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Multicenter Study
. 2023 Dec 8;25(12):2273-2286.
doi: 10.1093/neuonc/noad114.

Clinical outcome of pediatric medulloblastoma patients with Li-Fraumeni syndrome

Anna S Kolodziejczak  1   2   3 Lea Guerrini-Rousseau  4   5 Julien Masliah Planchon  6 Jonas Ecker  1   2   3   7 Florian Selt  1   2   3   7 Martin Mynarek  8   9 Denise Obrecht  8 Martin Sill  1   10 Robert J Autry  1   10 Eric Stutheit-Zhao  1   10   11 Steffen Hirsch  1   3   10 Elsa Amouyal  12 Christelle Dufour  4   5 Olivier Ayrault  13 Jacob Torrejon  13 Sebastian M Waszak  14   15 Vijay Ramaswamy  16   17 Virve Pentikainen  18 Haci Ahmet Demir  19 Steven C Clifford  20 Ed C Schwalbe  20   21 Luca Massimi  22 Matija Snuderl  23 Kristyn Galbraith  23 Matthias A Karajannis  24 Katherine Hill  24 Bryan K Li  24 Mike Walsh  24 Christine L White  25   26   27 Shelagh Redmond  28 Loizou Loizos  29 Marcus Jakob  30 Uwe R Kordes  8 Irene Schmid  31 Julia Hauer  32 Claudia Blattmann  33 Maria Filippidou  34 Gianluca Piccolo  35 Wolfram Scheurlen  36 Ahmed Farrag  37   38 Kerstin Grund  39 Christian Sutter  39 Torsten Pietsch  40 Stephan Frank  41 Denis M Schewe  42 David Malkin  43 Myriam Ben-Arush  44 Astrid Sehested  45 Tai-Tong Wong  46 Kuo-Sheng Wu  47 Yen-Lin Liu  48 Fernando Carceller  49 Sabine Mueller  50 Schuyler Stoller  51 Michael D Taylor  16 Uri Tabori  17 Eric Bouffet  17   52 Marcel Kool  1   10   53 Felix Sahm  1   54 Andreas von Deimling  54 Andrey Korshunov  54 Katja von Hoff  55   56 Christian P Kratz  57 Dominik Sturm  1   7   58 David T W Jones  1   58 Stefan Rutkowski  8 Cornelis M van Tilburg  1   2   3   7 Olaf Witt  1   2   3   7 Gaëlle Bougeard  59 Kristian W Pajtler  1   3   7   10 Stefan M Pfister  1   3   7   10 Franck Bourdeaut  12 Till Milde  1   2   3   7
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Multicenter Study

Clinical outcome of pediatric medulloblastoma patients with Li-Fraumeni syndrome

Anna S Kolodziejczak et al. Neuro Oncol. .

Abstract

Background: The prognosis for Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) patients with medulloblastoma (MB) is poor. Comprehensive clinical data for this patient group is lacking, challenging the development of novel therapeutic strategies. Here, we present clinical and molecular data on a retrospective cohort of pediatric LFS MB patients.

Methods: In this multinational, multicenter retrospective cohort study, LFS patients under 21 years with MB and class 5 or class 4 constitutional TP53 variants were included. TP53 mutation status, methylation subgroup, treatment, progression free- (PFS) and overall survival (OS), recurrence patterns, and incidence of subsequent neoplasms were evaluated.

Results: The study evaluated 47 LFS individuals diagnosed with MB, mainly classified as DNA methylation subgroup "SHH_3" (86%). The majority (74%) of constitutional TP53 variants represented missense variants. The 2- and 5-year (y-) PFS were 36% and 20%, and 2- and 5y-OS were 53% and 23%, respectively. Patients who received postoperative radiotherapy (RT) (2y-PFS: 44%, 2y-OS: 60%) or chemotherapy before RT (2y-PFS: 32%, 2y-OS: 48%) had significantly better clinical outcome then patients who were not treated with RT (2y-PFS: 0%, 2y-OS: 25%). Patients treated according to protocols including high-intensity chemotherapy and patients who received only maintenance-type chemotherapy showed similar outcomes (2y-PFS: 42% and 35%, 2y-OS: 68% and 53%, respectively).

Conclusions: LFS MB patients have a dismal prognosis. In the presented cohort use of RT significantly increased survival rates, whereas chemotherapy intensity did not influence their clinical outcome. Prospective collection of clinical data and development of novel treatments are required to improve the outcome of LFS MB patients.

Keywords: Li–Fraumeni syndrome; TP53; medulloblastoma; survival.

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Conflict of interest statement

O.W. and T.M. received research funding from Biomed Valley and Day One Therapeutics. C.M.v.T. participated in advisory boards for Novartis, Alexion and Bayer. U. K. participated in advisory board for Novartis and GBT. S.R. participated in advisory boards for Bayer, BMS, Novartis, and Roche, and in a DMSC for Cellgene. M.A.K. received research funding from Y-mAbs Therapeutics. M.S. is scientific advisor and shareholder of C2i Genomics and Halo Dx and received research funding from Lilly USA.

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Graphical Abstract
Figure 1:
Figure 1:
Characteristics of the Li–Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) medulloblastoma (MB) patient cohort. (A) Age distribution at MB diagnosis; (B) TP53 constitutional variants in LFS MB patients; (C) TP53 variant pathogenicity; (D) Somatic TP53 mutational status in LFS-associated MB (LOH—loss of heterozygosity); (E) Origin of constitutional TP53 variants in LFS MB patients; (F) t-SNE clustering of DNA methylation profiles of LFS MBs with a reference SHH-MB cohort; (G) LFS-associated MB subgroups classified based on DNA methylation profile.
Figure 2:
Figure 2:
Survival of Li–Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) medulloblastoma (MB) patients: (A) Progression-free (PFS), event-free (EFS) and overall survival (OS) for LFS MB patients; (B) Impact of tumor resection radicality on survival of LFS MB patients (GTR—gross-total resection, STR—subtotal resection); (C) Impact of M-status on survival in LFS MB patients.
Figure 3:
Figure 3:
Impact of treatment modalities on survival of Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) medulloblastoma (MB) patients: (A) Impact of relative chemotherapy (CT) and radiotherapy (RT) timepoints on survival of LFS MB patients; (B) Impact of overall chemotherapy intensity on survival of LFS MB patients (HI—high-intensity, SI—standard-intensity); (C) Impact of overall chemotherapy intensity on survival of LFS MB patients with distinguished PNET HR+ protocol.
Figure 4:
Figure 4:
Medulloblastoma (MB) recurrence pattern in Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) patients: (A) Recurrence frequency; (B) Impact of metastasis (M)-status on recurrence frequency; (C) Recurrence pattern according to M-status; (D) Impact of radiation treatment (RT) on recurrence frequency; (E) Recurrence location in relation to the RT field; F: Impact of resection staging on recurrence frequency (GTR—gross-total resection, STR—subtotal resection).

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