PI3K/mTOR signaling in mesothelioma patients treated with induction chemotherapy followed by extrapleural pneumonectomy

Autor: Walter Weder, Rolf A. Stahel, Alex Soltermann, Svenja Thies, Mayura Meerang, Byron K.Y. Bitanihirwe, Holger Moch, Ghassan Allo, Emanuela Felley-Bosco, Marc de Perrot, Martina Friess, Isabelle Opitz, Lukas Frischknecht, Ming-Sound Tsao, Burkhardt Seifert
Přispěvatelé: University of Zurich, Opitz, Isabelle
Rok vydání: 2014
Předmět:
Male
Mesothelioma
Pathology
10255 Clinic for Thoracic Surgery
Deoxycytidine
Cohort Studies
Immunoenzyme Techniques
Glutamates
Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols
Medicine
Pneumonectomy
In Situ Hybridization
Fluorescence

Tissue microarray
biology
TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases
Remission Induction
Induction Chemotherapy
Middle Aged
Prognosis
Combined Modality Therapy
3. Good health
Survival Rate
Pemetrexed
Oncology
Multimodality treatment
Ki-67
2730 Oncology
Female
medicine.drug
Signal Transduction
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Guanine
Phosphatase and tensin homologue
Pleural Neoplasms
610 Medicine & health
10049 Institute of Pathology and Molecular Pathology
Biomarkers
Tumor

PTEN
Humans
Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/mammalian target of rapamycin
Survival rate
Survival analysis
PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway
Aged
Neoplasm Staging
business.industry
PTEN Phosphohydrolase
Induction chemotherapy
10060 Epidemiology
Biostatistics and Prevention Institute (EBPI)

medicine.disease
Gemcitabine
10022 Division of Surgical Research
2740 Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Tissue Array Analysis
10032 Clinic for Oncology and Hematology
Cancer research
biology.protein
Cisplatin
Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase
business
Follow-Up Studies
Zdroj: Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study o
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0000000000000055
Popis: Introduction: The prognostic significance of activity biomarkers within the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway was assessed in two independent cohorts of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) patients uniformly treated with a multimodal approach. We specifically assessed expression signatures in a unique set of pre- and postchemotherapy tumor samples. Methods: Biomarker expression was assessed in samples of two independent cohorts of 107 (cohort 1) and 46 (cohort 2) MPM cases uniformly treated with platinum-based induction chemotherapy followed by extrapleural pneumonectomy from two different institutions, assembled on tissue microarrays. Expression levels of phosphatase and tensin homologue (PTEN), phospho-mTOR, and p-S6 in addition to marker of proliferation (Ki-67) and apoptosis (cleaved caspase-3) were evaluated by immunohistochemistry and correlated with overall survival (OAS) and progression-free survival (PFS). To assess PTEN genomic status, fluorescence in situ hybridization was performed. Results: Survival analysis showed that high p-S6 and Ki-67 expression in samples of treatment naive patients of cohort 1 was associated with shorter PFS ( p = 0.02 and p = 0.04, respectively). High Ki-67 expression after chemotherapy remained associated with shorter PFS ( p = 0.03) and OAS ( p = 0.02). Paired comparison of marker expression in samples before and after induction chemotherapy of cohort 1 revealed that decreased cytoplasmic PTEN and increased phospho-mTOR expression was associated with a worse OAS ( p = 0.04 and p = 0.03, respectively). Conclusions: These novel data reveal a prognostic significance of expression changes of PI3K/mTOR pathway components during induction chemotherapy if confirmed in other patient cohorts and support the growing evidence to target the PI3K/mTOR pathway in the treatment of MPM.
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