1. Pan-tumor survey of ROS1 fusions detected by next-generation RNA and whole transcriptome sequencing
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Misako Nagasaka, Shannon S. Zhang, Yasmine Baca, Joanne Xiu, Jorge Nieva, Ari Vanderwalde, Jeffrey J. Swensen, David Spetzler, Wolfgang Michael Korn, Luis E. Raez, Stephen V. Liu, and Sai-Hong Ignatius Ou
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c-ROS1 ,Receptor tyrosine kinase fusions ,Non-small cell lung cancer ,Breast cancer ,Pan-tumor analysis ,Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens ,RC254-282 - Abstract
Abstract Background Two ROS1 tyrosine kinase inhibitors have been approved for ROS1 fusion positive (ROS1+) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tumors. We performed a pan-tumor analysis of the incidence of ROS1 fusions to assess if more ROS1+ patients who could benefit from ROS1 TKIs could be identified. Methods A retrospective analysis of ROS1 positive solid malignancies identified by targeted RNA sequencing and whole transcriptome sequencing of clinical tumor samples performed at Caris Life Science (Phoenix, AZ). Results A total of 259 ROS1+ solid malignancies were identified from approximately 175,350 tumors that underwent next-generation sequencing (12% from targeted RNA sequencing [Archer]; 88% from whole transcriptome sequencing). ROS1+ NSCLC constituted 78.8% of the ROS1+ solid malignancies, follow by glioblastoma (GBM) (6.9%), and breast cancer (2.7%). The frequency of ROS1 fusion was approximately 0.47% among NSCLC, 0.29% for GBM, 0.04% of breast cancer. The mean tumor mutation burden for all ROS1+ tumors was 4.8 mutations/megabase. The distribution of PD-L1 (22C3) expression among all ROS1+ malignancies were 0% (18.6%), 1%-49% (29.4%), and ≥ 50% (60.3%) [for NSCLC: 0% (17.8%); 1–49% (27.7%); ≥ 50% (53.9%). The most common genetic co-alterations of ROS1+ NSCLC were TP53 (29.1%), SETD2 (7.3%), ARIAD1A (6.3%), and U2AF1 (5.6%). Conclusions ROS1+ NSCLC tumors constituted the majority of ROS1+ solid malignancies with four major fusion partners. Given that > 20% of ROS1+ solid tumors may benefit from ROS1 TKIs treatment, comprehensive genomic profiling should be performed on all solid tumors.
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- 2023
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