least one lesion accessible for biopsy. All patients were treated with 200 mg intravenous pembrolizumab every 3 weeks. The primary endpoint was investigator-assessed objective response. Patients who received at least one dose of pembrolizumab were included in the safety analysis and patients who progressed or reached at least one scan assessment were included in the activity analysis. Accrual is ongoing in some disease cohorts. This trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT02301039. FINDINGS Between March 13, 2015, and Feb 18, 2016, we enrolled 86 patients, 84 of whom received pembrolizumab (42 in each disease cohort) and 80 of whom were evaluable for response (40 in each disease cohort). Median follow-up was 17·8 months (IQR 12·3-19·3). Seven (18%) of 40 patients with soft-tissue sarcoma had an objective response, including four (40%) of ten patients with undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma, two (20%) of ten patients with liposarcoma, and one (10%) of ten patients with synovial sarcoma. No patients with leiomyosarcoma (n=10) had an objective response. Two (5%) of 40 patients with bone sarcoma had an objective response, including one (5%) of 22 patients with osteosarcoma and one (20%) of five patients with chondrosarcoma. None of the 13 patients with Ewing's sarcoma had an objective response. The most frequent grade 3 or worse adverse events were anaemia (six [14%]), decreased lymphocyte count (five [12%]), prolonged activated partial thromboplastin time (four [10%]), and decreased platelet count (three [7%]) in the bone sarcoma group, and anaemia, decreased lymphocyte count, and prolonged activated partial thromboplastin time in the soft-tissue sarcoma group (three [7%] each). Nine (11%) patients (five [12%] in the bone sarcoma group and four [10%] in the soft-tissue sarcoma group) had treatment-emergent serious adverse events (SAEs), five of whom had immune-related SAEs, including two with adrenal insufficiency, two with pneumonitis, and one with nephritis. INTERPRETATION The primary endpoint of overall response was not met for either cohort. However, pembrolizumab showed encouraging activity in patients with undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma or dedifferentiated liposarcoma. Enrolment to expanded cohorts of those subtypes is ongoing to confirm and characterise the activity of pembrolizumab. FUNDING Merck, SARC, Sarcoma Foundation of America, QuadW Foundation, Pittsburgh Cure Sarcoma, and Ewan McGregor.
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- Hussein A Tawbi
- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
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- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Washington Cancer Institute, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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- Cancer Research and Biostatistics, Seattle, WA, USA
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- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, Hempstead, NY, USA
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- Sarcoma Alliance for Research Through Collaboration, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Schuetze SM. Methotrexate and Vinblastine or Vinorelbine Remain Useful Treatments for Desmoid-Type Fibromatosis 30 Years Later. Cancer J 2017; 23:92-94. [PMID: 28410294 DOI: 10.1097/ppo.0000000000000250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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- Scott M Schuetze
- From the Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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Ryan CW, Merimsky O, Agulnik M, Blay JY, Schuetze SM, Van Tine BA, Jones RL, Elias AD, Choy E, Alcindor T, Keedy VL, Reed DR, Taub RN, Italiano A, Garcia del Muro X, Judson IR, Buck JY, Lebel F, Lewis JJ, Maki RG, Schöffski P. PICASSO III: A Phase III, Placebo-Controlled Study of Doxorubicin With or Without Palifosfamide in Patients With Metastatic Soft Tissue Sarcoma. J Clin Oncol 2016; 34:3898-3905. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2016.67.6684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Purpose Palifosfamide is the active metabolite of ifosfamide and does not require prodrug activation, thereby avoiding the generation of toxic metabolites. The PICASSO III trial compared doxorubicin plus palifosfamide with doxorubicin plus placebo in patients who had received no prior systemic therapy for metastatic soft tissue sarcoma. Patients and Methods Patients were randomly assigned 1:1 to receive doxorubicin 75 mg/m2 intravenously day 1 plus palifosfamide 150 mg/m2/d intravenously days 1 to 3 or doxorubicin plus placebo once every 21 days for up to six cycles. The primary end point was progression-free survival (PFS) by independent radiologic review. Results In all, 447 patients were randomly assigned to receive doxorubicin plus palifosfamide (n = 226) or doxorubicin plus placebo (n = 221). Median PFS was 6.0 months for doxorubicin plus palifosfamide and 5.2 months for doxorubicin plus placebo (hazard ratio, 0.86; 95% CI, 0.68 to 1.08; P = .19). Median overall survival was 15.9 months for doxorubicin plus palifosfamide and 16.9 months for doxorubicin plus placebo (hazard ratio, 1.05; 95% CI, 0.79 to 1.39; P = .74). There was a higher incidence of grade 3 to 4 adverse events in the doxorubicin plus palifosfamide arm (63.6% v 50.9%) including a higher rate of febrile neutropenia (21.4% v 12.6%). Conclusion No significant difference in PFS was observed in patients receiving doxorubicin plus palifosfamide compared with those receiving doxorubicin plus placebo. The observed median PFS and overall survival in this large, international study can serve as a benchmark for future studies of doxorubicin in metastatic soft tissue sarcoma.
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- Christopher W. Ryan
- Christopher W. Ryan, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; Ofer Merimsky, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mark Agulnik, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Jean-Yves Blay, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon; Antoine Italiano, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Robin L. Jones and Ian R. Judson, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Anthony D. Elias
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- Christopher W. Ryan, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; Ofer Merimsky, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mark Agulnik, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Jean-Yves Blay, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon; Antoine Italiano, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Robin L. Jones and Ian R. Judson, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Anthony D. Elias
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- Christopher W. Ryan, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; Ofer Merimsky, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mark Agulnik, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Jean-Yves Blay, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon; Antoine Italiano, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Robin L. Jones and Ian R. Judson, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Anthony D. Elias
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- Christopher W. Ryan, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; Ofer Merimsky, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mark Agulnik, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Jean-Yves Blay, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon; Antoine Italiano, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Robin L. Jones and Ian R. Judson, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Anthony D. Elias
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- Christopher W. Ryan, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; Ofer Merimsky, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mark Agulnik, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Jean-Yves Blay, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon; Antoine Italiano, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Robin L. Jones and Ian R. Judson, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Anthony D. Elias
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- Christopher W. Ryan, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; Ofer Merimsky, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mark Agulnik, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Jean-Yves Blay, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon; Antoine Italiano, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Robin L. Jones and Ian R. Judson, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Anthony D. Elias
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- Christopher W. Ryan, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; Ofer Merimsky, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mark Agulnik, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Jean-Yves Blay, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon; Antoine Italiano, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Robin L. Jones and Ian R. Judson, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Anthony D. Elias
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- Christopher W. Ryan, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; Ofer Merimsky, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mark Agulnik, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Jean-Yves Blay, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon; Antoine Italiano, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Robin L. Jones and Ian R. Judson, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Anthony D. Elias
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- Christopher W. Ryan, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; Ofer Merimsky, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mark Agulnik, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Jean-Yves Blay, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon; Antoine Italiano, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Robin L. Jones and Ian R. Judson, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Anthony D. Elias
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- Christopher W. Ryan, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; Ofer Merimsky, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mark Agulnik, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Jean-Yves Blay, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon; Antoine Italiano, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Robin L. Jones and Ian R. Judson, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Anthony D. Elias
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- Christopher W. Ryan, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; Ofer Merimsky, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mark Agulnik, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Jean-Yves Blay, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon; Antoine Italiano, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Robin L. Jones and Ian R. Judson, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Anthony D. Elias
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- Christopher W. Ryan, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; Ofer Merimsky, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mark Agulnik, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Jean-Yves Blay, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon; Antoine Italiano, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Robin L. Jones and Ian R. Judson, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Anthony D. Elias
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- Christopher W. Ryan, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; Ofer Merimsky, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mark Agulnik, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Jean-Yves Blay, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon; Antoine Italiano, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Robin L. Jones and Ian R. Judson, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Anthony D. Elias
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- Christopher W. Ryan, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; Ofer Merimsky, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mark Agulnik, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Jean-Yves Blay, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon; Antoine Italiano, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Robin L. Jones and Ian R. Judson, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Anthony D. Elias
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- Christopher W. Ryan, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; Ofer Merimsky, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mark Agulnik, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Jean-Yves Blay, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon; Antoine Italiano, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Robin L. Jones and Ian R. Judson, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Anthony D. Elias
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- Christopher W. Ryan, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; Ofer Merimsky, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mark Agulnik, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Jean-Yves Blay, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon; Antoine Italiano, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Robin L. Jones and Ian R. Judson, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Anthony D. Elias
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- Christopher W. Ryan, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; Ofer Merimsky, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mark Agulnik, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Jean-Yves Blay, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon; Antoine Italiano, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Robin L. Jones and Ian R. Judson, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Anthony D. Elias
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- Christopher W. Ryan, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; Ofer Merimsky, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mark Agulnik, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Jean-Yves Blay, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon; Antoine Italiano, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Robin L. Jones and Ian R. Judson, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Anthony D. Elias
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- Christopher W. Ryan, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; Ofer Merimsky, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mark Agulnik, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Jean-Yves Blay, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon; Antoine Italiano, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Robin L. Jones and Ian R. Judson, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Anthony D. Elias
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- Christopher W. Ryan, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; Ofer Merimsky, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mark Agulnik, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Jean-Yves Blay, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon; Antoine Italiano, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Robin L. Jones and Ian R. Judson, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Anthony D. Elias
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- Christopher W. Ryan, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; Ofer Merimsky, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mark Agulnik, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Jean-Yves Blay, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon; Antoine Italiano, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Robin L. Jones and Ian R. Judson, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Anthony D. Elias
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Koshkin VS, Bolejack V, Schwartz LH, Wahl RL, Chugh R, Reinke DK, Zhao B, O JH, Patel SR, Schuetze SM, Baker LH. Assessment of Imaging Modalities and Response Metrics in Ewing Sarcoma: Correlation With Survival. J Clin Oncol 2016; 34:3680-3685. [PMID: 27573658 DOI: 10.1200/jco.2016.68.1858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Despite the rapidly increasing use of [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) -positron emission tomography (PET), the comparison of anatomic and functional imaging in the assessment of clinical outcomes has been lacking. In addition, there has not been a rigorous evaluation of how common radiologic criteria or the location of the radiology reader (local v central) compare in the ability to predict benefit. In this study, we aimed to compare the effectiveness of various radiologic response assessments for the prediction of overall survival (OS) within the same data set of patients with sarcoma. METHODS We analyzed assessments made during a clinical trial of a novel IGF1R antibody in Ewing sarcoma: PET Response Criteria in Solid Tumors (PERCIST) for functional imaging and WHO criteria (performed locally and centrally), RECIST, and volumetric analysis for anatomic imaging. We compared the effectiveness of the various criteria for the prediction of progression and survival. RESULTS For volume analysis, progression-defined as cumulative lesion volume increase of 100% at 6 weeks-was the optimal cutoff for decreased OS (P < .001). Assessment of the day-9 FDG-PET scan was associated with reduced OS in progressors compared with nonprogressors (P = .001) and with improved OS in responders compared with nonresponders. Significant variations in response (18% to 44%) and progression (9% to 50%) were observed between the different criteria. The comparison of central and local interpretation of anatomic imaging produced similar outcomes. PET was superior to anatomic imaging in identification of a response. Volume analysis identified the most responders among the anatomic imaging criteria. CONCLUSION An early signal with FDG-PET on day 9 and volume analysis were the best predictors of benefit. Validation of the volumetric analysis is required.
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- Vadim S Koshkin
- Vadim S. Koshkin, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Vanessa Bolejack, Cancer Research and Biostatistics, Seattle, WA; Lawrence H. Schwartz, Binsheng Zhao, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; Richard L. Wahl, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Rashmi Chugh, Scott M. Schuetze, Laurence H. Baker, University of Michigan Medical School; Denise K. Reinke, Sarcoma Alliance for Research Through Collaboration, Ann Arbor, MI; Joo H. O, The Catholic University of Korea; Seoul St Mary's Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Vadim S. Koshkin, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Vanessa Bolejack, Cancer Research and Biostatistics, Seattle, WA; Lawrence H. Schwartz, Binsheng Zhao, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; Richard L. Wahl, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Rashmi Chugh, Scott M. Schuetze, Laurence H. Baker, University of Michigan Medical School; Denise K. Reinke, Sarcoma Alliance for Research Through Collaboration, Ann Arbor, MI; Joo H. O, The Catholic University of Korea; Seoul St Mary's Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Vadim S. Koshkin, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Vanessa Bolejack, Cancer Research and Biostatistics, Seattle, WA; Lawrence H. Schwartz, Binsheng Zhao, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; Richard L. Wahl, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Rashmi Chugh, Scott M. Schuetze, Laurence H. Baker, University of Michigan Medical School; Denise K. Reinke, Sarcoma Alliance for Research Through Collaboration, Ann Arbor, MI; Joo H. O, The Catholic University of Korea; Seoul St Mary's Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Vadim S. Koshkin, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Vanessa Bolejack, Cancer Research and Biostatistics, Seattle, WA; Lawrence H. Schwartz, Binsheng Zhao, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; Richard L. Wahl, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Rashmi Chugh, Scott M. Schuetze, Laurence H. Baker, University of Michigan Medical School; Denise K. Reinke, Sarcoma Alliance for Research Through Collaboration, Ann Arbor, MI; Joo H. O, The Catholic University of Korea; Seoul St Mary's Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Vadim S. Koshkin, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Vanessa Bolejack, Cancer Research and Biostatistics, Seattle, WA; Lawrence H. Schwartz, Binsheng Zhao, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; Richard L. Wahl, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Rashmi Chugh, Scott M. Schuetze, Laurence H. Baker, University of Michigan Medical School; Denise K. Reinke, Sarcoma Alliance for Research Through Collaboration, Ann Arbor, MI; Joo H. O, The Catholic University of Korea; Seoul St Mary's Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Vadim S. Koshkin, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Vanessa Bolejack, Cancer Research and Biostatistics, Seattle, WA; Lawrence H. Schwartz, Binsheng Zhao, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; Richard L. Wahl, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Rashmi Chugh, Scott M. Schuetze, Laurence H. Baker, University of Michigan Medical School; Denise K. Reinke, Sarcoma Alliance for Research Through Collaboration, Ann Arbor, MI; Joo H. O, The Catholic University of Korea; Seoul St Mary's Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Vadim S. Koshkin, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Vanessa Bolejack, Cancer Research and Biostatistics, Seattle, WA; Lawrence H. Schwartz, Binsheng Zhao, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; Richard L. Wahl, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Rashmi Chugh, Scott M. Schuetze, Laurence H. Baker, University of Michigan Medical School; Denise K. Reinke, Sarcoma Alliance for Research Through Collaboration, Ann Arbor, MI; Joo H. O, The Catholic University of Korea; Seoul St Mary's Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Vadim S. Koshkin, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Vanessa Bolejack, Cancer Research and Biostatistics, Seattle, WA; Lawrence H. Schwartz, Binsheng Zhao, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; Richard L. Wahl, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Rashmi Chugh, Scott M. Schuetze, Laurence H. Baker, University of Michigan Medical School; Denise K. Reinke, Sarcoma Alliance for Research Through Collaboration, Ann Arbor, MI; Joo H. O, The Catholic University of Korea; Seoul St Mary's Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Vadim S. Koshkin, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Vanessa Bolejack, Cancer Research and Biostatistics, Seattle, WA; Lawrence H. Schwartz, Binsheng Zhao, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; Richard L. Wahl, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Rashmi Chugh, Scott M. Schuetze, Laurence H. Baker, University of Michigan Medical School; Denise K. Reinke, Sarcoma Alliance for Research Through Collaboration, Ann Arbor, MI; Joo H. O, The Catholic University of Korea; Seoul St Mary's Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Vadim S. Koshkin, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Vanessa Bolejack, Cancer Research and Biostatistics, Seattle, WA; Lawrence H. Schwartz, Binsheng Zhao, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; Richard L. Wahl, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Rashmi Chugh, Scott M. Schuetze, Laurence H. Baker, University of Michigan Medical School; Denise K. Reinke, Sarcoma Alliance for Research Through Collaboration, Ann Arbor, MI; Joo H. O, The Catholic University of Korea; Seoul St Mary's Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Vadim S. Koshkin, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Vanessa Bolejack, Cancer Research and Biostatistics, Seattle, WA; Lawrence H. Schwartz, Binsheng Zhao, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; Richard L. Wahl, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Rashmi Chugh, Scott M. Schuetze, Laurence H. Baker, University of Michigan Medical School; Denise K. Reinke, Sarcoma Alliance for Research Through Collaboration, Ann Arbor, MI; Joo H. O, The Catholic University of Korea; Seoul St Mary's Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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Schuetze SM, Bolejack V, Choy E, Ganjoo KN, Staddon AP, Chow WA, Tawbi HA, Samuels BL, Patel SR, von Mehren M, D'Amato G, Leu KM, Loeb DM, Forscher CA, Milhem MM, Rushing DA, Lucas DR, Chugh R, Reinke DK, Baker LH. Phase 2 study of dasatinib in patients with alveolar soft part sarcoma, chondrosarcoma, chordoma, epithelioid sarcoma, or solitary fibrous tumor. Cancer 2016; 123:90-97. [PMID: 27696380 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.30379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2016] [Revised: 06/27/2016] [Accepted: 07/06/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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BACKGROUND Alveolar soft part sarcoma (ASPS), chondrosarcoma (CS), chordoma, epithelioid sarcoma, and solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) are malignant tumors that are relatively resistant to chemotherapy and for which more effective drug therapy is needed. METHODS The 5 listed subtypes were enrolled into a single indolent sarcoma cohort in a phase 2 study of dasatinib using a Bayesian continuous monitoring rule for enrollment. The primary objective was to estimate the 6-month progression-free survival (PFS) rate according to the Choi criteria with a target of ≥50%. Cross-sectional imaging was performed before the start of treatment, every 2 months for 6 months, and then every 3 months during treatment. The 2- and 5-year survival rates were determined. RESULTS One hundred sixteen patients were enrolled within 45 months, and 109 began treatment with dasatinib. The 6-month PFS rate and the median PFS were 48% and 5.8 months, respectively. The PFS rate at 6 months was highest with ASPS (62%) and lowest with SFT (30%). More than 10% of the patients with ASPS, CS, or chordoma had stable disease for more than 1 year. Collectively, for all 5 subtypes, the 2- and 5-year overall survival rates were 44% and 13%, respectively. An objective response was observed in 18% of the patients with CS or chordoma. CONCLUSIONS Dasatinib failed to achieve control of sarcoma growth for at least 6 months in more than 50% of the patients in this trial according to the Choi tumor response criteria. An objective tumor response and prolonged stable disease was observed in >10% of patients with CS or chordoma. Cancer 2017;90-97. © 2016 American Cancer Society.
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- Massachussetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Georgia Cancer Specialists, Sandy Springs, Georgia
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- Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Sarcoma Alliance Through Research and Collaboration, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Davis EJ, Zhao L, Lucas DR, Schuetze SM, Baker LH, Zalupski MM, Thomas D, Chugh R. SPARC expression in patients with high-risk localized soft tissue sarcoma treated on a randomized phase II trial of neo/adjuvant chemotherapy. BMC Cancer 2016; 16:663. [PMID: 27544129 PMCID: PMC4992190 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-016-2694-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2016] [Accepted: 08/09/2016] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Treatment for localized soft tissue sarcoma includes surgery and radiation, while the role of chemotherapy is controversial. Biomarkers that could predict therapeutic response or prognosticate overall survival (OS) are needed to define patients most likely to benefit from systemic treatment. Serum protein acidic and rich in cysteine (SPARC) is a matricellular glycoprotein that has been evaluated as a potential biomarker in numerous malignancies given its involvement in cell adhesion, proliferation, migration, and tissue remodeling. METHODS Using primary biopsy and resection specimens from patients with high-risk localized, soft tissue sarcoma treated on a neo/adjuvant chemotherapy study, SPARC expression was assessed and compared to patient and tumor characteristics, treatment, and outcomes. Survival functions were estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method and compared using the log-rank test. The Cox model was used for multivariate analysis. RESULTS Fifty patients had primary tumor specimens available. High, low, and no SPARC expression was found in 22, 13, and 15 patients, respectively. There was no significant difference in time to recurrence or OS between patients in these three groups. Comparing lack of SPARC expression with any SPARC expression, there was no significant difference in time to recurrence in patients without SPARC expression (n = 15) compared to patients with SPARC expression (n = 35). Likewise, there was no statistically significant difference in OS in patients without SPARC expression versus patients whose tumors expressed SPARC. CONCLUSIONS Although we did not find a statistically significant difference in time to recurrence and OS in patients with high-risk soft tissue sarcoma, we did identify a trend toward improved time to recurrence and OS in patients whose tumors lacked SPARC expression. However, SPARC did not demonstrate the ability to discern which high-risk patients may have a worse prognosis or greater benefit from chemotherapy. TRIAL REGISTRATION The trial was registered on September 13, 2005 with ClinicalTrials.gov, number https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00189137?term=sarcoma&id=NCT00189137&state1=NA%3AUS%3AMI&phase=1&rank=1 .
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- Elizabeth J Davis
- Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Michigan, 1500 E. Medical Center Dr., Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA. .,Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology, University of Michigan, 1500 E. Medical Center Dr., Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA.
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, 1500 E. Medical Center Dr., Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, 1500 E. Medical Center Dr., Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Michigan, 1500 E. Medical Center Dr., Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Michigan, 1500 E. Medical Center Dr., Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Michigan, 1500 E. Medical Center Dr., Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, 1500 E. Medical Center Dr., Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Michigan, 1500 E. Medical Center Dr., Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Rashmi Chugh
- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Hyun O J, Luber BS, Leal JP, Wang H, Bolejack V, Schuetze SM, Schwartz LH, Helman LJ, Reinke D, Baker LH, Wahl RL. Response to Early Treatment Evaluated with 18F-FDG PET and PERCIST 1.0 Predicts Survival in Patients with Ewing Sarcoma Family of Tumors Treated with a Monoclonal Antibody to the Insulinlike Growth Factor 1 Receptor. J Nucl Med 2016; 57:735-40. [PMID: 26795289 DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.115.162412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2015] [Accepted: 12/04/2015] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED The aim of this study was to assess the prognostic and predictive value of early quantitative (18)F-FDG PET to monitor therapy with an antibody to the insulinlike growth factor 1 receptor (IGF-1R antibody) in patients with Ewing sarcoma family of tumors (ESFT). METHODS (18)F-FDG PET images at baseline and approximately 9 d after initiation of IGF-1R antibody therapy in 115 patients with refractory or relapsed ESFT were prospectively obtained as part of the Sarcoma Alliance for Research through Collaboration trial. Responses were centrally evaluated by PERCIST 1.0 in 93 patients. The 9-d PET responses were correlated to overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS), and clinical benefit after 6 wk of therapy based on clinical observation and CT response by World Health Organization anatomic criteria. RESULTS The median OS was 8.1 mo (95% confidence interval, 6.4-10.0 mo). When PERCIST was used, patients with progressive metabolic disease showed shorter OS (median, 4.7 mo) than patients without progression (median, 10.0 mo; P = 0.001). Progressive metabolic disease on day-9 PET was associated with a significantly higher risk of death (hazard ratio, 2.8; 95% confidence interval, 1.5-5.5). Changes in (18)F-FDG uptake after 9 d of therapy had an area under the curve of receiver-operating characteristic of 0.71 to predict 1-y OS. The area under the curve was 0.63 to predict progression at 3 mo and 0.79 to predict clinical benefit after 6 wk of therapy. CONCLUSION Treatment response by quantitative (18)F-FDG PET assessed by PERCIST 1.0 as early as 9 d into IGF-1R antibody therapy in patients with ESFT can predict the OS, PFS, and clinical response to therapy.
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- Joo Hyun O
- Division of Nuclear Medicine, The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine, The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Pediatric Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland; and
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine, The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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Schuetze SM, Wathen JK, Lucas DR, Choy E, Samuels BL, Staddon AP, Ganjoo KN, von Mehren M, Chow WA, Loeb DM, Tawbi HA, Rushing DA, Patel SR, Thomas DG, Chugh R, Reinke DK, Baker LH. SARC009: Phase 2 study of dasatinib in patients with previously treated, high-grade, advanced sarcoma. Cancer 2015; 122:868-74. [PMID: 26710211 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.29858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2015] [Revised: 11/17/2015] [Accepted: 11/23/2015] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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BACKGROUND Dasatinib exhibited activity in preclinical models of sarcoma. The Sarcoma Alliance for Research through Collaboration (SARC) conducted a multicenter, phase 2 trial of dasatinib in patients with advanced sarcoma. METHODS Patients received dasatinib twice daily. The primary objective was to estimate the clinical benefit rate (CBR) (complete response or partial response within 6 months or stable disease duration of ≥6 months) with a target of ≥25%. Patients were enrolled into 1 of 7 different cohorts and assessed by imaging every 8 weeks using Choi criteria tumor response and a Bayesian hierarchical design. For each subtype, enrollment was stopped after a minimum of 9 patients were treated if there was a <1% chance the CBR was ≥25%. RESULTS A total of 200 patients were enrolled. Accrual was stopped early in 5 cohorts because of low CBR. The leiomyosarcoma (LMS) and undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma (UPS) cohorts fully accrued and 6 of 47 and 8 of 42 evaluable patients, respectively, exhibited clinical benefit. The probability that the CBR was ≥25% in the LMS and UPS cohorts was 0.008 and 0.10, respectively. The median progression-free survival ranged from 0.9 months in patients with rhabdomyosarcoma to 2.2 months in patients with LMS. The median overall survival was 8.6 months. The most frequent adverse events were constitutional, gastrointestinal, and respiratory, and 36% of patients required dose reduction for toxicity. Serious adverse events attributed to therapy occurred in 11% of patients. CONCLUSIONS Dasatinib may have activity in patients with UPS but is inactive as a single agent in the other sarcoma subtypes included herein. The Bayesian design allowed for the early termination of accrual in 5 subtypes because of lack of drug activity.
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- Scott M Schuetze
- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Biostatistics, Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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- Anatomic Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Medical Oncology, Stanford Medical Institute, Stanford, California
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- Division of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California
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- Division of Pediatric Oncology, Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Divison of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Department of Sarcoma Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Molecular Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Sarcoma Alliance for Research through Collaboration, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Demetri GD, von Mehren M, Jones RL, Hensley ML, Schuetze SM, Staddon A, Milhem M, Elias A, Ganjoo K, Tawbi H, Van Tine BA, Spira A, Dean A, Khokhar NZ, Park YC, Knoblauch RE, Parekh TV, Maki RG, Patel SR. Efficacy and Safety of Trabectedin or Dacarbazine for Metastatic Liposarcoma or Leiomyosarcoma After Failure of Conventional Chemotherapy: Results of a Phase III Randomized Multicenter Clinical Trial. J Clin Oncol 2015; 34:786-93. [PMID: 26371143 DOI: 10.1200/jco.2015.62.4734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 552] [Impact Index Per Article: 61.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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PURPOSE This multicenter study, to our knowledge, is the first phase III trial to compare trabectedin versus dacarbazine in patients with advanced liposarcoma or leiomyosarcoma after prior therapy with an anthracycline and at least one additional systemic regimen. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients were randomly assigned in a 2:1 ratio to receive trabectedin or dacarbazine intravenously every 3 weeks. The primary end point was overall survival (OS), secondary end points were disease control-progression-free survival (PFS), time to progression, objective response rate, and duration of response-as well as safety and patient-reported symptom scoring. RESULTS A total of 518 patients were enrolled and randomly assigned to either trabectedin (n = 345) or dacarbazine (n = 173). In the final analysis of PFS, trabectedin administration resulted in a 45% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death compared with dacarbazine (median PFS for trabectedin v dacarbazine, 4.2 v 1.5 months; hazard ratio, 0.55; P < .001); benefits were observed across all preplanned subgroup analyses. The interim analysis of OS (64% censored) demonstrated a 13% reduction in risk of death in the trabectedin arm compared with dacarbazine (median OS for trabectedin v dacarbazine, 12.4 v 12.9 months; hazard ratio, 0.87; P = .37). The safety profiles were consistent with the well-characterized toxicities of both agents, and the most common grade 3 to 4 adverse effects were myelosuppression and transient elevation of transaminases in the trabectedin arm. CONCLUSION Trabectedin demonstrates superior disease control versus conventional dacarbazine in patients who have advanced liposarcoma and leiomyosarcoma after they experience failure of prior chemotherapy. Because disease control in advanced sarcomas is a clinically relevant end point, this study supports the activity of trabectedin for patients with these malignancies.
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- George D Demetri
- George D. Demetri, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ludwig Center at Harvard, Boston, MA; Margaret von Mehren, Fox Chase Cancer Center; Arthur Staddon, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Hussein Tawbi, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Robin L. Jones, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA; Martee L. Hensley, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Robert G. Maki, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Mohammed Milhem, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; Anthony Elias, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO; Kristen Ganjoo, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Alexander Spira, Virginia Cancer Specialists, Fairfax, VA; Andrew Dean, St John of God Hospital-Bendat Cancer Centre, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia; Nushmia Z. Khokhar, Youn Choi Park, Roland E. Knoblauch, and Trilok V. Parekh, Janssen Research & Development, Raritan, NJ; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.
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- George D. Demetri, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ludwig Center at Harvard, Boston, MA; Margaret von Mehren, Fox Chase Cancer Center; Arthur Staddon, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Hussein Tawbi, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Robin L. Jones, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA; Martee L. Hensley, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Robert G. Maki, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Mohammed Milhem, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; Anthony Elias, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO; Kristen Ganjoo, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Alexander Spira, Virginia Cancer Specialists, Fairfax, VA; Andrew Dean, St John of God Hospital-Bendat Cancer Centre, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia; Nushmia Z. Khokhar, Youn Choi Park, Roland E. Knoblauch, and Trilok V. Parekh, Janssen Research & Development, Raritan, NJ; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- George D. Demetri, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ludwig Center at Harvard, Boston, MA; Margaret von Mehren, Fox Chase Cancer Center; Arthur Staddon, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Hussein Tawbi, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Robin L. Jones, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA; Martee L. Hensley, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Robert G. Maki, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Mohammed Milhem, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; Anthony Elias, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO; Kristen Ganjoo, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Alexander Spira, Virginia Cancer Specialists, Fairfax, VA; Andrew Dean, St John of God Hospital-Bendat Cancer Centre, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia; Nushmia Z. Khokhar, Youn Choi Park, Roland E. Knoblauch, and Trilok V. Parekh, Janssen Research & Development, Raritan, NJ; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- George D. Demetri, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ludwig Center at Harvard, Boston, MA; Margaret von Mehren, Fox Chase Cancer Center; Arthur Staddon, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Hussein Tawbi, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Robin L. Jones, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA; Martee L. Hensley, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Robert G. Maki, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Mohammed Milhem, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; Anthony Elias, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO; Kristen Ganjoo, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Alexander Spira, Virginia Cancer Specialists, Fairfax, VA; Andrew Dean, St John of God Hospital-Bendat Cancer Centre, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia; Nushmia Z. Khokhar, Youn Choi Park, Roland E. Knoblauch, and Trilok V. Parekh, Janssen Research & Development, Raritan, NJ; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- George D. Demetri, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ludwig Center at Harvard, Boston, MA; Margaret von Mehren, Fox Chase Cancer Center; Arthur Staddon, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Hussein Tawbi, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Robin L. Jones, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA; Martee L. Hensley, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Robert G. Maki, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Mohammed Milhem, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; Anthony Elias, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO; Kristen Ganjoo, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Alexander Spira, Virginia Cancer Specialists, Fairfax, VA; Andrew Dean, St John of God Hospital-Bendat Cancer Centre, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia; Nushmia Z. Khokhar, Youn Choi Park, Roland E. Knoblauch, and Trilok V. Parekh, Janssen Research & Development, Raritan, NJ; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- George D. Demetri, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ludwig Center at Harvard, Boston, MA; Margaret von Mehren, Fox Chase Cancer Center; Arthur Staddon, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Hussein Tawbi, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Robin L. Jones, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA; Martee L. Hensley, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Robert G. Maki, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Mohammed Milhem, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; Anthony Elias, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO; Kristen Ganjoo, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Alexander Spira, Virginia Cancer Specialists, Fairfax, VA; Andrew Dean, St John of God Hospital-Bendat Cancer Centre, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia; Nushmia Z. Khokhar, Youn Choi Park, Roland E. Knoblauch, and Trilok V. Parekh, Janssen Research & Development, Raritan, NJ; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- George D. Demetri, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ludwig Center at Harvard, Boston, MA; Margaret von Mehren, Fox Chase Cancer Center; Arthur Staddon, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Hussein Tawbi, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Robin L. Jones, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA; Martee L. Hensley, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Robert G. Maki, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Mohammed Milhem, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; Anthony Elias, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO; Kristen Ganjoo, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Alexander Spira, Virginia Cancer Specialists, Fairfax, VA; Andrew Dean, St John of God Hospital-Bendat Cancer Centre, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia; Nushmia Z. Khokhar, Youn Choi Park, Roland E. Knoblauch, and Trilok V. Parekh, Janssen Research & Development, Raritan, NJ; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- George D. Demetri, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ludwig Center at Harvard, Boston, MA; Margaret von Mehren, Fox Chase Cancer Center; Arthur Staddon, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Hussein Tawbi, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Robin L. Jones, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA; Martee L. Hensley, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Robert G. Maki, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Mohammed Milhem, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; Anthony Elias, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO; Kristen Ganjoo, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Alexander Spira, Virginia Cancer Specialists, Fairfax, VA; Andrew Dean, St John of God Hospital-Bendat Cancer Centre, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia; Nushmia Z. Khokhar, Youn Choi Park, Roland E. Knoblauch, and Trilok V. Parekh, Janssen Research & Development, Raritan, NJ; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- George D. Demetri, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ludwig Center at Harvard, Boston, MA; Margaret von Mehren, Fox Chase Cancer Center; Arthur Staddon, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Hussein Tawbi, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Robin L. Jones, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA; Martee L. Hensley, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Robert G. Maki, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Mohammed Milhem, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; Anthony Elias, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO; Kristen Ganjoo, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Alexander Spira, Virginia Cancer Specialists, Fairfax, VA; Andrew Dean, St John of God Hospital-Bendat Cancer Centre, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia; Nushmia Z. Khokhar, Youn Choi Park, Roland E. Knoblauch, and Trilok V. Parekh, Janssen Research & Development, Raritan, NJ; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- George D. Demetri, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ludwig Center at Harvard, Boston, MA; Margaret von Mehren, Fox Chase Cancer Center; Arthur Staddon, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Hussein Tawbi, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Robin L. Jones, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA; Martee L. Hensley, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Robert G. Maki, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Mohammed Milhem, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; Anthony Elias, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO; Kristen Ganjoo, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Alexander Spira, Virginia Cancer Specialists, Fairfax, VA; Andrew Dean, St John of God Hospital-Bendat Cancer Centre, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia; Nushmia Z. Khokhar, Youn Choi Park, Roland E. Knoblauch, and Trilok V. Parekh, Janssen Research & Development, Raritan, NJ; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- George D. Demetri, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ludwig Center at Harvard, Boston, MA; Margaret von Mehren, Fox Chase Cancer Center; Arthur Staddon, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Hussein Tawbi, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Robin L. Jones, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA; Martee L. Hensley, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Robert G. Maki, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Mohammed Milhem, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; Anthony Elias, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO; Kristen Ganjoo, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Alexander Spira, Virginia Cancer Specialists, Fairfax, VA; Andrew Dean, St John of God Hospital-Bendat Cancer Centre, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia; Nushmia Z. Khokhar, Youn Choi Park, Roland E. Knoblauch, and Trilok V. Parekh, Janssen Research & Development, Raritan, NJ; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- George D. Demetri, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ludwig Center at Harvard, Boston, MA; Margaret von Mehren, Fox Chase Cancer Center; Arthur Staddon, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Hussein Tawbi, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Robin L. Jones, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA; Martee L. Hensley, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Robert G. Maki, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Mohammed Milhem, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; Anthony Elias, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO; Kristen Ganjoo, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Alexander Spira, Virginia Cancer Specialists, Fairfax, VA; Andrew Dean, St John of God Hospital-Bendat Cancer Centre, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia; Nushmia Z. Khokhar, Youn Choi Park, Roland E. Knoblauch, and Trilok V. Parekh, Janssen Research & Development, Raritan, NJ; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- George D. Demetri, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ludwig Center at Harvard, Boston, MA; Margaret von Mehren, Fox Chase Cancer Center; Arthur Staddon, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Hussein Tawbi, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Robin L. Jones, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA; Martee L. Hensley, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Robert G. Maki, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Mohammed Milhem, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; Anthony Elias, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO; Kristen Ganjoo, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Alexander Spira, Virginia Cancer Specialists, Fairfax, VA; Andrew Dean, St John of God Hospital-Bendat Cancer Centre, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia; Nushmia Z. Khokhar, Youn Choi Park, Roland E. Knoblauch, and Trilok V. Parekh, Janssen Research & Development, Raritan, NJ; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- George D. Demetri, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ludwig Center at Harvard, Boston, MA; Margaret von Mehren, Fox Chase Cancer Center; Arthur Staddon, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Hussein Tawbi, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Robin L. Jones, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA; Martee L. Hensley, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Robert G. Maki, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Mohammed Milhem, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; Anthony Elias, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO; Kristen Ganjoo, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Alexander Spira, Virginia Cancer Specialists, Fairfax, VA; Andrew Dean, St John of God Hospital-Bendat Cancer Centre, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia; Nushmia Z. Khokhar, Youn Choi Park, Roland E. Knoblauch, and Trilok V. Parekh, Janssen Research & Development, Raritan, NJ; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- George D. Demetri, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ludwig Center at Harvard, Boston, MA; Margaret von Mehren, Fox Chase Cancer Center; Arthur Staddon, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Hussein Tawbi, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Robin L. Jones, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA; Martee L. Hensley, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Robert G. Maki, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Mohammed Milhem, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; Anthony Elias, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO; Kristen Ganjoo, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Alexander Spira, Virginia Cancer Specialists, Fairfax, VA; Andrew Dean, St John of God Hospital-Bendat Cancer Centre, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia; Nushmia Z. Khokhar, Youn Choi Park, Roland E. Knoblauch, and Trilok V. Parekh, Janssen Research & Development, Raritan, NJ; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- George D. Demetri, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ludwig Center at Harvard, Boston, MA; Margaret von Mehren, Fox Chase Cancer Center; Arthur Staddon, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Hussein Tawbi, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Robin L. Jones, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA; Martee L. Hensley, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Robert G. Maki, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Mohammed Milhem, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; Anthony Elias, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO; Kristen Ganjoo, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Alexander Spira, Virginia Cancer Specialists, Fairfax, VA; Andrew Dean, St John of God Hospital-Bendat Cancer Centre, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia; Nushmia Z. Khokhar, Youn Choi Park, Roland E. Knoblauch, and Trilok V. Parekh, Janssen Research & Development, Raritan, NJ; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- George D. Demetri, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ludwig Center at Harvard, Boston, MA; Margaret von Mehren, Fox Chase Cancer Center; Arthur Staddon, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Hussein Tawbi, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Robin L. Jones, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA; Martee L. Hensley, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Robert G. Maki, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Mohammed Milhem, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; Anthony Elias, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO; Kristen Ganjoo, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Alexander Spira, Virginia Cancer Specialists, Fairfax, VA; Andrew Dean, St John of God Hospital-Bendat Cancer Centre, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia; Nushmia Z. Khokhar, Youn Choi Park, Roland E. Knoblauch, and Trilok V. Parekh, Janssen Research & Development, Raritan, NJ; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- George D. Demetri, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ludwig Center at Harvard, Boston, MA; Margaret von Mehren, Fox Chase Cancer Center; Arthur Staddon, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Hussein Tawbi, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Robin L. Jones, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA; Martee L. Hensley, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Robert G. Maki, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Mohammed Milhem, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; Anthony Elias, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO; Kristen Ganjoo, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Alexander Spira, Virginia Cancer Specialists, Fairfax, VA; Andrew Dean, St John of God Hospital-Bendat Cancer Centre, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia; Nushmia Z. Khokhar, Youn Choi Park, Roland E. Knoblauch, and Trilok V. Parekh, Janssen Research & Development, Raritan, NJ; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- George D. Demetri, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ludwig Center at Harvard, Boston, MA; Margaret von Mehren, Fox Chase Cancer Center; Arthur Staddon, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Hussein Tawbi, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Robin L. Jones, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA; Martee L. Hensley, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Robert G. Maki, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY; Scott M. Schuetze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Mohammed Milhem, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; Anthony Elias, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO; Kristen Ganjoo, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA; Brian A. Van Tine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; Alexander Spira, Virginia Cancer Specialists, Fairfax, VA; Andrew Dean, St John of God Hospital-Bendat Cancer Centre, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia; Nushmia Z. Khokhar, Youn Choi Park, Roland E. Knoblauch, and Trilok V. Parekh, Janssen Research & Development, Raritan, NJ; and Shreyaskumar R. Patel, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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Chugh R, Griffith KA, Davis EJ, Thomas DG, Zavala JD, Metko G, Brockstein B, Undevia SD, Stadler WM, Schuetze SM. Doxorubicin plus the IGF-1R antibody cixutumumab in soft tissue sarcoma: a phase I study using the TITE-CRM model. Ann Oncol 2015; 26:1459-64. [PMID: 25858498 DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdv171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2014] [Accepted: 03/27/2015] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Insulin-like growth factor receptor (IGF-1R) has been studied as an oncologic target in soft tissue sarcoma (STS), but its role in sarcoma biology is unclear. Anti-IGF-1R antibody cixutumumab demonstrated acceptable toxicity but limited activity as a single agent in STS. We carried out a dose-escalation study of cixutumumab with doxorubicin to evaluate safety and dosing of the combination. PATIENTS AND METHODS Eligible patients with advanced STS were treated with cixutumumab intravenously on days 1/8/15 at one of three dose levels (A: 1 mg/kg, B: 3 mg/kg, C: 6 mg/kg) with doxorubicin at 75 mg/m(2) as a 48 h infusion on day 1 of a 21 day cycle. After six cycles of the combination, patients could receive cixutumumab alone. The Time-to-Event Continual Reassessment Method was used to estimate the probability of dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) and to assign patients to the dose with an estimated probability of DLT≤20%. RESULTS Between September 2008 and January 2012, 30 patients with advanced STS received a median of six cycles of therapy (range <1-22). Two DLTs were observed, grade 3 mucositis (dose level B) and grade 4 hyperglycemia (dose level C). Grade 2 and 3 reduced left ventricular ejection fraction was seen in three and two patients, respectively. Five partial responses were observed, and estimated progression-free survival was 5.3 months (95% confidence interval 3.0-6.3) in 26 response-assessable patients. Immunohistochemical staining of 11 available tumor samples for IGF-1R and phospho-IGF-1R was not significantly different among responders and non-responders, and serum analysis of select single-nucleotide polymorphisms did not predict for cardiotoxicity. CONCLUSION The maximum tolerated dose was doxorubicin 75 mg/m(2) on day 1 and cixitumumab 6 mg/kg on days 1/8/15 of a 21 day cycle. Cardiac toxicity was observed and should be monitored in subsequent studies, which should be considered in STS only if a predictive biomarker of benefit to anti-IGF-1R therapy is identified. TRIAL REGISTRATION ClinicalTrials.gov:NCT00720174.
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- Departments of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Departments of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Cancer Clinical Trials Office, University of Chicago, Chicago
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- Clinical Trials Office, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
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- Departments of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Pappo AS, Vassal G, Crowley JJ, Bolejack V, Hogendoorn PCW, Chugh R, Ladanyi M, Grippo JF, Dall G, Staddon AP, Chawla SP, Maki RG, Araujo DM, Geoerger B, Ganjoo K, Marina N, Blay JY, Schuetze SM, Chow WA, Helman LJ. A phase 2 trial of R1507, a monoclonal antibody to the insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF-1R), in patients with recurrent or refractory rhabdomyosarcoma, osteosarcoma, synovial sarcoma, and other soft tissue sarcomas: results of a Sarcoma Alliance for Research Through Collaboration study. Cancer 2014; 120:2448-56. [PMID: 24797726 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.28728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2013] [Revised: 12/23/2013] [Accepted: 12/24/2013] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND Insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF-1R) is implicated in the pathogenesis of rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS), osteosarcoma (OS), and synovial sarcoma (SS). The authors conducted a multi-institutional phase 2 trial of the monoclonal antibody R1507 in patients with various subtypes of recurrent or refractory sarcomas. METHODS Eligibility criteria included age ≥ 2 years and a diagnosis of recurrent or refractory RMS, OS, SS, and other soft tissue sarcomas. Patients received a weekly dose of 9 mg/kg R1507 intravenously. The primary endpoint was the best objective response rate using World Health Organization criteria. Tumor imaging was performed every 6 weeks × 4 and every 12 weeks thereafter. RESULTS From December 2007 through August 2009, 163 eligible patients from 33 institutions were enrolled. The median patient age was 31 years (range, 7-85 years). Histologic diagnoses included OS (n = 38), RMS (n = 36), SS (n = 23), and other sarcomas (n = 66). The overall objective response rate was 2.5% (95% confidence interval, 0.7%-6.2%). Partial responses were observed in 4 patients, including 2 patients with OS, 1 patient with RMS, and 1 patient with alveolar soft part sarcoma. Four additional patients (3 with RMS and 1 with myxoid liposarcoma) had a ≥ 50% decrease in tumor size that lasted for <4 weeks. The median progression-free survival was 5.7 weeks, and the median overall survival was 11 months. The most common grade 3/4 toxicities were metabolic (12%), hematologic (6%), gastrointestinal (4%), and general constitutional symptoms (8%). CONCLUSIONS R1507 is safe and well tolerated but has limited activity in patients with recurrent or refractory bone and soft tissue sarcomas. Additional studies to help identify the predictive factors associated with clinical benefit in selected histologies such as RMS appear to be warranted.
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- Alberto S Pappo
- Solid Tumor Division, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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Eary JF, Conrad EU, O’Sullivan J, Hawkins DS, Schuetze SM, O’Sullivan F. Sarcoma mid-therapy [F-18]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG PET) and patient outcome. J Bone Joint Surg Am 2014; 96:152-8. [PMID: 24430415 PMCID: PMC3903137 DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.m.00062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Our previous research investigated the ability of [F-18]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) imaging results to predict outcome in patients with sarcoma. Tumor uptake of FDG before and after neoadjuvant chemotherapy was predictive of patient outcome. With this background, a prospective clinical study was designed to assess whether tumor FDG uptake levels in the middle of neoadjuvant chemotherapy added additional prognostic information to pre-therapy imaging data. METHODS Sixty-five patients with either bone or soft-tissue sarcoma were treated with neoadjuvant-based chemotherapy according to the standard clinical practice for each tumor group. All patients had FDG PET studies before therapy, mid-therapy (after two cycles of chemotherapy), and before resection. Tumor FDG uptake (SUVmax, the maximum standardized uptake value) at each imaging time point, tumor type (bone or soft-tissue sarcoma), tumor size, and histopathologic grade were recorded for each patient. The time from the pre-therapy FDG PET study to events of local tumor recurrence, metastasis, or death were extracted from the clinical records for comparison with the imaging data. Univariate and multivariate analyses of the imaging and clinical data were performed. RESULTS Univariate and multivariate data analyses showed that the difference (measured as the percentage reduction) between the pre-therapy and mid-therapy maximum tumor uptake values added prognostic value to patient outcome predictions independently of other patient variables. CONCLUSIONS The utility of a tumor pre-therapy FDG PET scan as a biomarker for the outcome of patients with sarcoma was strengthened by a mid-therapy scan to evaluate the interim treatment response.
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- University of Washington, UWMC Box 356113, Seattle, WA 98195. E-mail address for J.F. Eary: . E-mail address for E.U. Conrad:
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- University of Washington, UWMC Box 356113, Seattle, WA 98195. E-mail address for J.F. Eary: . E-mail address for E.U. Conrad:
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- School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Cork, Western Gateway Building, Western Road, Cork, Ireland. E-mail address for J. O’Sullivan: . E-mail address for F. O’Sullivan:
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Seattle Children’s Hospital, B 6553, 4800 Sand Point Way, Seattle, WA 98105. E-mail address:
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Cancer Center, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, SPC 5912, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. E-mail address:
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- School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Cork, Western Gateway Building, Western Road, Cork, Ireland. E-mail address for J. O’Sullivan: . E-mail address for F. O’Sullivan:
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Rowe RG, Thomas DG, Schuetze SM, Hafez KS, Lawlor ER, Chugh R. Ewing sarcoma of the kidney: case series and literature review of an often overlooked entity in the diagnosis of primary renal tumors. Urology 2013; 81:347-53. [PMID: 23374800 DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2012.10.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2012] [Revised: 09/06/2012] [Accepted: 10/10/2012] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate our own experience with primary Ewing sarcoma family tumors (ESFTs) of the kidney and to review cases of this in published reports. MATERIALS AND METHODS Institutional cases of renal ESFT were identified in our pathology database. The retrieved records were reviewed for relevant data. Published cases of renal ESFTs were identified from the National Library of Medicine Medline database and restricted to English language studies. The factors associated with initial surgical management (diagnostic biopsy vs surgical resection) were analyzed using chi-square analysis. RESULTS We diagnosed and treated 10 cases of renal ESFT from 2002 to 2011 and identified an additional 97 published cases describing this tumor. A review of these 107 cases revealed that renal ESFTs more often presented with distant metastases than did ESFTs of the bone or soft tissue. Moreover, patients rarely received preoperative (neoadjuvant) chemotherapy, the current standard of care for ESFT, often because of early total tumor resection without diagnostic biopsy. Younger patients and patients with distant metastases were more likely to undergo diagnostic biopsy as initial management (P <.0001), allowing for use of neoadjuvant chemotherapy. CONCLUSION ESFTs of the kidney should be considered in the differential diagnosis of renal masses. Preoperative biopsy should be considered to identify these tumors to allow for delivery of neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5848, USA
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Schuetze SM, Zhao L, Chugh R, Thomas DG, Lucas DR, Metko G, Zalupski MM, Baker LH. Results of a phase II study of sirolimus and cyclophosphamide in patients with advanced sarcoma. Eur J Cancer 2012; 48:1347-53. [PMID: 22525224 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2012.03.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2012] [Accepted: 03/28/2012] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND Activation of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway has been demonstrated in sarcoma. Trials using mTOR inhibitor in sarcoma have shown low objective response rates but progression-free survival (PFS) rates suggest cytostatic effects. The combination of sirolimus and cyclophosphamide demonstrated synergistic anti-sarcoma activity in preclinical models; therefore, we conducted a phase II trial of sirolimus and cyclophosphamide in patients with advanced sarcoma. METHODS Patients received 4 mg sirolimus daily and 200mg cyclophosphamide d1-7 and 15-21 every 28 days. The primary objective was to estimate the 24-week PFS rate with a target of ≥ 25%. Patients were followed for World Health Organisation (WHO) criteria tumour response by imaging every 8 weeks. Serum levels of sirolimus, lipids and vascular endothelial growth factor were measured. Tumour tissue was analysed for mTOR, S6 ribosomal protein and cytochrome P450 3A4/5 by quantitative immunofluorescence. RESULTS Forty-nine eligible patients were enrolled from September 2008 to December 2009. Patients received a median of four cycles of therapy. Starting doses of drugs were tolerated in 79%. One patient achieved partial tumour response, 10 were progression-free for ≥ 24 weeks and two completed 12 cycles of treatment. Median PFS and overall survival (OS) were 3.4 and 9.9 months, respectively. Serious adverse events attributed to therapy occurred in 11% and included infection, pneumonitis and thrombosis. Hypertriglyceridaemia from treatment and lower tumour phosphorylated-mTOR are associated with longer survival. CONCLUSIONS Sirolimus and cyclophosphamide were tolerated by the majority of patients. About 20% of patients had stable sarcoma for at least 6 months but objective tumour response was infrequent.
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- Scott M Schuetze
- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5848, United States.
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Zhao L, Taylor JMG, Schuetze SM. Bayesian decision theoretic two-stage design in phase II clinical trials with survival endpoint. Stat Med 2012; 31:1804-20. [PMID: 22359354 DOI: 10.1002/sim.4511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2011] [Revised: 08/30/2011] [Accepted: 12/08/2011] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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In this paper, we consider two-stage designs with failure-time endpoints in single-arm phase II trials. We propose designs in which stopping rules are constructed by comparing the Bayes risk of stopping at stage I with the expected Bayes risk of continuing to stage II using both the observed data in stage I and the predicted survival data in stage II. Terminal decision rules are constructed by comparing the posterior expected loss of a rejection decision versus an acceptance decision. Simple threshold loss functions are applied to time-to-event data modeled either parametrically or nonparametrically, and the cost parameters in the loss structure are calibrated to obtain desired type I error and power. We ran simulation studies to evaluate design properties including types I and II errors, probability of early stopping, expected sample size, and expected trial duration and compared them with the Simon two-stage designs and a design, which is an extension of the Simon's designs with time-to-event endpoints. An example based on a recently conducted phase II sarcoma trial illustrates the method.
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- Biostatistics Unit, University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), the most common sarcoma arising in the gastrointestinal tract, typically expresses the tyrosine-kinase receptor, C-KIT, and contains activating mutation in the c-kit or platelet-derived growth factor receptor (pdgfr) gene. Recently, development of small molecules that inhibit the kinase activity of mutant C-KIT and PDGFR proteins has radically changed treatment and prognosis of patients diagnosed with advanced GIST as this molecularly "targeted" therapy has demonstrated remarkable high-level of activity in this disease.
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Michigan, USA
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Chawla SP, Staddon AP, Baker LH, Schuetze SM, Tolcher AW, D'Amato GZ, Blay JY, Mita MM, Sankhala KK, Berk L, Rivera VM, Clackson T, Loewy JW, Haluska FG, Demetri GD. Phase II study of the mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor ridaforolimus in patients with advanced bone and soft tissue sarcomas. J Clin Oncol 2011; 30:78-84. [PMID: 22067397 DOI: 10.1200/jco.2011.35.6329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 194] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Ridaforolimus is an inhibitor of mammalian target of rapamycin, an integral component of the phosphatidyl 3-kinase/AKT signaling pathway, with early evidence of activity in sarcomas. This multicenter, open-label, single-arm, phase II trial was conducted to assess the antitumor activity of ridaforolimus in patients with distinct subtypes of advanced sarcomas. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients with metastatic or unresectable soft tissue or bone sarcomas received ridaforolimus 12.5 mg administered as a 30-minute intravenous infusion once daily for 5 days every 2 weeks. The primary end point was clinical benefit response (CBR) rate (complete response or partial response [PR] or stable disease ≥ 16 weeks). Safety, progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), time to progression, and duration of response were also evaluated. RESULTS A total of 212 patients were treated in four separate histologic cohorts. In this heavily pretreated population, 61 patients (28.8%) achieved CBR. Median PFS was 15.3 weeks; median OS was 40 weeks. Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) confirmed response rate was 1.9%, with four patients achieving confirmed PR (two with osteosarcoma, one with spindle cell sarcoma, and one with malignant fibrous histiocytoma). Archival tumor protein markers analyzed were not correlated with CBR. Related adverse events were generally mild or moderate and consisted primarily of stomatitis, mucosal inflammation, mouth ulceration, rash, and fatigue. CONCLUSION Single-agent ridaforolimus in patients with advanced and pretreated sarcomas led to PFS results that compare favorably with historical metrics. A phase III trial based on these data will further define ridaforolimus activity in sarcomas.
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- International Institute of Clinical Studies, Sarcoma Oncology Center, Santa Monica, CA, USA
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Pappo AS, Patel SR, Crowley J, Reinke DK, Kuenkele KP, Chawla SP, Toner GC, Maki RG, Meyers PA, Chugh R, Ganjoo KN, Schuetze SM, Juergens H, Leahy MG, Geoerger B, Benjamin RS, Helman LJ, Baker LH. R1507, a monoclonal antibody to the insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor, in patients with recurrent or refractory Ewing sarcoma family of tumors: results of a phase II Sarcoma Alliance for Research through Collaboration study. J Clin Oncol 2011; 29:4541-7. [PMID: 22025149 DOI: 10.1200/jco.2010.34.0000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 252] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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PURPOSE The type 1 insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor (IGF-1R) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of the Ewing sarcoma family of tumors (ESFT). We conducted a multicenter phase II study of the fully human IGF-1R monoclonal antibody R1507 in patients with recurrent or refractory ESFT. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients ≥ 2 years of age with refractory or recurrent ESFT received R1507 at doses of 9 mg/kg intravenously one a week or 27 mg/kg intravenously every three weeks. Response was measured by using WHO criteria. Tumor imaging was performed every 6 weeks for 24 weeks and then every 12 weeks. RESULTS From December 2007 through April 2010, 115 eligible patients from 31 different institutions were enrolled. The median age was 25 years (range, 8 to 78 years). The location of the primary tumor was bone in 57% of patients and extraskeletal in 43% of patients. A total of 109 patients were treated with R1507 9 mg/kg/wk, and six patients were treated with 27 mg/kg/3 wk. The overall complete response/partial response rate was 10% (95% CI, 4.9% to 16.5%). The median duration of response was 29 weeks (range, 12 to 94 weeks), and the median overall survival was 7.6 months (95% CI, 6 to 9.7 months). Ten of 11 responses were observed in patients who presented with primary bone tumors (P = .016). The most common adverse events of grades 3 to 4 were pain (15%), anemia (8%), thrombocytopenia (7%), and asthenia (5%). CONCLUSION R1507 was a well-tolerated agent that had meaningful and durable benefit in a subgroup of patients with ESFT. The identification of markers that are predictive of a benefit is necessary to fully capitalize on this approach.
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Chugh R, Wathen JK, Patel SR, Maki RG, Meyers PA, Schuetze SM, Priebat DA, Thomas DG, Jacobson JA, Samuels BL, Benjamin RS, Baker LH. Efficacy of Imatinib in Aggressive Fibromatosis: Results of a Phase II Multicenter Sarcoma Alliance for Research through Collaboration (SARC) Trial. Clin Cancer Res 2010; 16:4884-91. [DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-10-1177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 166] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Rutkowski P, Van Glabbeke M, Rankin CJ, Ruka W, Rubin BP, Debiec-Rychter M, Lazar A, Gelderblom H, Sciot R, Lopez-Terrada D, Hohenberger P, van Oosterom AT, Schuetze SM. Imatinib mesylate in advanced dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans: pooled analysis of two phase II clinical trials. J Clin Oncol 2010; 28:1772-9. [PMID: 20194851 PMCID: PMC3040044 DOI: 10.1200/jco.2009.25.7899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 292] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2009] [Accepted: 11/03/2009] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) is a dermal sarcoma typically carrying a translocation between chromosomes 17 and 22 that generates functional platelet-derived growth factor B (PDGFB). PATIENTS AND METHODS Two distinct phase II trials of imatinib (400 to 800 mg daily) in patients with locally advanced or metastatic DFSP were conducted and closed prematurely, one in Europe (European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer [EORTC]) with 14-week progression-free rate as the primary end point and the other in North America (Southwest Oncology Group [SWOG]) with confirmed objective response rate as the primary end point. In the EORTC trial, confirmation of PDGFB rearrangement was required, and surgery was undertaken after 14 weeks if feasible. The SWOG study confirmed t(17;22) after enrollment. RESULTS Sixteen and eight patients were enrolled onto the EORTC and SWOG trials, respectively. Tumor size ranged from 1.2 to 49 cm. DFSP was located on head/neck, trunk, and limb in seven, 11, and six patients, respectively, and was classic, pigmented, and fibrosarcomatous DFSP in 13, one, and nine patients, respectively. Metastases were present in seven patients (lung involvement was present six patients). Eleven patients (4%) had partial response as best response, and four patients had progressive disease as best response. Median time to progression (TTP) was 1.7 years. Imatinib was stopped in 11 patients because of progression, one patient because of toxicity, and two patients after complete resection of disease. Median overall survival (OS) time has not been reached; 1-year OS rate was 87.5%. CONCLUSION Imatinib is active in DFSP harboring t(17;22) including fibrosarcomatous DFSP, with objective response rate approaching 50%. Response rates and TTP did not differ between patients taking 400 mg daily versus 400 mg twice a day.
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Roentgena 5, 02-781 Warsaw, Poland.
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Olmos D, Postel-Vinay S, Molife LR, Okuno SH, Schuetze SM, Paccagnella ML, Batzel GN, Yin D, Pritchard-Jones K, Judson I, Worden FP, Gualberto A, Scurr M, de Bono JS, Haluska P. Safety, pharmacokinetics, and preliminary activity of the anti-IGF-1R antibody figitumumab (CP-751,871) in patients with sarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma: a phase 1 expansion cohort study. Lancet Oncol 2010; 11:129-35. [PMID: 20036194 PMCID: PMC2941877 DOI: 10.1016/s1470-2045(09)70354-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 271] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Figitumumab is a fully human IgG2 monoclonal antibody targeting the insulin-like growth-factor-1 receptor (IGF-1R). Preclinical data suggest a dependence on insulin-like growth-factor signalling for sarcoma subtypes, including Ewing's sarcoma, and early reports show antitumour activity of IGF-1R-targeting drugs in these diseases. METHODS Between January, 2006, and August, 2008, patients with refractory, advanced sarcomas received figitumumab (20 mg/kg) in two single-stage expansion cohorts within a solid-tumour phase 1 trial. The first cohort (n=15) included patients with multiple sarcoma subtypes, age 18 years or older, and the second cohort (n=14) consisted of patients with refractory Ewing's sarcoma, age 9 years or older. The primary endpoint was to assess the safety and tolerability of figitumumab. Secondary endpoints included pharmacokinetic profiling and preliminary antitumour activity (best response by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumours [RECIST]) in evaluable patients who received at least one dose of medication. This study is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT00474760. FINDINGS 29 patients, 16 of whom had Ewing's sarcoma, were enrolled and received a total of 177 cycles of treatment (median 2, mean 6.1, range 1-24). Grade 3 deep venous thrombosis, grade 3 back pain, and grade 3 vomiting were each noted once in individual patients; one patient had grade 3 increases in aspartate aminotransferase and gammaglutamyltransferase concentrations. This patient also had grade 4 increases in alanine aminotransferase concentrations. The only other grade 4 adverse event was raised concentrations of uric acid, noted in one patient. Pharmacokinetics were comparable between patients with sarcoma and those with other solid tumours. 28 patients were assessed for response; two patients, both with Ewing's sarcoma, had objective responses (one complete response and one partial response) and eight patients had disease stabilisation (six with Ewing's sarcoma, one with synovial sarcoma, and one with fibrosarcoma) lasting 4 months or longer. INTERPRETATION Figitumumab is well tolerated and has antitumour activity in Ewing's sarcoma, warranting further investigation in this disease. FUNDING Pfizer Global Research and Development.
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- David Olmos
- The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and the Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, UK
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Beebe-Dimmer JL, Cetin K, Fryzek JP, Schuetze SM, Schwartz K. The epidemiology of malignant giant cell tumors of bone: an analysis of data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Program (1975-2004). Rare Tumors 2009; 1:e52. [PMID: 21139931 PMCID: PMC2994468 DOI: 10.4081/rt.2009.e52] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2009] [Revised: 11/04/2009] [Accepted: 11/05/2009] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Malignant giant cell tumor (GCT) of bone is a rare tumor with debilitating consequences. Patients with GCT of bone typically present with mechanical difficulty and pain as a result of bone destruction and are at an increased risk for fracture. Because of its unusual occurrence, little is known about the epidemiology of malignant GCT of bone. This report offers the first reliable population-based estimates of incidence, patient demographics, treatment course and survival for malignancy in GCT of bone in the United States. Using data from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program, we estimated the overall incidence and determinants of survival among patients diagnosed with malignant GCT of bone from 1975–2004. Cox proportional hazards regression was used to evaluate demographic and clinical determinants of survival among malignant GCT cases. Based on analyses of 117 malignant GCT cases, the estimated annual incidence in the United States was 1.6 per 10,000,000 persons per year. Incidence was highest among adults aged 20 to 44 years (2.4 per 10,000,000 per year) and most patients were diagnosed with localized (31.6%) or regional (29.9%) disease compared to distant disease (16.2%). Approximately 85% of patients survived at least 5 years, with survival poorest among older patients and those with evidence of distant metastases at time of diagnosis. The current study represents the largest systematic investigation examining the occurrence and distribution of malignancy in GCT of bone in the general U.S. population. We confirm its rare occurrence and suggest that age and stage at diagnosis are strongly associated with long-term survival.
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- Jennifer L Beebe-Dimmer
- Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University Department of Internal Medicine, Detroit, MI
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Wide surgical excision is the backbone of therapy for localized soft tissue sarcoma and often produces excellent results. Patients with a marginal resection of disease and high-grade or large tumors are at an increased risk of recurrence. Radiation therapy (external beam or brachytherapy) has been shown to reduce the risk of local recurrence of disease and should be offered to patients with large (>5 cm) or high-grade sarcomas, especially if a wide resection cannot be performed. Use of preoperative versus postoperative radiation therapy should be planned, in consultation with a radiation oncologist and a surgical oncologist, before resection of the sarcoma if possible. Chemotherapy using an anthracycline- and ifosfamide-based regimen may improve disease-free and overall survival rates. Chemotherapy appears to be most beneficial for patients with very large (> or = 10 cm), high-grade sarcomas of the extremity who are at a high risk of experiencing distant recurrence of disease. The effect of adjuvant chemotherapy on overall survival remains controversial. Research is greatly needed to identify the patients who are most likely to benefit from conventional chemotherapy, improve the treatment of retroperitoneal sarcomas, and identify novel agents that may impact the natural history of high-risk soft tissue sarcoma.
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- Scott M Schuetze
- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
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Hawkins DS, Conrad EU, Butrynski JE, Schuetze SM, Eary JF. [F-18]-fluorodeoxy-D-glucose-positron emission tomography response is associated with outcome for extremity osteosarcoma in children and young adults. Cancer 2009; 115:3519-25. [PMID: 19517457 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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BACKGROUND Response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy is 1 of the most powerful prognostic factors for extremity osteosarcoma. [F-18]-fluorodeoxy-D-glucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) is a noninvasive imaging modality that is used to predict histopathologic response. To determine the prognostic value of FDG-PET response for progression-free survival (PFS) in osteosarcoma, the authors of this report reviewed the University of Washington Medical Center experience. METHODS Forty patients with extremity osteosarcoma were evaluated by FDG-PET. All patients received neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy. FDG-PET standard uptake values (SUVs) before neoadjuvant chemotherapy (SUV1) and after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (SUV2) were analyzed and correlated with histopathologic response. RESULTS The median SUV1 was 6.8 (range, 3.0-24.1), the median SUV2 was 2.3 (range, 1.2-12.8), and the median SUV2 to SUV1 ratio (SUV2:1), was 0.36 (range, 0.12-1.10). A good FDG-PET response was defined as an SUV2<2.5 or an SUV2:1<or=0.5. FDG-PET responses according to SUV2 and SUV2:1 were concordant with histologic response in 58% and 68% of patients, respectively. SUV2 was associated with outcome (4-year PFS, 73% for SUV2<2.5 vs 39% for SUV2>or=2.5; P=.021). Both the initial disease stage and the histologic response were associated with outcome. CONCLUSIONS FDG-PET imaging of extremity osteosarcoma was correlated only partially with a histologic response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy. An SUV2<2.5 was associated with improved PFS. Future prospective studies are warranted to determine whether FDG-PET imaging may be used as a predictor of outcome independent of initial disease stage.
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- Douglas S Hawkins
- Department of Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Hospital, and Department of Orthopedics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105-0371, USA.
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Maki RG, D'Adamo DR, Keohan ML, Saulle M, Schuetze SM, Undevia SD, Livingston MB, Cooney MM, Hensley ML, Mita MM, Takimoto CH, Kraft AS, Elias AD, Brockstein B, Blachère NE, Edgar MA, Schwartz LH, Qin LX, Antonescu CR, Schwartz GK. Phase II study of sorafenib in patients with metastatic or recurrent sarcomas. J Clin Oncol 2009; 27:3133-40. [PMID: 19451436 PMCID: PMC2716936 DOI: 10.1200/jco.2008.20.4495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 401] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2008] [Accepted: 01/27/2009] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Since activity of sorafenib was observed in sarcoma patients in a phase I study, we performed a multicenter phase II study of daily oral sorafenib in patients with recurrent or metastatic sarcoma. PATIENTS AND METHODS We employed a multiarm study design, each representing a sarcoma subtype with its own Simon optimal two-stage design. In each arm, 12 patients who received 0 to 1 prior lines of therapy were treated (0 to 3 for angiosarcoma and malignant peripheral-nerve sheath tumor). If at least one Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) was observed, 25 further patients with that sarcoma subtype were accrued. Results Between October 2005 and November 2007, 145 patients were treated; 144 were eligible for toxicity and 122 for response. Median age was 55 years; female-male ratio was 1.8:1. The median number of cycles was 3. Five of 37 patients with angiosarcoma had a partial response (response rate, 14%). This was the only arm to meet the RECIST response rate primary end point. Median progression-free survival was 3.2 months; median overall survival was 14.3 months. Adverse events (typically dermatological) necessitated dose reduction for 61% of patients. Statistical modeling in this limited patient cohort indicated sorafenib toxicity was correlated inversely to patient height. There was no correlation between phosphorylated extracellular signal regulated kinase expression and response in six patients with angiosarcoma with paired pre- and post-therapy biopsies. CONCLUSION As a single agent, sorafenib has activity against angiosarcoma and minimal activity against other sarcomas. Further evaluation of sorafenib in these and possibly other sarcoma subtypes appears warranted, presumably in combination with cytotoxic or kinase-specific agents.
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- Robert G Maki
- Melanoma-Sarcoma Program, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Ave, Howard 909, New York, NY 10065, USA.
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Soft tissue sarcomas are a heterogeneous group of malignancies arising from mesenchymal tissues. A large number of new therapies are being evaluated in patients with sarcomas, and consensus criteria defining treatment responses are essential for comparison of results from studies completed by different research groups. The 1979 World Health Organization (WHO) handbook set forth operationally defined criteria for response evaluation in solid tumors that were updated in 2000 with the publication of the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST). There have been significant advances in tumor imaging, however, that are not reflected in the RECIST. For example, computed tomography (CT) slice thickness has been reduced from 10 mm to < or =2.5 mm, allowing for more reproducible and accurate measurement of smaller lesions. Combination of imaging techniques, such as positron emission tomography with fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (18FDG-PET) and CT can provide investigators and clinicians with both anatomical and functional information regarding tumors, and there is now a large body of evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of PET/CT and other newer imaging methods for the detection and staging of tumors as well as early determination of responses to therapy. The application of newer imaging methods has the potential to decrease both the sample sizes required for, and duration of, clinical trials by providing an early indication of therapeutic response that is well correlated with clinical outcomes, such as time to tumor progression or overall survival. The results summarized in this review support the conclusion that the RECIST and the WHO criteria for evaluation of response in solid tumors need to be modernized. In addition, there is a current need for prospective trials to compare new response criteria with established endpoints and to validate imaging-based response rates as surrogate endpoints for clinical trials of new agents for sarcoma and other solid tumors.
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- Scott M Schuetze
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, 1500 E. Medical Center Drive, C409 MIB, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-5843, USA. scotschu@umich
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Chordomas are rare, slowly growing, locally aggressive neoplasms of bone that arise from embryonic remnants of the notochord. These tumors typically occur in the axial skeleton and have a proclivity for the spheno-occipital region of the skull base and sacral regions. In adults, 50% of chordomas involve the sacrococcygeal region, 35% occur at the base of the skull near the spheno-occipital area, and 15% are found in the vertebral column. Craniocervical chordomas most often involve the dorsum sella, clivus, and nasopharynx. Chordomas are divided into conventional, chondroid, and dedifferentiated types. Conventional chordomas are the most common. They are characterized by the absence of cartilaginous or additional mesenchymal components. Chondroid chordomas contain both chordomatous and chondromatous features, and have a predilection for the spheno-occipital region of the skull base. This variant accounts for 5%-15% of all chordomas and up to 33% of cranial chordomas. Dedifferentiation or sarcomatous transformation occurs in 2%-8% of chordomas. This can develop at the onset of the disease or later. Aggressive initial therapy improves overall outcome. Patients who relapse locally have a poor prognosis but both radiation and surgery can be used as salvage therapy. Subtotal resection can result in a stable or improved status in as many as 50% of patients who relapse after primary therapy. Radiation therapy may also salvage some patients with local recurrence. One series reported a 2-year actuarial local control rate of 33% for patients treated with proton beam irradiation.
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- Rashmi Chugh
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, 24 Frank Lloyd Wright Drive, A3400, P.O. Box 483, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106, USA
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