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Abstract
Introduction/Background Molecular profiling of endometrial cancer has entered the staging classification and provides information on the treatment decision. In a prospective study we are validating magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based radiomics models for the prediction of histopathological and molecular characteristics in early-stage endometrial cancer (EC) patients.
Methodology Patients with newly diagnosed EC were prospectively enrolled and underwent to 3-T MR imaging before surgery. The same day of MRI, patients underwent plasma sample collection for the analysis of cell-free DNA. An experienced radiologist contoured the tumor and Radiomics features were extracted with an IBSI compliant software. Radiomic features were associated with histology, grade, deep myometrial invasion (DMI), lymphovascular space invasion (LVSI), and molecular profiling through Mann-Whitney U statistical test and removed redundancy with Pearson ρ.
Results Among 17 patients enrolled (mean age 74, range 25–91), 13 (76.5%) patients had an endometrioid hystology, 4 (23.5%) patients had a high grade tumor, 5 (29.4%) presented LVSI and 6 (35.3%) patients had a MMR deficient (MMRd) tumor. Cell-free DNA was detectable in all patients, with a median value of 0.7 ng/µl. No differences were observed between median cell-free DNA values in terms of grade, LVSI or MMR status. Among radiomics features, first-order features such ADC variance and maximum intensity showed a trend for the prediction of grade with p-value of 0.07 and 0.09 respectively at U test, but not for LVSI. ADC median value was instead associated with MMRd with a p-value of 0.05.
Conclusion MRI-based radiomics has great potential in developing advanced prognostication and molecular information. Our preliminary results demonstrate that MRI-based radiomics might predict MMR status in patients with early EC, and we plan to expand this work in larger cohorts.
Disclosures A.F. has received personal honoraria for lectures from Astrazeneca, GSK-Tesaro, Clovis, and advisory board from Jannsen, Astrazeneca, GSK-Tesaro.