Acquired resistance to osimertinib in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer: mechanisms and clinical outcomes
Open Access
- 1 September 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Zeitschrift für Krebsforschung und Klinische Onkologie
- Vol. 146 (9), 2427-2433
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00432-020-03239-1
Abstract
Purpose Osimertinib, a third-generation epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine-kinase inhibitor (EGFR-TKI), has demonstrated substantial clinical benefit in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who were resistant to early-generation EGFR-TKIs and had acquired a T790M mutation. The aim of our study was to identify the mechanisms underlying resistance to osimertinib and to correlate them with clinical outcomes. Methods We retrospectively analyzed patients with advanced NSCLC who received osimertinib for T790M-mutated acquired resistance to prior EGFR-TKIs between March 1, 2017 and December 31, 2018. Patients with paired molecular data of pre-osimertinib and after resistance development, which were not confirmed with small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) transformation, were included in the molecular analysis set. Results Of 49 patients evaluated in the molecular analysis set, 24 patients maintained T790M mutation, while 25 patients exhibited T790M-loss. Molecular modifications were identified in 27 of 49 patients including EGFR acquired mutations (C797S, C796S, G796S, V802I, V834L, E758D and G724S), non-EGFR-dependent mutations (PIK3CA, ALK, BRAF, KRAS and TP53), EGFR amplification and MET amplification. At data cutoff, median progression-free survival (PFS) was 9.3 months in the T790M-retain group compared with 7.8 months in T790M-loss patients (P = 0.053). Median PFS was significantly longer in patients with EGFR-dependent resistance mechanism (13.5 months) than in those with alternative pathway activation (8.2 months; P = 0.012). Conclusions The study revealed heterogeneous mechanisms of resistance to osimertinib in advanced NSCLC patients and their association with clinical outcomes. Patients who maintained T790M mutation or with EGFR-dependent resistance mechanism had longer clinical outcome benefits.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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