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Targeted Toxic Therapy:
Identifying Platinum Resistance

Boone Goodgame, M.D.

Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis.


Introduction

•        Platinum based doublets are standard for patients with advanced NSCLC and good performance status.

•        40%-60% of patients NSCLC progress during platinum based therapy, while some have excellent responses.

{Schiller, Harrington et al.; N Engl J Med, 2002}

•        Platinum doublets have a marginally increased RR (17%) vs third generation non-platinum doublets but OS is not improved.

{D'Addario, Pintilie et al.; J Clin Oncol, 2005}


Key Clinical Question:

•        Which patients are most likely to benefit from these effective therapies, and which patients should be offered alternatives?


Overview

•        Fundamentals of platinum based DNA damage and repair.

•        Identifying platinum resistant NSCLC patients.

–    BRCA1

–    ERCC1

•     Germline polymorphisms

•     Tumor expression by mRNA

•     Immunohistochemistry

–    Polymorphisms in ERCC2 & XRCC1


The DNA repair paradox

•        Decreased DNA repair capacity increases cancer susceptibility and cancer aggressiveness.

 

•        Decreased DNA repair capacity increases susceptibility to platinums.


Mechanism of platinum DNA damage

•        DNA damage is the primary mechanism of platinum cytotoxicity

•        Three different types of lesions

–    Monoadducts

–    intrastrand crosslinks

–    interstrand crosslinks

 

 

 

 

 

 

{Rabik and Dolan; Cancer Treat Rev, 2006}



Fundamentals of DNA Repair

•        Base excision repair (BER)

–    e.g. excision of uracil and replace with thymine

•        Mismatch repair

–    excision of incorrectly paired nucleotides

•        Nucleotide excision repair (NER)

–    Essential NER – independent of transcription

–    Transcription coupled NER

•        Homologous Recombination Repair (HRR)

–    Repair of double strand breaks


Essential NER

•        recognition of damage

•        incision of DNA

•        excision of oligonucleotides (25 – 30 nucleotides)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

{Friedberg; Nat Rev Cancer, 2001}



Transcription coupled NER

Excision Repair System

{Rosell, Cobo et al.; Lung Cancer, 2005}

Clinically important mediators of DNA repair for platinum based damage

•        Essential NER

–    DNA unwinding: ERCC2 (XPD)

–    Incision of DNA: ERCC1 (XPF)

•        Transcription coupled NER

–    BRCA1

•        Base Excision Repair

–    XRCC1

General mechanisms of platinum resistance

•        Detoxification

•        Inhibitors of apoptosis

•        DNA methylation

•        Changes in influx/efflux

•        Increased DNA repair capacity

 

{Rabik and Dolan; Cancer Treat Rev, 2006}

Increased DNA repair capacity increases resistance to platinums in multiple malignancies

•        Ovarian: Platinum resistance correlates with elevated expression of XPA, XPB, & ERCC1 in patient tumors.

•        Gastric: correlation between cisplatin resistance and ERCC1 mRNA levels.

•        Testicular cancer (very responsive to cisplatin) has low levels of XPA and ERCC1-XPF.

•        In breast and ovarian cell lines BRCA1 expression increases platinum & radiation resistance.

{Rabik and Dolan; Cancer Treat Rev, 2006}

Established mediators of platinum resistance in NSCLC

•        BRCA1

•        ERCC1

–   Germline polymorphisms

–   Tumor expression by mRNA

–   Immunohistochemistry

•        Polymorphisms in ERCC2 & XRCC1

BRCA1

•        In a breast cancer cell line low BRCA1 mRNA expression increased sensitivity to cisplatin and etoposide, but increased resistance to paclitaxel and vincristine.

•        In a BRCA1-negative cell line, reconstitution of wild-type BRCA1 led to a a 20-fold increase in cisplatin resistance and, in contrast, in a 1000–10 000-fold increase in sensitivity to antimicrotubule drugs.

•        Low BRCA1 mRNA levels in sporadic breast cancer were associated with a higher frequency of distant metastases.

{Taron, Rosell et al.; Hum Mol Genet, 2004}

BRCA1 mRNA expression levels and survival in NSCLC patients treated with neo-adjuvant gemcitabine & cisplatin.

•         Total 55 pts; Bottom: N=15, Middle=28, Top=12;  p=0.01

{Taron, Rosell et al.; Hum Mol Genet, 2004}

ERCC1 (Excision repair cross-complementing 1)

•        Essential component of NER

•        Assessed by:

–    Functional germ-line polymorphisms

–    Expression levels by mRNA

–    Expressional levels by IHC

Polymorphisms of ERCC1 and survival in cisplatin treated NSCLC.

•        C118T does not change the encoded amino acid but does affect transcription levels.

•        Two studies correlated with survival in advanced NSCLC treated with cisplatin doublets.

 

–    109 patients; 50% wild type; survivals were 16 months vs 9 months with either 1 or 2 alleles (p=0.0058)

 

–    62 patients; 18% wild type; survivals were 9.7 months and >18 months (p=0.04)

 

{Ryu, Hong et al.; Lung Cancer, 2004}

{Isla, Sarries et al.; Ann Oncol, 2004}

Polymorphisms of ERCC1 and survival in cisplatin treated NSCLC.

•        A third study found no correlation with C118T & survival

–    128 patients, 21% wild type, survivals were 18 months & 13 months (p=0.41)

 

•        A separate polymorphism C8092A was associated with survival in this study

–    13 months vs 22 months (p=0.006).

 

 

 

{Zhou, Gurubhagavatula et al.; Clin Cancer Res, 2004}

 

ERCC1 mRNA levels in advanced NSCLC treated with gemcitabine-cisplatin.

•        56 patients with advanced NSCLC.

•        Low vs high ERCC1 mRNA

–    RR:  52% and 36% (p = NS), MS:  15 months and 5 months (P < 0.001)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

{Lord, Brabender et al.; Clin

Cancer Res, 2002}

 

{Rosell, et.al.; ASCO; 2005}

 

{Rosell, et.al.; ASCO; 2005}

ERCC1 mRNA levels in resected NSCLC

•        51 resected tumors, no chemotherapy

•        no correlation between ERCC1 levels and stage; higher ERCC1 in adenocarcinomas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

{Simon, Sharma et al.; Chest, 2005}

ERCC1 by immunohistochemistry in resected NSCLC

•        761 patients from the IALT trial who had tissue available

–    1867 patients with completely resected stages I-III NSCLC randomized to observation or cisplatin plus etoposide or vinorelbine.

–    Immunostaining with monoclonal antibody to ERCC1 interpreted by two blinded pathologists.

–    Score calculated by multiplying intensity of staining with proportion of positive nuclei.

–    Median score defined high vs low ERCC1 expression.

 

 

{Olaussen, Dunant et al.; N Engl J Med, 2006}

ERCC1 in IALT Results

•        ERCC1 was more likely to be positive in:
  Squamous cell carcinoma
  Age > 55

•        For the study population as a whole, ERCC1 had no prognostic value.

 

 

•         {Olaussen, Dunant et al.; N Engl J Med, 2006}

 

{Olaussen, Dunant et al.; N Engl J Med, 2006}

Polymorphisms in ERCC2 and XRCC1

•        Highly conserved SNP’s that likely affect DNA repair activity.

•        ERCC2 (Asp312Asn) and XRCC1 (Arg 399Gln) retrospectively evaluated in 103 NSCLC patients treated with platinum based doublets.

 

 

 

 

 

{Gurubhagavatula, Liu et al.; J Clin Oncol, 2004}

The Utility of DNA Repair Gene Polymorphisms in Predicting Outcomes in Patients with Advanced NSCLC Receiving Systemic Chemotherapy

Objectives

•        Aim 1

–    To validate the differential efficacy (disease control) of a platinum based doublet in advanced NSCLC and polymorphisms in XPD and XRCC

•        Aim 2

–    To assess the impact of polymorphisms in XPD and XRCC in patients with advanced NSCLC receiving a non platinum doublet

•        Aim 3

–    To correlate the tissue ERCC expression and the differential efficacy (disease control) of a platinum based doublet in advanced NSCLC

 

Summary

•        Decreased DNA repair capacity increases malignant potential but also increases sensitivity to platinum agents.

•        BRCA1 expression conveys platinum resistance but susceptibility to anti-microtubule drugs.

•        ERCC1 expression by mRNA or IHC predicts platinum sensitivity in NSCLC.

•        SNP’s in ERCC2 & XRCC1 may provide a non-invasive means of identifying platinum resistance.

 

References

 

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