The clinical significance of telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) promoter mutations, telomere length and O6-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) promoter methylation status in newly diagnosed and recurrent IDH-wildtype glioblastoma (GBM) patients (PTS): A large mono-institutional study.

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 2053-2053
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Lombardi ◽  
Silvia Giunco ◽  
Francesco Cavallin ◽  
Chiara Angelini ◽  
Mario Caccese ◽  
...  

2053 Background: the clinical significance of TERT promoter mutations, telomere length and their interactions with MGMT promoter methylation status in patients with IDH-wildtype GBM patients remain unclear. We performed a large mono-institutional study to better investigate their impact and their interaction on clinical outcomes Methods: TERT promoter mutations (C228T and C250T), relative telomere length (RTL) and MGMT methylation status were assessed in 278 newly diagnosed and in 65 recurrent IDH-wildtype GBM PTS which were treated at Veneto Institute of Oncology (Padua, Italy) from Dec 2016 to Jan 2020. We have retrospectively explored association between gene characteristics and neuroradiological response (RANO criteria), progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS). Telomere length was measured by monochrome multiplex PCR and RTL values were calculated as a telomere/single-copy gene ratio Results: characteristics of newly diagnosed GBM PTS were: median age 63 ys, ECOG PS 0-1 in 71% of PTS, radical surgery in 38%, 78% received radiation therapy plus TMZ, MGMT was methylated in 53%, TERT promoter was mutated in 80% (75% C228T, 25% C250T), median RTL was 1.57 (range 0.4-11.37). Objective response rate was reported in 15% of PTS, median OS was 15ms (95% CI 13-18ms), median PFS was 8ms (95% CI 7-9ms). At multivariable analysis, TERT promoter mutations and RTL were not associated with clinical outcomes; about OS, TERT promoter mutations and RTL reported a HR of 1.05 (95% CI 0.64-1.64) and 0.99 (95% CI 0.89-1.10), respectively; MGMT methylated tumors showed significant improved PFS and OS with a HR of 0.54 (95% CI 0.40-0.71) and 0.47 (95% CI 0.34-0.64), respectively. All interactions among MGMT status, TERT mutation status and RTL were not statistically significant. Characteristics of recurrent GBM PTS were: median age 55 ys, ECOG PS 0-1 in 60% of PTS, MGMTmet in 37%, TERT promoter mutations in 75% (75% C228T, 25% C250T), RTL was 1.67 (range 0.68-8.87). At multivariable analysis, only MGMT methylated tumors resulted significantly associated to prolonged OS (HR 0.16; 95% CI 0.07-0.40). No gene interaction was significant. Conclusions: for the first time worldwide, we analyzed the impact of TERT promoter mutations, RTL and MGMT methylation status in both newly diagnosed and recurrent IDH-wildtype GBM PTS. TERT promoter status and RTL were not associated with clinical outcomes at both diagnosis and relapse. MGMT promoter methylation status was the only prognostic factor in both cases. No significant interaction was demonstrated between TERT promoter mutations, RTL and MGMT methylation status.

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. ii1-ii2
Author(s):  
G Lombardi ◽  
S Giunco ◽  
F Cavallin ◽  
C Angelini ◽  
M Caccese ◽  
...  

Abstract BACKGROUND the clinical significance of TERT promoter mutations, telomere length and their interactions with MGMT promoter methylation status in patients with IDH-wildtype GBM patients remain unclear. We performed a large monoinstitutional study to better investigate their impact and their interaction on clinical outcomes MATERIAL AND METHODS TERT promoter mutations (C228T and C250T), relative telomere length (RTL) and MGMT methylation status were assessed in 278 newly diagnosed and in 65 recurrent IDH-wildtype GBM PTS which were treated at Veneto Institute of Oncology (Padua, Italy) from Dec 2016 to Jan 2020. We have retrospectively explored association between gene characteristics and neuroradiological response (RANO criteria), progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS). Telomere length was measured by monochrome multiplex PCR and RTL values were calculated as a telomere/single-copy gene ratio RESULTS characteristics of newly diagnosed GBM PTS were: median age 63 ys, ECOG PS 0–1 in 71% of PTS, radical surgery in 38%, 78% received radiation therapy plus TMZ, MGMT was methylated in 53%, TERT promoter was mutated in 80% (75% C228T, 25% C250T), median RTL was 1.57 (range 0.4–11.37). Objective response rate was reported in 15% of PTS, median OS was 15ms (95% CI 13-18ms), median PFS was 8ms (95% CI 7-9ms). At multivariable analysis, TERT promoter mutations and RTL were not associated with clinical outcomes; about OS, TERT promoter mutations and RTL reported a HR of 1.05 (95% CI 0.64–1.64) and 0.99 (95% CI 0.89–1.10), respectively; MGMT methylated tumors showed significant improved PFS and OS with a HR of 0.54 (95% CI 0.40–0.71) and 0.47 (95% CI 0.34–0.64), respectively. All interactions among MGMT status, TERT mutation status and RTL were not statistically significant. Characteristics of recurrent GBM PTS were: median age 55 ys, ECOG PS 0–1 in 60% of PTS, MGMTmet in 37%, TERT promoter mutations in 75% (75% C228T, 25% C250T), RTL was 1.67 (range 0.68–8.87). At multivariable analysis, only MGMT methylated tumors resulted significantly associated to prolonged OS (HR 0.16; 95% CI 0.07–0.40). No gene interaction was significant CONCLUSION for the first time worldwide, we analyzed the impact of TERT promoter mutations, RTL and MGMT methylation status in both newly diagnosed and recurrent IDH-wildtype GBM PTS. TERT promoter status and RTL were not associated with clinical outcomes at both diagnosis and relapse. MGMT promoter methylation status was the only prognostic factor in both cases. No significant interaction was demonstrated between TERT promoter mutations, RTL and MGMT methylation status


2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (Supplement_6) ◽  
pp. vi15-vi15
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Lombardi ◽  
Silvia Giunco ◽  
Francesco Cavallin ◽  
Chiara Angelini ◽  
Mario Caccese ◽  
...  

Abstract BACKGROUND the significance of TERT promoter mutations, telomere length and their interactions with MGMT methylation status in patients with IDH-wildtype GBM patients remain unclear. We performed a monoinstitutional study to better investigate their impact and their interaction on clinical outcomes. METHODS TERTmutations (C228T and C250T), relative telomere length (RTL) and MGMT methylation were assessed in 278 newly-diagnosed and in 65 recurrent IDH-wildtype GBM PTS which were treated from Dec2016 to Jan2020. We explored association between gene characteristics and neuroradiological response, PFS, OS. Telomere length was measured by monochrome multiplex PCR and RTL values were calculated as a telomere/single-copy gene ratio. RESULTS characteristics of newly diagnosed GBM PTS were: median age 63 ys, ECOG PS0-1 in 71% of PTS, radical surgery in 38%, 78% received radiation therapy plus TMZ, MGMTmet in 53%, TERT promoter was mutated in 80% (75% C228T, 25% C250T), median RTL was 1.57 (range 0.4-11.37). ORR was reported in 15% of PTS, medianOS was 15 ms (95% CI 13-18 ms), medianPFS was 8 ms (95% CI 7-9 ms). At multivariable analysis, TERT mutations and RTL were not associated with clinical outcomes; about OS, TERT mutations and RTL reported a HR of 1.05 (95% CI 0.64-1.64) and 0.99 (95% CI 0.89-1.10), respectively; MGMTmet tumors showed significant improved PFS and OS with a HR of 0.54(95% CI 0.40-0.71) and 0.47 (95% CI 0.34-0.64), respectively. All interactions among MGMT-status, TERT-mutation status and RTL were not statistically significant. Characteristics of recurrent GBM PTS were: median age 55 ys, ECOG PS0-1 in 60% of PTS, MGMTmet in 37%, TERT mutations in 75% (75% C228T, 25% C250T), RTL was 1.67 (range 0.68-8.87). At multivariable analysis, only MGMTmet tumors resulted significantly associated to prolonged OS(HR0.16;95%CI0.07-0.40). No gene interaction was significant. CONCLUSIONS we analyzed the impact of TERT mutations, RTL and MGMT in newly diagnosed and recurrent IDH-wildtype GBM PTS. TERT status and RTL were not associated with clinical outcomes. MGMT was the only prognostic factor. No significant interaction was demonstrated between TERT mutations, RTL and MGMT


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Quoc Khanh Le ◽  
Duyen Thi Do ◽  
Fang-Ying Chiu ◽  
Edward Kien Yee Yapp ◽  
Hui-Yuan Yeh ◽  
...  

Approximately 96% of patients with glioblastomas (GBM) have IDH1 wildtype GBMs, characterized by extremely poor prognosis, partly due to resistance to standard temozolomide treatment. O6-Methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) promoter methylation status is a crucial prognostic biomarker for alkylating chemotherapy resistance in patients with GBM. However, MGMT methylation status identification methods, where the tumor tissue is often undersampled, are time consuming and expensive. Currently, presurgical noninvasive imaging methods are used to identify biomarkers to predict MGMT methylation status. We evaluated a novel radiomics-based eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) model to identify MGMT promoter methylation status in patients with IDH1 wildtype GBM. This retrospective study enrolled 53 patients with pathologically proven GBM and tested MGMT methylation and IDH1 status. Radiomics features were extracted from multimodality MRI and tested by F-score analysis to identify important features to improve our model. We identified nine radiomics features that reached an area under the curve of 0.896, which outperformed other classifiers reported previously. These features could be important biomarkers for identifying MGMT methylation status in IDH1 wildtype GBM. The combination of radiomics feature extraction and F-core feature selection significantly improved the performance of the XGBoost model, which may have implications for patient stratification and therapeutic strategy in GBM.


2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. ii1-ii1
Author(s):  
Yasin Mamatjan ◽  
Jeffrey Zuccato ◽  
Fabio Moraes ◽  
Michael Cabanero ◽  
Wumairehan Shali ◽  
...  

Abstract EGFR-mutant lung adenocarcinomas (EGFRm-LUAD) have a higher risk of developing brain metastases (BM) compared to non-EGFR-mutant tumors. BM development has significant prognostic impact and leads to poorer patient survival. MGMT promoter methylation is known to determine response to therapy in other cancer types including intracranial gliomas but has not been investigated in EGFRm-LUAD BM. This work aims to assess whether MGMT promoter methylation predicts patient survival or BM development in EGFRm-LUAD patients. A large cohort of 90 primary EGFRm-LUAD tumors, of which 33 (37%) developed BM, were profiled using the Illumina Infinium MethylationEPIC Bead chip. Using the previously reported MGMT-STP27 approach that uses two CpG sites to predict MGMT methylation status, Cox modeling was performed to assess whether MGMT methylation status correlates with overall survival independent of other clinical factors. MGMT methylation significantly predicted poorer survival in EGFRm-LUAD patients that developed BM (p=0.0003) and did not develop BM (p=0.003). A multivariate cox analysis, adjusting for cancer stage and smoking status as potential confounders, showed that MGMT methylation (HR=6.2, 95%CI:2.2–17.4, p=0.0005) and BM development (HR=2.6, 95%CI:1.3–5.3, p=0.007) were both independently predictive of worse overall survival in EGFRm-LUAD patients. This finding of poorer survival in MGMT methylated EGFRm-LUAD is validated in an independent LUAD patient cohort. Total mutation burden, calculated by the number of mutations per megabase of DNA, was substantially higher in MGMT methylated tumours with an interquartile range (IQR) of 58 (30–71) compared to MGMT unmethylated tumours with the IQR of 5.5 (4.3–6.1) resulting p-value of 0.01 for this comparison. Overall, this work shows that MGMT promoter methylation status is an important prognostic biomarker in LUAD patients. MGMT promoter methylation status in EGFRm–LUAD patients with BM may be used to guide patient treatment with potentially a greater extent of treatment for high-risk patients.


2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (Supplement_6) ◽  
pp. vi143-vi144
Author(s):  
Thidathip Wongsurawat ◽  
Piroon Jejaroenpun ◽  
Annick DeLoose ◽  
David Ussery ◽  
Duah Alkam ◽  
...  

Abstract Molecular classification of diffuse glioma enables more-precise diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment decisions. Currently, combination of two molecular markers, isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 and 2 (IDH1/ IDH2) gene mutation information and O6-Methylguanine-DNA-methyltranferase (MGMT) methylation status, are the main prognostic biomarkers of newly diagnosed diffuse gliomas. Furthermore, an accurate interpretation of MGMT-promoter methylation status is essential to determining which patients benefit from temozolomide (TMZ) therapy. The presence of an IDH mutation can be easily tested by PCR or next generation sequencing. However, there remains controversy with the identification of MGMT-promoter methylation status since there exists variable degrees of methylation and no clear consensus on cutoff values for “methylated” or “unmethylated” have been defined. To be best suited for routine clinical setting and research use, the optimal test should be reproducible, readily available, and timely. Therefore, we explored the feasibility of single-molecule nanopore third generation sequencing technology to comprehensively assess both mutation and methylation status simultaneously. This technology allows methylation detection directly from the native DNA sequence without requiring bisulfite treatment which reduces processing time. To specifically study IDH1, IDH2, and MGMT-promoter loci, we combined the CRISPR-Cas9 system to cut desired DNA fragments in a non–amplification dependent fashion. In addition, a data analysis pipeline was developed to quantitatively detect methylation. We applied our approach on human DNA controls, glioma cell lines and 4 patient brain tumor samples and were enabled to assess mutation and methylation status of targeted loci within 1.5 days. The promise of CRISPR-Cas9-targeted nanopore sequencing in accelerating and improving the molecular diagnostics of diffuse glioma will be illustrated in this meeting. These efforts are in line with improving precision medicine and can be applied to all cancer types.


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