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Pathology UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN Diagnostische Pathologie van de long in vogelvlucht Wim Timens Dept. Pathology and Medical Biology, University Medical Center Groningen “Week van de Pathologie" 27 – 30 maart 2017, Ede

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  • Pathology UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN

    Diagnostische Pathologie van de long in vogelvlucht

    Wim TimensDept. Pathology and Medical Biology, University Medical Center Groningen

    “Week van de Pathologie" 27 – 30 maart 2017, Ede

  • (potentiële) belangenverstrengeling Zie hieronder

    Voor bijeenkomst mogelijk relevante relaties met

    bedrijvenBedrijfsnamen

    • Adviesraad (niet persoonlijk, vergoeding naar

    afdeling)

    • Lezing / cursus (niet persoonlijk, vergoeding naar

    afdeling)

    • Merck Sharp & Dohme, Pfizer,

    Roche/Ventana.

    • Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers

    Squibb, Glaxo Smith Kline, Biotest, Chiesi,

    Lilly Oncology, Merck Sharp & Dohme,

    Novartis, Pfizer, Roche/Ventana

    Disclosure belangen spreker

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    Pathologie van de long

    • Interstitiële longziekten

    • Longkanker

    • Infecties

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    Interstitiële longziektenHistopathologische reactiepatronen bij diffuse alveolair-interstitiële longafwijkingen:

    “The alphabet soup”

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    Alveolair-interstitiele longafwijkingen

    • diffusieweg voor gaswisseling langer

    • long stijver, minder compliant

    • ventilatie-perfusie wanverhoudingen

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    Transbronchiaal biopt:

    Beperkte diagnostische mogelijkheden:

    • Longtransplantatie

    • Sarcoidose e.a. granulomateuze afwijkingen

    • Infecties

    • Pulmonale Langerhanscel histiocytose

    • Eosinofiele pneumonie

    • Lymfangioleiomyomatose

    • (sommige) maligniteiten

    • Churg-Strauss syndroom/vasculitis

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    Open long / VATS biopsie:

    Welke?…antwoorden mag je verwachten:

    • Identificatie van potentieel behandelbare afwijkingen:

    – Infectie

    – Alveolaire proteinose

    – Extrinsieke allergische alveolitis (hypersensitiviteits pneumonitis)

    • Identificatie van eerste manifestatie van systeemziekte:

    – Immuundeficientie

    – Auto-immuunziekte

    • Classificatie van (idiopathische) interstitiele pneumonieën

    • Vaatpathologie van de long (pulmonale hypertensie, pulmonale veneuze occlusie)

    • Belangrijke prognostische informatie

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    Interpretatie longbiopten

    • Belangrijkste plaats van afwijkingen:

    – luchtruimte

    – interstitieel

    – gemengd

    • Uitbreiding van het proces:

    – diffuus

    – wisselend in ernst

    • indien wisselend bepaling van patroon.

    – willekeurig

    – specifiek:

    • bronchiolair

    • lymfbanen volgend

    • arterieel

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    Cryptogene organiserende pneumonie

    (Bronchiolitis obliterans organiserende pneumonie)

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    Interstitiële pneumonie

    • Bekende oorzaken:

    – Infectieus of postinfectieus

    – Omgevingsfactoren (inhalants)

    – Geneesmiddelen

    • Idiopathisch

    – Neoplastisch

    – Lymfoproliferatief

    – Metabool

    Acute interstitiele pneumonie (AIP)

    Usual interstitiele pneumonie (UIP)

    Desquamatieve interstitiele pneumonie (DIP) / Respiratoire bronchiolitis interstitiele pneumonie

    (RBILD)

    Niet-specifieke interstitiele pneumonie (NSIP)

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    Overige vormen idiopathische interstitiele

    pneumonie

    (doch vaak etiologie wel bekend)

    • Reuscel interstitiele pneumonie

    (meestal pneumoconiose, geassoc. met zware metalen)

    • Granulomateuze interstitiele pneumonie.

    • Lymfoide interstitiele pneumonie

    (meestal geassoc. met immuundeficienties)

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    Desquamatieve interstitiële

    pneumonieDesquamatieve interstitiele pneumonie (DIP)

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    Desquamatieve

    interstitiële pneumonieDesquamatieve

    interstitiele

    pneumonie (DIP)

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    Niet-specifieke interstitiële pneumonieNiet-specifieke interstitiële pneumonie (NSIP)

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    Niet-specifieke

    interstitiële

    pneumonie

    Niet-specifieke

    interstitiële

    pneumonie

    (NSIP)

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    Niet-specifieke interstitiële

    pneumonie,

    Fibroserende vorm

    F-NSIP

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    Waar moet je aan denken bij NSIP-patroon?

    • Collageen ziekten

    • Geneesmiddelen reacties

    • Hypersensitiviteitspneumonie (extrinsieke allergische alveolitis)

    • Pneumoconiose

    • Chronisch pulmonale veneuze hypertensie (mitraalstenose)

    • Allogene beenmergtransplantatie

    • Idiopathisch

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    Acute interstitiële

    pneumonie

    Diffuse alveolaire schade (“DAD”)Acute interstitiële pneumonie (AIP)

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    Acute interstitiële

    pneumonie

    diffuse fibroblasten

    proliferatie en sporadische

    lymfocyten

    Diffuse alveolaire

    schade (“DAD”)Acute interstitiële

    pneumonie (AIP)

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    Oorzaken van diffuse alveolaire schade

    • inhalatie van toxische gassen of dampen

    • inhalatie van anorganische stoffen (pneumoconiosen)

    • sommige cytostatica (busulfan, bleomycine)

    • bestraling van de long (bestralingspneumonitis)

    • sepsis, shock, diffuse intravasale stolling

    • beademing met hoge concentraties O2

    • aspiratie van de maaginhoud

    • narcotica-abusus (hereoïne, methadon)

    • ernstige infecties, vooral bij immuundeficiënties

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    Stadium heterogeniteit in UIPUsual interstitial pneumonie (UIP)

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    Usual interstitial pneumonia: fibroblast focus

    Usual interstitial pneumonie (UIP):

    “Fibroblast focus”

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    Interstitiële longziektenMultidisciplinaire aanpak!

    Histopathologische diagnose moet tesamen met radiologie, klinische informatie en beloop

    worden overwogen

    • Histopathologisch onderzoek:

    • in veel gevallen gouden standaard; kan belangrijke bijdrage leveren in aanvulling op klinische gegevens

    en beeldvormende diagnostiek, relevant voor verdere behandeling en therapie.

    • Informatie m.b.t. klinisch beloop en radiologische bevindingen essentieel voor optimale diagnose

    • Belang van beeldvormende diagnostiek:

    • naast diagnostische bijdrage ook als uitgangspunt voor:

    • biopsie van anatomische locatie, representatief voor de afwijking

    • locatie alwaar actieve of vroege fase van het ziekteproces

    • Tijdstip biopsie is belangrijk:

    • indien indicatie dan vroeg in het ziekteproces

    • geïndividualiseerde multidisciplinaire besluitvorming

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    Longkanker

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    What was the past:

    • Clinical Relevance:

    – SCLC vs NSCLC

    – Neuroendocrine tumors

    • NSCLC:

    – Adenocarcinoma

    – Squamous cell carcinoma

    – Large cell carcinoma• Large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma

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    How defined then:

    WHO: definition: morphology by histochemistry (only)

    • Squamous cell carcinoma:

    – Intercellular bridges

    – keratinization

    • Adenocarcinoma:

    – Glandular morphology

    – Mucus production (PAS, Alcian Blue)

    • Large cell carcinoma: all NSCLC that do not have above criteria

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    Reactive atypia courtesy Dr. Doug Flieder, Cornell University, New York

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    Reactive atypia courtesy Dr. Doug Flieder, Cornell University, New York

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    Atypical Adenomatous hyperplasia

    courtesy Dr. Doug Flieder, Cornell University, New York

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    Atypical Adenomatous hyperplasia

    courtesy Dr. Doug Flieder, Cornell University, New York

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    Bronchiolization of alveolar septa

    courtesy Dr. Doug Flieder, Cornell University, New York

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    Bronchiolization of alveolar septa

    courtesy Dr. Doug Flieder, Cornell University, New York

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    Adenocarcinoma in situ

    courtesy Dr. Doug Flieder, Cornell University, New York

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    Adenocarcinoma in situ

    courtesy Dr. Doug Flieder, Cornell University, New York

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    Papillary adenocarcinoma

    courtesy Dr. Doug Flieder, Cornell University, New York

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    Papillary adenocarcinoma

    courtesy Dr. Doug Flieder, Cornell University, New York

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    Targeted therapy: new demands

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    Targeted therapy: new demands

    Phenotyping more relevant, because restriction to phenotype:

    • Side effects of new drugs

    • Driver mutations with therapeutic effects

    • Mutations with adverse effects

    • But also: easy and accurate identification of patients without

    likelihood of relevant mutations

    • Expensive diagnostics and therapy:

    the right drug in the right patient

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    How to identify our targetable patient?

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    Relevance of lung cancer histotyping

    • p53 mutations: frequent in all lung carcinomas

    • HER2/neu expression infrequent in AC; rare in SCC

    • K-RAS mutations: found in AC, rare in SCC

    • EGFR-(tyrosine kinase) inhibitors: Erlotinib and Gefinitib:

    do not work in SCC: > 80% SCC are EGFR positive (but in general no relevant EGFR-TK driver

    mutations)

    • Pemetrexed (anti-folate agent): little effect in SCC

    • VEGF-inhibitors (Bevacuzimab): serious side effects in SCC (hemorrhage)

    • EML4-ALK translocations (Crizoitinib): associated with signet ring adenocarcinoma

    • ……………….

    • ……………….

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    Diagnostic pathology in lung cancer:What are the challenges?

    • Include appropriate molecular pathology

    • Include other companion diagnostics (Immunotherapy)

    • Fast

    • Accurate

    • What is possible with cytology (EUS/EBUS) and small biopsies

    • Limited costs

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    Vraag 1: kan een diagnose grootcelligcarcinoom van de long worden gesteld

    op cytologie

    1. Nee, nooit

    2. Ja, indien gesteund door immunocytologie

    3. Ja, indien gesteund door moleculaire diagnostiek

    4. Nee, daarvoor heb je een biopt nodig

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    What was/is to improve:

    • Large cell carcinoma (NSCLC) is a wastebag (and therefore mixed bag!) category:

    should be reduced

    • “Classic” (so mostly: well-differentiated) squamous cell carcinoma and

    adenocarcinoma are not so frequent:

    – On morphology often over-interpretation in poorly to moderately differentiated SCC and

    AC: too often wrong

    Much more relevant role for immunohistochemistry

    Criteria phenotyping should be re(de)fined

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    J Thor Oncology

    2011: 244-285 (41

    pages!)

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    Rossi et al. Int. J Surg Path 2009

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    p63p63

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    p63p63

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    p63

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    TTF1

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    Tumour heterogeneityis it a problem?

    • Variabele differentiation within one type NSCLC

    • Mixed tumours

    • Mosaic of mutations: do they exist?

    • Small samples (biopsies / cytology):

    – Selection bias / representativity

    – Risk false negatives

    – Risk selective detection in case of mosaic

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    Present day diagnostic pathology:

    • Phenotyping is not only giving main classifying

    diagnosis, but:

    • Describe all components and differentiation

    • Selecting for MolDiag, not only “percentage” but also

    right part of the tumor!

  • Extraction of tumour cells

    (if necessary, separate tumour cells from non-tumour cells)

    Preservation = formalin fixation and

    embedding using paraffin

    How do we test for a mutation?

    Sectioning = confirmation of tumour content

    and tissue quality

    DNA extraction and purification

    Mutation analysis (e.g. sequencing)

    Tumour sample collection = histological specimen

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    Vraag 2: welk antwoord is beste m.b.t moleculaire diagnostiek

    1. Levert beter resultaat bij coloncarcinoom dan bij longcarcinoom, omdat

    daar meestal resectiemateriaal ter beschikking is

    2. Kan op cytologie als er maar genoeg celmateriaal ter beschikking is

    3. NGS op weefsel zal op termijn vervangen kunnen worden door “liquid

    biopsy”

    4. Moleculaire pathologie geeft meer waarschijnlijkheid op een zinvolle

    diagnose dan huidige whole genome sequencing

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    Present day diagnostic pathology:

    (and in fact also for clinician….)

    Realize (and report?) which limitations are relevant for which technique:

    • Mutation analysis: percentage of nucleated cells (not volume% !!) in a certain area of

    the tissue or cell block: morphology doesn’t help anymore to recognize the tumor

    DNA between the normal DNA

    • ISH: number of recognizable tumor cells is relevant: cut-off points for counting are

    validated on minimum number of “countable” tumor cells: morphology (and IHC?)

    help if many normal (often inflammatory) cells present

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    Metastases:

    • Intrinsic to tumor heterogeneity

    • In general prognosis determined by metastatic disease:

    • Metastases can acquire organ-specific mutations

    Should metastases more often be biopsied (and re-phenotyped!) for molecular diagnosis?

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    Sequist et al. : Genotypic and Histological

    Evolution of Lung Cancers Acquiring

    Resistance to EGFR Inhibitors

    Sci Transl Med 2011: 3 (75): 75ra26

    Is this really evolution or could

    extended sampling have

    shown both components early

    on…?

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    Other targets: Immunotherapy…

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    Immune checkpoint blockade

    Drake, C. G. et al. (2013) Nat. Rev. Clin. Oncol.

  • Mechanisms by Which Cancers Evade Immune Destruction

    Excluded infiltrate

    CD8

    Immunologic ignorance

    CD8

    …unable to act

    PD-L1

    T cells present but..

    CD8

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  • Early Data Suggest that Anti-PDL1/PD1 is Active Across a

    Wide Range of Tumor Types

    Bladder cancerColorectal cancer

    Renal cancer

    Melanoma

    Liver cancer

    Lung cancer

    Gastric

    Breast cancer

    Glioblastoma

    Pancreatic

    Head & neck cancer

    Ovarian

    Hodgkin lymphoma

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  • Non-sq.=non-squamous; sq.=squamous

    1. Weber et al. Lancet 2015; 2. Robert et al. Lancet 2015; 3. Larkin et al. N Engl J Med 2015; 4. Borghaei et al. N Engl J Med 2015

    5. Brahmer et al. N Engl J Med 2015; 6. Antonia et al. ASCO 2015; 7. Motzer et al. J Clin Oncol 2015; 8. Le et al. ASCO GI 2016

    9. Kefford et al. ASCO 2014; 10. Garon et al. N Engl J Med 2015; 11. Plimack et al. ASCO 2015; 12. Vansteenkiste et al. ECC 2015

    13. Rosenberg et al. Lancet 2016; 14. McDermott et al. J Clin Oncol 2015; 15. Rizvi et al. ASCO 2015; 16. Segal et al. ASCO 2015

    17. Gulley et al. ASCO 2015; 18. Apolo et al. ASCO GU 2016; 19. Dirix et al. SABCS 2015; 20. Chung et al. ASCO GI 2016

    Response Rate by PD-L1 Status

    0

    20

    40

    60

    80ITT

    PD-L1+

    PD-L1-

    Nivolumab Pembrolizumab Durvalumab AvelumabAtezolizumab

    OR

    R (

    %)

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  • Hegde, et al. Clin Cancer Res 2016

    The Tumor Immunity Continuum

    Pre-existing immunity Excluded infiltrate Immunologically ignorant

    Inflamed Non-inflamed

    Convert to inflamed phenotype with combinations

    CD8 T cells/IFNPD-L1

    TILs

    Mutational Load

    Reactive stroma

    Angiogenesis

    Respond favorably to

    checkpoint inhibition

    MDSCs

    Proliferating

    Tumors/ Low

    MHC Class I

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  • Immune cells

    (ICs)

    Tumor cells

    (TCs)

    Tumor and immune cells

    (TCs and ICs)

    PD-L1 Staining Can Be Observed In Tumor Cells, Immune Cells

    or Both

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    Vraag 3: Bij diagnostiek t.b.v. immunotherapie:

    1. Moet altijd een PD-L1 kleuring worden verricht

    2. Zijn alle beschikbare assays geschikt om dit te doen

    3. Moet dit op histologie worden verricht

    4. Kan het beste de “mutational load” worden bepaald

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    Agent Nivolumab Pembrolizumab Durvalumab Atezolizumab

    Antibody Dako 28-8 VentanaSP263

    Dako 22C3 VentanaSP263

    VentanaSP142

    Cut-off(s)Tested (NSCLC)

    1%, 5% or 10% (TC)

    ≥ 25% TC

    TC ≥ 50% (and 1% any stroma)

    ≥ 25% TC TC 1%, 5%, 50%IC 1%, 5%, 10%

    Analytically validated assays used in clinical studies

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    PD-L1 IHC variation

    Different PD-L1 clones on consecutive sectionsof one tumor

    Scheel et al. Modern Pathol 2016

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    Variable expression of PD-L1 within one tumor / within onepatient

    Cree et al, Histopathology 2016

  • Pardoll. Nat Rev Cancer 2012

    Regulation of T Cell Activation:

    Balancing Activating and Inhibitory Signals

    Inhibitory interactions

    APC/tumor APC/tumor

    CTLA-4

    PD-1

    PD-L1

    B7.1

    BTLA

    LAG-3

    HVEM

    MHC

    B7.1

    PD-L2

    B7.2

    Activating interactions

    CD137

    CD28

    OX40

    GITR

    CD27

    CD70

    CD137L

    GITRL

    OX40L

    B7.1

    TCR

    B7.2

    MHC

    T cell

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  • Chen & Mellman, Immunity 2013

  • Topalian et al. Nature Rev Cancer 2016

    Multifactorial biomarkers

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    Kerr et a; Histopathology 1998, Johnson et al. Lung Cancer 2000

    Kerr, USCAP 2015

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    Eur Respir J 2015; 46: 1762–

    1772

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    Conclusions:

    • PD-L1 testing evaluation is encouraging with respect to better and simpler, reliable routine application in pathology

    • Since PD-L1 alone is not the optimal biomarker for PD-1 therapies, considerable effort is and should be spent in examining (combination with) others such as tumor-infiltrating immune cells, mutational load, gene signatures

    • In the future, it is likely that it will be an optimal combination of biomarkers to be used to determine, with a sufficient degree of certainty, whether a particular patient will benefit from anti-PD-1/PD-L1 therapy and future immune checkpoint blocking drugs to come

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    Pitfalls of using PDL1 immunohistochemistry as a biomarker test for anti-PD1–PDL1 therapy

    • Focal programmed cell death 1 ligand 1 (PDL1) expression in some tumoursmay be missed in small biopsy specimens, such as needle biopsies

    • PDL1 expression among multiple tumour lesions from individual patients can vary over time and by anatomical site

    • PDL1 expression in tumour biopsies collected months or years earlier might not accurately reflect PDL1 status at the time of treatment initiation; therapies given after biopsy but before administration of programmed cell death protein 1 (PD1) pathway blockade (radiation therapy, chemotherapy or kinase inhibitors) may alter PDL1 expression

    • PDL1 epitopes detected by some antibodies are potentially unstable with prolonged specimen fixation or inadequate tissue handling before fixation (see NCI guidelines for tissue handling)

    • Antibodies used for PDL1 detection have different affinities and specificities

    • PDL1 protein expression can be membranous and/or cytoplasmic; however, only membranous PDL1 is functionally relevant, by contacting PD1+ T cells

    • PDL1 can be expressed by multiple cell types within the tumourmicroenvironment, which poses challenges for scoring and interpretation

    Topalian et al. Nature Rev Cancer 2016

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    Topalian et al. Nature Rev Cancer 2016

    Multifactorial biomarkers

  • Figure 4. Percentage of PD-L1 expression in adenocarcinomas and mutational status of significantly associated genes. The combination of TP53 mutation, KRAS mutation and

    STK11 wildtype is associated with the highest percentage of PD-L1 expression in adenocarcinoma tumor cells. Conversely, STK11 mutations in the absence of TP53 and

    KRAS mutations are associated with the lowest percentage.

    Scheel et al.

    Oncoimmunology 2016

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    Rizvi et al, Science 2015

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    • In two independent cohorts treated with pembroluzimab(n=14 vs 18), higher nonsynonymous mutation burden in tumors was associated with: – improved objective response,

    – durable clinical benefit, and

    – progression-free survival

    • Efficacy also correlated with:– molecular smoking signature,

    – higher neoantigen burden, and

    – Higher DNA repair pathway mutations;

    – -> each factor was also associated with mutation burden.

    Rizvi et al, Science 2015