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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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     4.     Friedberg EC: How nucleotide excision repair protects against cancer. Nat Rev Cancer 1:22-33, 2001

     5.     Rosell R, Cobo M, Isla D, et al: Applications of genomics in NSCLC. Lung Cancer 50 Suppl 2:S33-40, 2005

     6.     Husain A, He G, Venkatraman ES, et al: BRCA1 up-regulation is associated with repair-mediated resistance to cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II). Cancer Res 58:1120-3, 1998

     7.     Taron M, Rosell R, Felip E, et al: BRCA1 mRNA expression levels as an indicator of chemoresistance in lung cancer. Hum Mol Genet 13:2443-9, 2004

     8.     Ryu JS, Hong YC, Han HS, et al: Association between polymorphisms of ERCC1 and XPD and survival in non-small-cell lung cancer patients treated with cisplatin combination chemotherapy. Lung Cancer 44:311-6, 2004

     9.     Isla D, Sarries C, Rosell R, et al: Single nucleotide polymorphisms and outcome in docetaxel-cisplatin-treated advanced non-small-cell lung cancer. Ann Oncol 15:1194-203, 2004

     10.   Zhou W, Gurubhagavatula S, Liu G, et al: Excision repair cross-complementation group 1 polymorphism predicts overall survival in advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients treated with platinum-based chemotherapy. Clin Cancer Res 10:4939-43, 2004

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