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Clinical Trial
. 2015 Mar 17;112(6):963-70.
doi: 10.1038/bjc.2015.37.

Correlation of extended RAS and PIK3CA gene mutation status with outcomes from the phase III AGITG MAX STUDY involving capecitabine alone or in combination with bevacizumab plus or minus mitomycin C in advanced colorectal cancer

T J Price  1 , M A Bruhn  2 , C K Lee  3 , J E Hardingham  4 , A R Townsend  1 , K P Mann  3 , J Simes  3 , A Weickhardt  5 , J W Wrin  6 , K Wilson  3 , V Gebski  3 , G Van Hazel  7 , B Robinson  8 , D Cunningham  9 , N C Tebbutt  5
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Correlation of extended RAS and PIK3CA gene mutation status with outcomes from the phase III AGITG MAX STUDY involving capecitabine alone or in combination with bevacizumab plus or minus mitomycin C in advanced colorectal cancer

T J Price et al. Br J Cancer. .

Abstract

Background: Mutations affecting RAS genes are now established predictive markers of nonresponse to anti-EGFR antibodies in advanced CRC. This analysis assessed the prognostic and predictive impact of extended RAS and PIK3CA gene mutation status in patients receiving capecitabine plus or minus bevacizumab (±mitomycin C) in the randomised phase III MAX study.

Methods: DNA was extracted from archival macrodissected formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tumour tissue. Mutation status was determined using pyrosequencing, confirmed with Sanger sequencing (for equivocal RAS) and correlated with efficacy outcomes. Predictive analyses were undertaken using a test for interaction involving both C vs CB+CBM.

Results: Of the available 280 of the 471 (59.4%) patients, mutations in KRAS exons 2, 3 and 4 and NRAS 2, 3 and 4 were as follows: 32%, 2.9%, 2.2%, 1.4%, 0.7% and 0% (total RAS MT 39%). The PIK3CA MT rate was 7.5% exon 9 and 3.6% exon 20. Extended RAS gene mutation status (WT vs MT) had no prognostic impact for PFS (HR 0.91 (0.71-1.17)) or OS (HR 0.95 (0.71-1.25)). The RAS gene mutation status was not predictive of the effectiveness of bevacizumab for PFS (HR 0.56 (0.37-0.85) for RAS MT and HR 0.69 (0.5-0.97) for RAS WT; P for interaction 0.50). The PIK3CA mutation was neither predictive for bevacizumab effect nor prognostic.

Conclusion: Of KRAS exon 2 WT patients, 10% had additional RAS mutations. Neither all RAS gene mutation status nor PIK3CA mutation status was prognostic for PFS or OS, or predictive of bevacizumab outcome in patients with advanced CRC.

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Figure 1
CONSORT diagram MAX AGITG TRIAL: RAS analysis.
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Figure 2
Hazard ratios for progression-free survival according to RAS and PIK3CA. Forest plot to demonstrate hazard ratios for progression-free survival in subgroup analyses by RAS and PIK3CA status.
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Figure 3
Kaplan–Meier curves for overall survival according to RAS and PIK3CA status. A comparison of the overall survival of all patients according to their (A) RAS and (B) PIK3A status
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