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Endocrine Abstracts (2022) 89 C9 | DOI: 10.1530/endoabs.89.C9

1Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA; 2Perthera, Inc, McLean, VA, USA; 3NYU Langone Health, New York, NY; 4The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, Manhattan Beach, CA; 5Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.


Background: Capecitabine and temozolomide (CAPTEM) is a common regimen for the treatment of metastatic, well-differentiated pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs). However, it is unknown whether certain genomic profiles predict response to CAPTEM. PNETs often contain mutations in MEN1, ATRX, DAXX, and the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway. We sought to determine whether the mutational status of these genes may correlate with progression-free survival (PFS) on CAPTEM.

Methods: A retrospective cohort of PNET cases seen at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center or from Perthera’s Real-World Evidence (RWE) Database (n=95) included 25 patients who were treated with first- or second-line CAPTEM and had tumor next-generation sequencing (NGS) performed. Relationships between commonly altered PNET genes and PFS on CAPTEM were analyzed using Perthera’s RWE analytics tools. Differences in PFS outcomes by MEN1mut/DAXXwt status and potential confounders (e.g., line of therapy) were analyzed using univariate and multivariate Cox regression.

Results: We analyzed 25 PNET patients, 4 (16%) of whom had documented functional tumors. We identified MEN1 mutations as positively associated with CAPTEM response, but this effect was less pronounced for the subset with co-occurring DAXX mutations, which are commonly found alongside MEN1 alterations. With and without accounting for line of therapy, we found that PFS on CAPTEM was significantly longer in MEN1-mutated, DAXX-wildtype tumors compared to other mutation profiles (P< 0.01, see Table 1). ATRX and PTEN alterations were also enriched in the MEN1-mutated/DAXX-wildtype subset; however, other PI3K/AKT/mTOR alterations were common across all MEN1-mutated cases.

PFS Strata (n=25)Univariate Cox Significance (p)Hazard Ratio (HR) [95% Conf. Interval]Multivariate Cox Significance (p)Hazard Ratio (HR) [95% Conf. Interval]
MEN1mut/DAXXwt vs Other NGS ProfilesP=0.0094HR=0.16 [0.04-0.64]P=0.0097HR=0.16 [0.04-0.64]
1st Line CAPTEM vs 2nd Line CAPTEMP=0.68HR=0.8 [0.27-2.34]P=0.86HR=0.91 [0.32-2.58]

Conclusions: We describe a novel, exploratory genomic signature (MEN1-mut/DAXX-wt) that correlates with relative PNET response to CAPTEM. Prospective validation of these associations is warranted while taking into account other therapies, histopathologic factors, and other genomic correlates.

Abstract ID 21454

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