Multicenter validation of an RNA-based assay to predict anti-PD-1 disease control in patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: the PREDAPT study

Autor: Howard L McLeod, A Dimitrios Colevas, Georges Azzi, Kevin C Flanagan, Douglas Adkins, Jessica Ley, Ezra E W Cohen, James Wade, Jon Earls, Jeffrey Hiken, Rachel L Wellinghoff, Michelle M Ponder, William H Westra, Vera Vavinskaya, Leisa Sutton, Ida Deichaite, Orlan K Macdonald, Karim Welaya, Andrew W Pippas, Jennifer Slim, Bruce Bank, Xingwei Sui, Steven E Kossman, Todd D Shenkenberg, Warren L Alexander, Katharine A Price, David N Messina, Jarret I Glasscock, Eric J Duncavage
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, Vol 12, Iss 11 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2051-1426
DOI: 10.1136/jitc-2024-009573
Popis: Background Despite advances in cancer care and detection, >65% of patients with squamous cell cancer of the head and neck (HNSCC) will develop recurrent and/or metastatic disease. The prognosis for these patients is poor with a 5-year overall survival of 39%. Recent treatment advances in immunotherapy, including immune checkpoint inhibitors like pembrolizumab and nivolumab, have resulted in clinical benefit in a subset of patients. There is a critical clinical need to identify patients who benefit from these antiprogrammed cell death protein 1 (anti-PD-1) immune checkpoint inhibitors.Methods Here, we report findings from a multicenter observational study, PREDicting immunotherapy efficacy from Analysis of Pre-treatment Tumor biopsies (PREDAPT), conducted across 17 US healthcare systems. PREDAPT aimed to validate OncoPrism-HNSCC, a clinical biomarker assay predictive of disease control in patients with recurrent or metastatic HNSCC treated with anti-PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitors as a single agent (monotherapy) and in combination with chemotherapy (chemo-immunotherapy). The test used RNA-sequencing data and machine learning models to score each patient and place them into groups of low, medium, or high.Results The OncoPrism-HNSCC prediction significantly correlated with disease control in both the monotherapy cohort (n=62, p=0.004) and the chemo-immunotherapy cohort (n=50, p=0.01). OncoPrism-HNSCC also significantly predicted progression-free survival in both cohorts (p=0.015 and p=0.037, respectively). OncoPrism-HNSCC had more than threefold higher specificity than programmed death-ligand 1 combined positive score and nearly fourfold higher sensitivity than tumor mutational burden for predicting disease control.Conclusions Here, we demonstrate the clinical validity of the OncoPrism-HNSCC assay in identifying patients with disease control in response to anti-PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitors.Trial registration number NCT04510129.
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