Guangdong Lung Cancer Institute, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
School of Medicine, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
J Immunother Cancer. 2021 Apr;9(4). doi: 10.1136/jitc-2020-002312.
Multiple primary lung cancer (MPLC) remains a tough challenge to diagnose and treat. Although neoadjuvant immunotherapy has shown promising results in early stage non-small cell lung cancer, whether such modality can benefit all primary lesions remains unclear. Herein, we performed integrated multiomics analysis in one patient with early stage MPLC with remarkable tumor shrinkage in a solid nodule and no response in two subsolid nodules after treatment with three cycles of neoadjuvant pembrolizumab. Genomic heterogeneity was observed among responding nodules with high levels of infiltrating CD8 and CD68 immune cells. Substantially downregulated human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-related genes and impaired T lymphocyte function were observed in non-responding nodules. A larger proportion of infiltrating tissue resident memory T cells (Trm) along with high T cell receptor repertoire clonality in responding nodules were validated as predictive and prognostic biomarkers in multiple cancer types using external public datasets. These results suggested that neoadjuvant programmed death 1 (PD-1)/programmed death ligand 1 inhibitors alone may not be an optimal therapeutic strategy for MPLC due to disparities in genomic alterations and immune microenvironment among different lesions. Additionally, we postulate that increased infiltration of Trm may be a unique marker of early immune responses to PD-1 blockade.
多原发肺癌(MPLC)的诊断和治疗仍然是一个难题。尽管新辅助免疫治疗在早期非小细胞肺癌中显示出了有希望的结果,但这种方式是否能使所有原发性病变受益尚不清楚。在此,我们对一名 MPLC 早期患者进行了综合多组学分析,该患者在接受三周期新辅助派姆单抗治疗后,实性结节显著缩小,但两个亚实性结节无反应。在有高浸润 CD8 和 CD68 免疫细胞的反应性结节中观察到基因组异质性。在无反应性结节中观察到人类白细胞抗原(HLA)相关基因显著下调和 T 淋巴细胞功能受损。在使用外部公共数据集的多种癌症类型中,验证了反应性结节中浸润组织驻留记忆 T 细胞(Trm)的更大比例以及高 T 细胞受体库克隆性作为预测和预后生物标志物。这些结果表明,由于不同病变之间的基因组改变和免疫微环境存在差异,单独使用新辅助程序性死亡 1(PD-1)/程序性死亡配体 1 抑制剂可能不是 MPLC 的最佳治疗策略。此外,我们推测 Trm 的浸润增加可能是对 PD-1 阻断的早期免疫反应的独特标志物。