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Abstract
Introduction/Background Currently, little is known about correlations between the type and location of mutations of the BReast CAncer (BRCA) 1/2 genes and response to Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors (PARPi) in ovarian cancer (OC). Clinical data from PAOLA1 study suggest that patients with mutations in DNA binding domain (DNA-BD) of BRCA1 are more sensitive to the combination of olaparib/bevacizumab and mutations in the DNA-BD of BRCA2 confer excellent outcomes. No data are available on mutation types and PARPi single agent sensitivity.
Methodology This multicenter, retrospective study involved BRCA1/2 mutated high-grade serous OC patients receiving PARPi as maintenance, after first-line, platinum-based chemotherapy. Clinical and survival data were collected from 4 academic centers. Patients were classified according to the mutation type: frameshift, missense, nonsense and splicing. The primary outcome was progression-free survival (PFS) among the different groups. PFS was also analyzed according to the involved functional domain (FD) of BRCA1 (RING, DNA-BD or BRCA1 C terminus [BRCT]) and BRCA2 (PALB2, RAD51-BD; DNA-BD).
Results 140 patients treated between 2018–2022 were included. 81(57%) and 60 (43%) harbored BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations, respectively. Overall, 79 (56%) patients presented frameshift mutation, 17 (12%) missense, 36 (25.5%) nonsense and 8 (5.7%) splicing mutation.After a median follow-up of 20 months, patients harboring a missense mutation had 3-yr PFS of 94%, compared with 73% of those with a frameshift mutation (p=0.05) and 75% of those with a nonsense mutation (p=0.065) (figure 1A).
Ad regarding the FDs, in patients with DNA-BD mutation of BRCA1/2, 3-yr PFS was 91.4%, compared with 88.7% in mutation in the other domains (p=0.64) (figure 1B).
Conclusion In our cohort, missense mutation in the BRCA1/2 genes seems to confer longer PFS than other mutation types. Therefore, mutation type might impact PARPi response. Larger studies are needed to confirm this hypothesis-generating analysis.
Disclosures None