Canadian National Centres of Excellence-Exactis Innovations, Montreal, QC H3T 1Y6, Canada.
Consortium de Recherche en Oncologie Clinique du Québec (Q-CROC), Quebec, QC G1V 3X8, Canada.
Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Dec 19;25(1):43. doi: 10.3390/ijms25010043.
Single-agent regorafenib is approved in Canada for metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients who have failed previous lines of therapy. Identifying prognostic biomarkers is key to optimizing therapeutic strategies for these patients. In this clinical study (NCT01949194), we evaluated the safety and efficacy of single-agent regorafenib as a second-line therapy for mCRC patients who received it after failing first-line therapy with an oxaliplatin or irinotecan regimen with or without bevacizumab. Using various omics approaches, we also investigated putative biomarkers of response and resistance to regorafenib in metastatic lesions and blood samples in the same cohort. Overall, the safety profile of regorafenib seemed similar to the CORRECT trial, where regorafenib was administered as ≥ 2 lines of therapy. While the mutational landscape showed typical mutation rates for the top five driver genes (APC, KRAS, BRAF, PIK3CA, and TP53), KRAS mutations were enriched in intrinsically resistant lesions. Additional exploration of genomic-phenotype associations revealed several biomarker candidates linked to unfavorable prognoses in patients with mCRC using various approaches, including pathway analysis, cfDNA profiling, and copy number analysis. However, further research endeavors are necessary to validate the potential utility of these promising genes in understanding patients' responses to regorafenib treatment.
单药regorafenib 在加拿大被批准用于转移性结直肠癌(mCRC)患者,这些患者在接受先前的治疗方案后已经失败。确定预后生物标志物是优化这些患者治疗策略的关键。在这项临床研究(NCT01949194)中,我们评估了单药regorafenib 作为二线治疗方案用于 mCRC 患者的安全性和有效性,这些患者在接受一线奥沙利铂或伊立替康方案联合或不联合贝伐珠单抗治疗后出现进展。我们还使用各种组学方法,在同一队列的转移性病变和血液样本中研究了regorafenib 的反应和耐药的潜在生物标志物。总体而言,regorafenib 的安全性与 CORRECT 试验相似,在该试验中,regorafenib 作为≥2 线治疗方案给药。虽然突变景观显示了前五个驱动基因(APC、KRAS、BRAF、PIK3CA 和 TP53)的典型突变率,但 KRAS 突变在内在耐药性病变中富集。进一步探索基因组-表型相关性揭示了使用多种方法(包括通路分析、cfDNA 分析和拷贝数分析)与 mCRC 患者不良预后相关的几个生物标志物候选物。然而,需要进一步的研究努力来验证这些有前途的基因在理解患者对 regorafenib 治疗反应中的潜在应用价值。