Efficacy of Lorlatinib in Treatment-Naive Patients With ALK-Positive Advanced NSCLC in Relation to EML4::ALK Variant Type and ALK With or Without TP53 Mutations
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Publication Year 2023-11,Volume 18,Issue #11,Page 1581-1593
Journal Title
Journal of Thoracic Oncology
Publication Type
Research article
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Lorlatinib, a third-generation ALK tyrosine kinase inhibitor, improved outcomes compared with crizotinib in patients with previously untreated ALK-positive advanced NSCLC in the phase 3 CROWN study. Here, we investigated response correlates using plasma circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) and tumor tissue profiling. METHODS: ALK fusions and ALK with or without TP53 mutations were assessed by next-generation sequencing. End points included objective response rate (ORR), duration of response, and progression-free survival (PFS) by blinded independent central review on the basis of EML4::ALK variants and ALK with or without TP53 or other mutation status. RESULTS: ALK fusions were detected in the ctDNA of 62 patients in the lorlatinib arm and 64 patients in the crizotinib arm. ORRs were numerically higher with lorlatinib versus crizotinib for EML4::ALK variant 1 (v1; 80.0% versus 50.0%) and variant 2 (v2; 85.7% versus 50.0%) but were similar between the arms for variant 3 (v3; 72.2% versus 73.9%). Median PFS in the lorlatinib arm was not reached for EML4::ALK v1 and v2 and was 33.3 months for v3; in the crizotinib arm, median PFS was 7.4 months, not reached, and 5.5 months, respectively. ORRs and PFS were improved with lorlatinib versus crizotinib regardless of TP53 mutation status and in patients harboring preexisting bypass pathway resistance alterations. In the lorlatinib arm, PFS was lower in patients who had a co-occurring TP53 mutation. Results from ctDNA analysis were similar to those observed with tumor tissue samples. CONCLUSIONS: Patients with untreated ALK-positive advanced NSCLC derived greater clinical benefits, with higher ORRs and potentially longer PFS, when treated with lorlatinib compared with crizotinib, independent of EML4::ALK variant or ALK mutations, TP53 mutations, or bypass resistance alterations.
Publisher
Elsevier
Keywords
Humans; Crizotinib/therapeutic use; *Lung Neoplasms/drug therapy/genetics/pathology; *Antineoplastic Agents/therapeutic use; Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase/genetics; *Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/drug therapy/genetics/pathology; Lactams, Macrocyclic/adverse effects; Protein Kinase Inhibitors/therapeutic use; Mutation; Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/genetics; Alk; Circulating tumor DNA; Lorlatinib; Non-small cell lung cancer; Tyrosine kinase inhibitor
Department(s)
Medical Oncology
PubMed ID
37541389
Open Access at Publisher's Site
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtho.2023.07.023
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