Elvebakken Hege, Hjortland Geir Olav, Garresori Herish, Andresen Per Arne, Janssen Emiel A M, Vintermyr Olav Karsten, Lothe Inger M B, Sorbye Halfdan
Department of Oncology, Ålesund Hospital, Møre og Romsdal Hospital Trust, Ålesund, Norway.
Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
J Neuroendocrinol. 2023 Apr;35(4):e13256. doi: 10.1111/jne.13256. Epub 2023 Apr 5.
High-grade gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (HG GEP-NEN) typically disseminate early. Treatment of metastatic disease has limited benefit and prognosis is generally discouraging. Data on the clinical impact of mutations in HG GEP-NEN are scarce. There is an unmet need for reliable biomarkers to predict treatment outcome and prognosis in metastatic HG GEP-NEN. Patients with metastatic HG GEP-NEN diagnosed at three centres were selected for KRAS-, BRAF mutation and microsatellite instability (MSI) analyses. Results were linked to treatment outcome and overall survival. After pathological re-evaluation, 83 patients met inclusion criteria: 77 (93%) GEP neuroendocrine carcinomas (NEC) and six (7%) GEP neuroendocrine tumours (NET) G3. NEC harboured higher frequency of mutations than NET G3. Colon NEC harboured a particular high frequency of BRAF mutations (63%). Immediate disease progression on first-line chemotherapy was significantly higher for NEC with BRAF mutation (73%) versus wild-type (27%) (p = .016) and for colonic primary (65%) versus other NEC (28%) (p = .011). Colon NEC had a significant shorter PFS compared to other primary sites, a finding independent of BRAF status. Immediate disease progression was particularly frequent for BRAF mutated colon NEC (OR 10.2, p = .007). Surprisingly, BRAF mutation did not influence overall survival. KRAS mutation was associated with inferior overall survival for the whole NEC population (HR 2.02, p = .015), but not for those given first-line chemotherapy. All long-term survivors (>24 m) were double wild-type. Three NEC cases (4.8%) were MSI. Colon NEC with BRAF mutation predicted immediate disease progression on first-line chemotherapy, but did not affect PFS or OS. Benefit of first-line platinum/etoposide treatment seems limited for colon NEC, especially for BRAF mutated cases. KRAS mutations did not influence treatment efficacy nor survival for patients receiving first-line chemotherapy. Both frequency and clinical impact of KRAS/BRAF mutations in digestive NEC differ from prior results on digestive adenocarcinoma.
高级别胃肠胰神经内分泌肿瘤(HG GEP-NEN)通常早期就会发生播散。转移性疾病的治疗益处有限,预后通常不容乐观。关于HG GEP-NEN中突变的临床影响的数据很少。对于预测转移性HG GEP-NEN的治疗结果和预后,迫切需要可靠的生物标志物。选择在三个中心诊断的转移性HG GEP-NEN患者进行KRAS、BRAF突变和微卫星不稳定性(MSI)分析。结果与治疗结果和总生存期相关。经过病理重新评估,83例患者符合纳入标准:77例(93%)为胃肠胰神经内分泌癌(NEC),6例(7%)为胃肠胰神经内分泌瘤(NET)G3。NEC的突变频率高于NET G3。结肠NEC的BRAF突变频率特别高(63%)。BRAF突变的NEC一线化疗后立即疾病进展的发生率(73%)显著高于野生型(27%)(p = 0.016),结肠原发性NEC(65%)高于其他NEC(28%)(p = 0.011)。与其他原发部位相比,结肠NEC的无进展生存期显著缩短,这一发现与BRAF状态无关。BRAF突变的结肠NEC立即疾病进展尤为常见(OR 10.2,p = 0.007)。令人惊讶的是,BRAF突变并不影响总生存期。KRAS突变与整个NEC群体的总生存期较差相关(HR 2.02,p = 0.015),但对于接受一线化疗的患者则不然。所有长期存活者(>24个月)均为双野生型。3例NEC病例(4.8%)为MSI。BRAF突变的结肠NEC预测一线化疗后立即疾病进展,但不影响无进展生存期或总生存期。一线铂类/依托泊苷治疗对结肠NEC的益处似乎有限,尤其是对于BRAF突变的病例。KRAS突变不影响接受一线化疗患者的治疗疗效和生存期。消化NEC中KRAS/BRAF突变的频率和临床影响均与先前消化腺癌的结果不同。