Sung Ji-Youn, Park Dong-Won, Lee Seung-Hyeun
Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Korea.
Division of Pulmonary Medicine and Allergy, Department Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Korea.
Biomedicines. 2022 Aug 29;10(9):2109. doi: 10.3390/biomedicines10092109.
This study aimed to determine the association between TMB and treatment outcomes in patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-mutated lung cancer that were treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). The TMB was assessed using a 409-gene targeted next-generation sequencing panel. We compared the response rate (RR), progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), and frequency of secondary T790M mutations among the different TMB groups. The median TMB of the study population (n = 88) was 3.36/megabases. We divided 52 (59%) and 36 (41%) patients into the low and high TMB groups, respectively. A high TMB level was significantly associated with liver metastasis and more advanced stage (all p < 0.05). RR was significantly lower in the high TMB group than that of the low TMB group (50.0% vs. 80.7%, all p = 0.0384). In multivariate analysis, high TMB was independently associated with a shorter PFS (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.80, p = 0.0427) and shorter OS (HR = 2.05, p = 0.0397) than that of the low TMB group. Further, high TMB was independently associated with decreased T790M mutation development. These results suggest that high TMB may be a predictive biomarker for adverse treatment outcomes and represent a patients’ subgroup warranting tailored therapeutic approaches.
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