Overall survival and clinical characteristics of pancreatic cancer in BRCA mutation carriers.
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Abstract
Background
The BRCA1/2 proteins are involved in regulation of cellular proliferation by DNA damage repair via homologous recombination. Therefore, BRCA1/2 mutation carriers with pancreatic cancer may have distinct biologic outcomes.Methods
Patients with BRCA1/2-associated pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) diagnosed between January 1994 and December 2012 were identified from databases at three participating institutions. Clinical data were collected. Disease-free survival and overall survival (OS) were analysed.Results
Overall, 71 patients with PDAC and BRCA1 (n=21), BRCA2 (n=49) or both (n=1) mutations were identified. Mean age at diagnosis was 60.3 years (range 33-83), 81.7% (n=58) had any family history of malignancy; 30% (n=21) underwent primary resection. Out of 71 participants, 12 received experimental therapy; one patient had missing data, these 13 cases were excluded from OS analysis. Median OS for 58 patients was 14 months (95% CI 10-23 months). Median OS for patients with stage 1/2 disease has not been reached with 52% still alive at 60 months. Median OS for stage 3/4 was 12 months (95% CI 6-15). Superior OS was observed for patients with stage 3/4 treated with platinum vs those treated with non-platinum chemotherapies (22 vs 9 months; P=0.039).Conclusion
Superior OS was observed for advanced-disease BRCA-associated PDAC with platinum exposure.Free full text
Overall survival and clinical characteristics of pancreatic cancer in BRCA mutation carriers
Abstract
Background:
The BRCA1/2 proteins are involved in regulation of cellular proliferation by DNA damage repair via homologous recombination. Therefore, BRCA1/2 mutation carriers with pancreatic cancer may have distinct biologic outcomes.
Methods:
Patients with BRCA1/2-associated pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) diagnosed between January 1994 and December 2012 were identified from databases at three participating institutions. Clinical data were collected. Disease-free survival and overall survival (OS) were analysed.
Results:
Overall, 71 patients with PDAC and BRCA1 (n=21), BRCA2 (n=49) or both (n=1) mutations were identified. Mean age at diagnosis was 60.3 years (range 33–83), 81.7% (n=58) had any family history of malignancy; 30% (n=21) underwent primary resection. Out of 71 participants, 12 received experimental therapy; one patient had missing data, these 13 cases were excluded from OS analysis. Median OS for 58 patients was 14 months (95% CI 10–23 months). Median OS for patients with stage 1/2 disease has not been reached with 52% still alive at 60 months. Median OS for stage 3/4 was 12 months (95% CI 6–15). Superior OS was observed for patients with stage 3/4 treated with platinum vs those treated with non-platinum chemotherapies (22 vs 9 months; P=0.039).
Conclusion:
Superior OS was observed for advanced-disease BRCA-associated PDAC with platinum exposure.
Familial clustering is found in ~10% of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), often with an apparent autosomal dominant pattern of genetic transmission, suggestive of an inherited cancer syndrome (Shah and Kurtz, 2010). Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is notably over-represented in families with a clustering of breast and ovarian cancers (Easton et al, 1996; Lal et al, 2000; Hahn et al, 2003; Friedenson, 2005). In a subset of these cancer-prone families, germline mutations in either the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes are found, conferring a substantially higher lifetime risk for breast (50%–85% lifetime risk) and ovarian cancer (up to 64% lifetime risk; King et al, 2003). The association of mutations in these two genes with increased risk to other cancer types is also well established (Giusti et al, 2003; Friedenson, 2005). The Breast Cancer Linkage Consortium reported estimated relative risks for PDAC in BRCA2 mutation carriers of 3.5 (95% CI 1. 87–6.58; Easton, 1999). Recently, Narod et al reported a near doubling of risk for PDAC among BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carrier (Iqbal et al, 2012). Among Ashkenazi Jews, three predominant mutations in BRCA1 (185delAG, 5382InsC) and BRCA2 (6174delT) are detected in the majority of high-risk families, and also in 2.5% of the general Ashkenazi population (Oddoux et al, 1996; Roa et al, 1996). The prevalence of the 6174delT BRCA2 mutation among Ashkenazi Jewish PDAC patients ranges from 5.5% to 13% (Ozcelik et al, 1997; Figer et al, 2001; Ferrone et al, 2009). The prevalence of BRCA2 mutations in familial PDAC in non-Jewish, ethnically diverse populations has been reported to range from 6% to 17% (Murphy et al, 2002; Hahn et al, 2003; Couch et al, 2007).
The BRCA1 and BRCA2 proteins are involved in the regulation of cell cycle checkpoints in response to DNA damage, including the repair of DNA double-strand breaks via homologous recombination (HR; Venkitaraman, 2002). BRCA1/2-deficient cells that lack HR activity accumulate DNA double-strand breaks, resulting in genomic instability and an increased predisposition to malignant transformation and progression (Tutt and Ashworth, 2002). Somatic, biallelic inactivation of the BRCA1/2 genes confers sensitivity to inhibition of poly(ADP-ribose)-polymerase (PARP), an enzyme involved in base excision repair (Bryant et al, 2005) as the loss of both HR and PARP1 pathways leads to synthetic lethality during DNA replication. BRCA-defective cells are also more sensitive to platinums and anthracyclines, as these two agents are selectively lethal in HR-defective cells (Farmer et al, 2005; Tutt et al, 2005; van der Heijden et al, 2005). Thus, it seems plausible to hypothesise that BRCA1 and BRCA2 deficient tumours, particularly in BRCA1/BRCA2 germline mutation carriers, have a distinct biologic and therapeutic outcome. Indeed, several previous studies suggested that BRCA-associated ovarian cancer patients have a more favourable clinical course than non-carriers, an observation attributable to an improved response to platinum-based chemotherapy (Cass et al, 2003; Chetrit et al, 2008; Tan et al, 2008; Vencken et al, 2011). However, a differential therapeutic response to chemotherapy in BRCA mutation carriers was not replicated in all studies (Robson et al, 2004; Rennert et al, 2007; Lee et al, 2011).
The prognostic and predictive marker of germline BRCA-associated PDAC are unknown. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations on the natural history and therapeutic outcome, with the use of platinum agents, in patients with PDAC.
Materials and methods
Patient identification and data collection
Patients with BRCA1/2-associated PDAC diagnosed between January 1994 and December 2012 were identified from clinical databases at three participating institutions: Rambam Medical Institute, Haifa; Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario; and Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan. Data on patient demographics, clinical history, past surgical procedures specifically pertaining to PDAC, systemic chemotherapy and response to treatment were abstracted from patient records. Clinical stage was classified according to the seventh edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer staging criteria (Edge and Compton, 2010). The institutional review board (IRB) of each participating institute approved this study.
DNA extraction
Genomic DNA was prepared from anticoagulated venous blood, using PUREGene DNA extraction kit (Gentra Systems Inc., Minneapolis, MN, USA) following the manufacturer's recommended protocol or by organic solvent isolation.
Analysis of the founder Jewish mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2
At the Rambam and Chaim Sheba Medical Centers, mutational analyses for the three predominantly Jewish mutations (185delAG, 5382InsC in BRCA1 and 6174delT in BRCA2) were carried out by restriction enzyme digest of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) products, and analysis of the digested PCR products on agarose gels was carried out, as described previously (Ozcelik et al, 1997; Rohlfs et al, 1997). For each of these three mutations, a known mutation carrier was used as a positive control in each experiment.
At the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto, mutational analysis of exons and flanking regions of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 loci was carried out at the Advanced Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory at Mount Sinai Hospital. Polymerase chain reaction was carried out in 12
μl reaction volumes. Polymerase chain reaction primers and conditions are available upon request.
Following PCR clean-up, BigDyeTerminator Cycle Sequencing Version 3.1 (Applied Biosystems, Toronto, ON, Canada) was used for sequencing reactions using 2μl of the cleaned up PCR products and using the recommended protocol for cycle sequencing, and analysed on an ABI 3730XL Genetic Analyzer (Applied Biosystems, Toronto, ON, Canada). Sequencing files were processed using SequenceAnalysis software (Applied Biosystems, Toronto, ON, Canada) and assembled and analysed using Mutation Surveyor (version 4.0.7, SoftGenetics, LLC, State College, PA, USA). The GenBank reference sequences used for this study were NM_007294.3 for BRCA1 and NM_000059.3 for BRCA2.
Overall survival and disease-free survival
Overall survival (OS) was defined as the time from the date of diagnosis to the date of death from any cause. If a patient is not known to have died, the OS was censored until the date of last follow-up. The OS results for patients exposed to platinum-based treatments during the course of their disease were compared with that of non-platinum chemotherapy-treated carriers. Disease-free survival (DFS) was defined as the time from the date of diagnosis to the date of recurrence in stage 1 and 2 patients. If a patient did not have an event, DFS was censored at the date of last follow-up.
Statistical analysis
Distributions for categorical variables were compared and analysed by the Fisher–Irwin exact test. The Kaplan–Meier (KM) model was used to calculate OS, and DFS as a function of time. The differences between the KM curves were tested for significance with the use of the log-rank test. All statistical tests were analysed to a significance level of 0.05 using the STATA statistical package (StataCorp LP, College Station, TX, USA).
Results
Patient and tumour characteristics
Overall, 71 patients with BRCA1/2-associated PDAC diagnosed between January 1994 and December 2012 were identified. Mean age at diagnosis was 60.3 years (range 33–83 years), 58% (n=41) were male and 73.2% (n=52) were Jewish (Table 1). Stage 1 disease was identified in a single patient (1.4%), whereas stage 2, 3 and 4 disease were observed in 19 (27%), 16 (23%) and 34 (48%) of the patients, respectively (one patient had missing data). A primary resection was performed in 30% (n=21) of patients. One patient had metastatic disease at resection and therefore was included in survival data for advanced disease. The clinical characteristics of the subgroup of the 58 patients (excluding the patients treated with PARP inhibitors) is similar to the whole cohort (Table 1).
Table 1
| Demographic | All patients (%) | Patients with OS data (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Number of patients | 71 | 58 |
| Gender | ||
| Male | 41 (57.8) | 33 (56.9) |
| Female | 30 (42.2) | 25 (43.1) |
| Age (at diagnosis) | ||
| Mean±s.d. (years) | 60.3±10.0 | 61.6±9.9 |
| Range (years) | 33–83 | 33–82 |
| Jewish | ||
| Yes | 52 (73.2) | 41 (70.7) |
| No | 18 (25.4) | 17 (29.3) |
| Missing | 1 (1.4) | |
| Jewish ethnicity | 52 | |
 Ashkenazi | 47 (90.4) | 39 (95.2) |
| Non-Ashkenazi | 2 (3.9) | |
| Mixed | 2 (3.9) | 1 (2.4) |
| Missing | 1 (1.8) | 1 (2.4) |
| Not Jewish | 18 | |
| Caucasian | 13 (72.2) | 12 (70.6) |
| Other | 5 (27.8) | 5 (29.4) |
Abbreviation: OS=overall survival.
Of all study participants, 69% (n=49) had a BRCA2 mutation, 30% (n=21) a BRCA1 mutation and 1% (n=1) had both a BRCA1 and a BRCA2 mutation. Specific mutations are listed in Table 2. In total, 22 patients in the stage 3/4 group received platinum-based treatment. The majority of our platinum-treated patients received gemcitabine and cisplatin, one patient received gemcitabine and oxaliplatin and three patients received FOLFIRINOX (oxaliplatin, irinotecan, folinic acid and fluorouracil).
Table 2
| Specific mutation | Number of patients | BRCA1/2 |
|---|---|---|
| 185delAG | 14 | BRCA1 |
| 5382insC | 4 | BRCA1 |
| 2318delG | 1 | BRCA1 |
| 4237C>T | 1 | BRCA1 |
| c.1-?80+?dup | 1 | BRCA1 |
| 6174delT | 31 | BRCA2 |
| 4075delGT | 1 | BRCA2 |
| c3645-3646delinsTAAAAAG p.Phe1216LysfsX14 | 1 | BRCA2 |
| 2041insA | 1 | BRCA2 |
| 5996dupT | 1 | BRCA2 |
| 6589delAG | 1 | BRCA2 |
| c.8332-?-8487+?del, exon 19 deleted | 1 | BRCA2 |
| 3393delC | 1 | BRCA2 |
| 8765delAG | 1 | BRCA2 |
| 3967delA | 1 | BRCA2 |
| IVS7+2T>G | 1 | BRCA2 |
| 4003G>T | 1 | BRCA2 |
| 7908T>A | 1 | BRCA2 |
| 9118-1G>C | 1 | BRCA2 |
| 2041delA | 1 | BRCA2 |
| 262_263delCT | 1 | BRCA2 |
| 2957_2958insG | 1 | BRCA2 |
| 5722_5723delCT | 1 | BRCA2 |
| 1736T>G | 1 | BRCA2 |
| c.2681_2682delAA, p.K894TfsX8/c.9382C>T, p.R3128X | 1 | BRCA1+2 |
Family history of cancer
Most of the study participants (58/71, 82%) had a family history of cancer, of which 91% (53/58) had an affected first-degree relative, and 33% (19/58) had a family history of a first or second-degree relative with PDAC. The family history for one patient was unknown. Thirty-seven percent of patients in our cohort (26/70) also had a personal history of a malignancy including breast (n=16), prostate (n=3), renal cell carcinoma (n=2), malignant melanoma (n=1), ovarian (n=1), endometrial (n=1), thyroid (n=1), bladder (n=1) and colon cancer (n=1). One patient had both breast and endometrial cancer (Table 3).
Table 3
| Family history of cancer | Patients (%) |
|---|---|
| Yes | 58 (81.7) |
| No | 12 (16.9) |
| Missing | 1 (1.4) |
| Family history of PDAC | |
| Number of patients | 58 |
| Yes | 19 (32.7) |
| No | 35 (60.3) |
| Missing | 4 (7.0) |
| First-degree relative with cancer | |
| Number of patients | 58 |
| Yes | 53 (91.4) |
| No | 4 (6.9) |
| Missing | 1 (1.7) |
Abbreviation: PDAC=pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
Disease-free survival and overall survival
In our cohort, 28.2% of patients (n=20) had early-stage disease (stage 1 or 2) and underwent curative intent resection. The median DFS for this group was 13 months (95% CI 6–19 months). The probabilities that a patient remained disease free at 1 and 5 years were 0.54 (95% CI 0.29–0.74) and 0.27 (95% CI 0.09–0.5), respectively.
The median OS (mOS) of patients with a BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations was 15 months (range 4–27 months) and 13 months (range 9–23 months), respectively. This difference was not significant (P=0.77; Figure 1B).
(A) Probability of overall survival of all patients. (B) Probability of overall survival by BRCA mutations.
Out of 71 participants, 12 received experimental therapy (PARP inhibitors) and 1 patient had missing data; these 13 cases were excluded from OS analysis. Patients treated with PARP inhibitors were excluded from OS analysis since these data that have been acquired in the course of a clinical trial have not yet been published. Median OS for the remaining 58 eligible patients was 14 months (95% CI 10–23 months; Figure 1A). No significant difference in median OS was observed in Jewish patients 13 months (95% CI 5–22 months) in comparison to non-Jewish patients 15 months (95% CI 8–60 months). Among 15 patients with early disease (stage 1/2), the probability that a patient with early-stage disease remained alive at 5 years was 0.52 (CI 0.18–0.78; Figure 2A), and the probability that patients with advanced disease (n=43) remained alive at 5 years was 0.11 with (C.I 0.02–0.28). The mOS in combined stage 3 and 4 disease was 12 months (range 6–15 months; Figure 2B).
(A) Probability of overall survival by stage 1 or 2 (n=15). (B) Probability of overall survival by stage 3 or 4 (n=43). (C) Probability of overall survival by platinum treatment at stages 3 and 4.
Median OS for stage 3 patients (n=8) treated with platinum agents was over 48 months, compared to 10 months for those exposed to only non-platinum agents (n=7, P=0.205; Table 4). In patients with stage 4 disease, mOS of platinum-treated patients (n=14) was 15 months compared with 7 months for those treated with only non-platinum-treated patient (n=14, P=0.276). When combining data for stages 3 and 4, the mOS was 22 months for the platinum exposed (n=22) compared with 9 months for the non-platinum (n=21) treatment groups (P<0.039; Figure 2C). Overall survival probabilities are shown in Table 4.
Table 4
| Stage | Number of patients | Treatment | mOS (months) | Probability of OS at 12, 14–48 and 36 months) | P-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 15 | P—8 | >48 | 0.69 (0.21–0.91) | 0.69 (0.21–0.91) | — | 0.2059 |
| NP—7 | 10 (4–14) | 0.21 (0.01–0.6) | 0 | — | |||
| 4 | 28 | P—14 | 15 (5–22) | 0.7 (0.38–0.87) | 0.15 (0.01–0.49) | — | 0.276 |
| NP—14 | 7 (3–15) | 0.3 (0.08–0.56) | 0.2 (0.03–0.46) | — | |||
| 3 and 4 | 43 | P—22 | 22 (6–27) | 0.7 (0.44–0.85) | — | 0.16 (0.01–0.46) | 0.0389 |
| NP—21 | 9 (4–12) | 0.26 (0.08–0.48) | — | 0.07 (0.01–0.26) | |||
Abbreviations: mOS=median overall survival; NP=no platinum; OS=overall survival; P=platinum. Statistically significant value is in bold.
Discussion
Our data suggest that BRCA mutation status is an important clinical factor in PDAC and that BRCA mutation status may be an important prognostic and predictive biomarker for PDAC.
The median age of diagnosis was a decade younger than an unselected population reported from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (Howlader et al, 2012). The effect of germline BRCA1/2 mutations on clinical course and therapeutic outcome compared to sporadic, BRCA1/2 wild type, subjects has previously been reported in a variety of cancer types. The prognostic significance of BRCA1 or BRCA2-associated PDAC is currently unknown. In ovarian cancer, a significantly longer OS has been reported for BRCA mutation carriers compared with non-carriers (53.7 months vs 37.9 months, P=0.002), with a more pronounced effect for patients with advanced stage, higher grade disease (Chetrit et al, 2008). In a study of 1545 consecutive Ashkenazi Jewish breast cancer patients, of whom 10% were BRCA carriers, no survival difference was noted between carriers and non-carriers (Rennert et al, 2007). In addition, similar outcomes were identified for BRCA mutation breast cancer carriers and sporadic cases in a large multivariate analysis (Goodwin et al, 2012). In our study, we observed a slightly more favourable outcome in the setting of being a BRCA1/2 mutation carrier in PDAC patients. Historical controls report an mOS of 4.4 months (Bilimoria et al, 2007) yet in the present study, median all-stage OS of 58 PARP inhibitor naive patients was 14 months. Therefore our preliminary data suggest that BRCA1 or BRCA2-associated PDAC has more favourable outcome than non-BRCA-associated PDAC.
The main finding in our study is an improvement in OS in stage 3 and 4 BRCA1 or BRCA2-associated PDAC patients who were treated with platinum-based agents compared with those who were not treated with these agents. It is worth noting that previous clinical trials have not shown an OS benefit with the combination of platinum agents and gemcitabine in advanced pancreatic cancer(Heinemann et al, 2006; Poplin et al, 2009). Our results suggested a more favourable outcome with platinum treatment for each individual stage; however, these differences were not statistically significant.
The effect of BRCA mutations and response to DNA crosslinking agents in PDAC was evaluated by Lowery et al (2011), who reported that 5/6 BRCA-associated PDAC patients who received a platinum agent as first-line metastatic therapy demonstrated a partial or complete radiographic response. This favourable response of BRCA-associated PDAC to DNA crosslinking agents is also supported by a case report by Sonnenblick (2011). Similarly, a survival advantage with platinum-containing regimens was reported for patients with PDAC and a family history of any malignancy, in whom the status of BRCA mutation carrier status was not specified (Oliver et al, 2010).
These reports, together with our findings, highlight the potential biological importance of treating tumours with deficient HR pathway with DNA crosslinking agents. Future studies should consider the use of cisplatin, in combination with other agents that selectively kill error-prone, HR-defective cells such as cyclophosphamide, temozalomide and PARP inhibitors (Evers et al, 2010). Importantly, these studies should also address differential individual patient sensitivity and de novo or acquired resistance to cisplatin using assays that reflect relative genetic instability (low or high copy number alteration, expression of other DNA repair genes, RAD51 nuclear foci as surrogate markers for HR and BRCA1/2-genetic reversion; Bouwman et al, 2010; Dent and Bristow, 2011; Vollebergh et al, 2012).
The present study is the largest cohort to date that has been reported with BRCA1/2-associated PDAC patients. As PARP inhibitors are being introduced to PDAC patients harbouring BRCA mutations, in the context of clinical trials, the assembly and analysis of similar data will be difficult; therefore, our observations may remain unique and difficult to replicate. The majority of our patients in the platinum-based group received gemcitabine and cisplatin, therefore we cannot conclude from our data whether the doublet combination with platinum is sufficient for BRCA-associated PDAC or whether the new FOLFIRINOX combination is superior. Previously reported data, combined with data reported herein on the superior therapeutic response to platinum-based chemotherapy in BRCA-associated PDAC, needs to be interpreted with caution for several reasons: the non-randomised, retrospective nature of these studies, the limited sample sizes, the comparison to historic controls and the variation in chemotherapy regimens both within and between sites including the use of different platinum agents, dosing schedules, dosing frequency and improvement in chemotherapy drugs over the past decade. In addition, the majority of our patients were of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, and this limits the general applicability of our findings to ethnically diverse PDAC patients with a different spectrum of BRCA1/2 mutations. Nonetheless, our experiences in non-Israeli cancer centres, suggest similar positive responses to platinum-based therapies for other ethnic groups with BRCA-associated PDAC.
In conclusion, the current study suggests that BRCA mutation status may be a prognostic and predictive biomarker for PDAC and that BRCA-associated PDAC patients may benefit from the addition of platinum agents to standard therapy. Our data have not definitely shown this in all stages and it would be beneficial to further investigate early stage vs late stage in a case–control study. A randomised phase II clinical trial evaluating the addition of PARP inhibition to platinum-based therapy in a genetically selected population of BRCA1, BRCA2 or PALB2 mutation carriers with PDAC is currently underway to further address this clinical issue (NCT01585805).
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Teresa Selander and the Biospecimen Repository at Mount Sinai Hospital, and Dr Jordan Lerner-Ellis, Rishi Jairath and members of the Advanced Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory at Mount Sinai Hospital for assistance with BRCA mutation sequencing. We would also like to thank Adva Goldshtain at Clinical Trial Unit at Sheba Medical Center for assistance with clinical data retrieval and Yael Laitman from the Oncogenetics unit for DNA processing, storing and genotyping.
Footnotes
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