Management of
Alexander Drilon MD
Thoracic Oncology Service
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Non Small-Cell
Lung Cancers
The following material is intended for MSKCC internal medicine housestaff teaching purposes
only. The slides are courtesy of Dr. Anne Covey and were updated for the LibGuide in 2012-2013.
Leading cause of cancer
death
• 7 out of 10 of patients will die
of disease
• 220K cases/year in the US
• 160K deaths/year
• more deaths than colorectal
and breast cancers combined
• majority with advanced disease
at diagnosis
• high recurrence rates in early-
stage disease
history
Lung Cancer: a 20th Century Epidemic
• 20 year latency period
• 1910: widespread
manufacturing of cigarettes
• 1930s: ↑ incidence in men
• 1960s: ↑ incidence in
women after WW2
Doll and Hill:
British
Doctors Study
causal relationship established
in the 1950s
• 1964 Surgeon General’s Warning
Surgeon
General’s
Warning
British
Doctor’s
Study
lung cancer mortality
• ↓ in men
• plateaued in women
etiology
Smoking accounts for 90% of
all lung cancers
• risk associated with pack-
year history and age of
initiation
• 10-15 years to reduce risk
by 75% but never
approaches zero
• N-nitrosamines &
polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons
Other causes
• Radon, asbestos, nickel, ra
diation
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
Smoking +
Asbestos
Smoking Passive Smoke Asbestos Radon
Relative Risk of Developing Lung Cancer
screening
lung CA
CXR and sputum cytology
• Johns Hopkins
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering
• no mortality benefit
• n=31,567 patients
screened
• annual low-dose helical
chest CT scans
• 484 patients diagnosed
• 85% with Stage I disease
• survival was 92% at 10
years (stage I cancer
resected within a month)
• historical standard of 75%
at 5 years
lead time
length
time
overdiagnosis bias
• POPULATION
• age 55 to 74
• heavy smoker or former
smoker (quit within last
15 years)
• no prior cancer within
past 5 years
• 53,454 patients
randomized
• CXR vs. low dose helical
CT scan
• annual imaging x 3
• 3% of scans led to diagnosis of
lung CA, NNS 288, false
positive rate = 23 %
National Lung Screening Trial
20% reduction in
lung cancer
mortality
7% reduction
in all cause
mortality
histologyNSCLC
• Adenocarcinoma
• Squamous Cell Carcinoma
• Large Cell Carcinoma
87%
NSCLC
SCLC
Adenocarcinoma
• Most common histology (40%)
• Least associated with smoking, but
majority who get it have been exposed
to cigarette smoke (70%)
• TTF1-positive on IHC
Location
• peripheral, scar tissue
Presentation
• frequently metastatic
disease
• hypertrophic
osteoarthropathy, Trosseau’s
• BAC: multiple pulmonary
nodules
Squamous Cell
• Second most common (30%)
• most common histology until 1987
• 90% associated with cigarette
smoking
• P63 (p40) positive on IHC
• Presentation
• centrally located mass  now
shifting
• most common histology in Pancoast
tumors
• PTHrP: hypercalcemia
Large Cell
• Least common subtype (11%)
• associated with gynecomastia
• advances in histopathologic technique: reclassification of
undifferentiated large cell tumors to adenoCA or SCC
staging
NSCLC
Stage Clinical Stage Pathologic Stage
IA 50 73
IB 43 58
IIA 36 46
IIB 25 36
IIIA 19 24
IIIB 7 9
IV 2 13
International System for Staging
Percent Surviving at 5 Years
Stage IIIb Stage IV
workup
Clinical Staging
• PET/CT chest and upper abdomen, bone scan
• MRI Brain: node-negative disease >3cm or node-positive
disease, brain metastases incidence 10-15%
PET-positive lymph
nodes
lymph nodes larger
than 1 cm on CT
regardless of FDG
uptake
Mediastinal
Evaluation
Mediastinoscopy
Endoscopic Biopsy
Transbronchial Biopsy
management
NSCLC
surgery
Stage Ia
Ib
Stage IIa
IIb
SURGERY
SURGERY CHEMO
NSCLC Management: Stage I and II
Surgical Approach
Wedge Resection
FVC < 1.5 L
Surgical Approach
Lobectomy
FVC at least 1.5 L
Surgical Approach
Pneumonectomy
FVC at least 2L
Preoperative Evaluation
Stereotactic Body RT
>60 Gy, good local control rates
patients who are poor
surgical candidates
management
NSCLC
surgeryadjuvant chemo
Stage Ia
Ib
Stage IIa
IIb
SURGERY
SURGERY CHEMO
NSCLC Management: Stage I and II
RCTs: Adjuvant Chemo
IALT
Le Chevalier
2003
• Cisplatin + Etop/Vinor/Vinblas/Vindes
• PORT allowed
• Increased DFS, median OS, OS at 5yr by 4%
NCIC
Winston
NEJM 2005
• Cisplatin + Vinorelbine
• Median OS from 73  94 months (21 mos)
• Increased OS at 5yr by 15%
France
Douilliard
Lancet Onc 2006
• Cisplatin + Vinorelbine
• Median OS from 43  65 months (12 mos)
Meta-Analyses: Adjuvant Chemo
Hotta
JCO
2004
• Cisplatin-based chemo, Uracil-Tegafur
• N= 5,716
• Increased OS, HR 0.87
LACE
Pignon
JCO 2008
• Cisplatin-based chemo
• N=4,500
• Stage IB HR 0.92, Stage II HR 0.83, Stage III HR 0.83
SURGERY CHEMO
4 Cycles of Therapy
• Cisplatin + Vinorelbine
• Cisplatin + Docetaxel
• Cisplatin + Gemcitabine
• Cisplatin + Pemetrexed
Adjuvant Chemotherapy
management
NSCLC
modality
multi
therapy
Stage IIIa
IIIb
CHEMO
CHEMORADIATION
SURGERY
NSCLC Management
RT
sequence of treatments is variable
ChemoRT in Unresectable Stage III
Furuse 1999 JCO
Stage Ia
Ib
Stage IIa
IIb
Stage IIIa
IIIb
Stage IV
SURGERY
CHEMO
CHEMORADIATION
SURGERY CHEMO
SURGERY
CHEMO
NSCLC Management
RT
management
NSCLC
chemo
therapy
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
Median Overall Survival in Months
Systemic Therapy: Cisplatin Doublet
2 drugs >
1 drug
• Lilenbaum Semin Onc 99
• Lilenbaum ASCO 02
• Sederholm Semin Onc 02
2 drugs <
3 drugs
• Crimo JCO 99
• Soguet Ann Onc 02
• Greco Cancer 02
Cisplatin >
Carboplatin
• Belani Semin Onc 01
• Rosell Ann Onc 02
• Ardizonni Meta JNCI 07
• Hotta Meta JCO 04
Systemic Therapy: Histology Matters
• PEMETREXED: non-squamous histology
• GEMCITABINE: squamous histology
• PACLITAXEL, VINORELBINE: any histology
Switch Maintenance
• Increased PFS, Median OS 10.6  13.4 mos (2.8 mo)
Ciuleneau Lancet 2009
platinum-
based
therapy Pemetrexed
• Increased PFS, Median OS 11  12 mos (2 mo)
Cappuzzo Saturn Trial
platinum-
based
therapy Erlotinib
management
NSCLC
targeted
therapy
Antiangiogenic Therapy
• BEVACIZUMAB
till progression
of disease
• Median OS 10.3
 12.3 mos
Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor
Cetuximab
• Monoclonal antibody to EGFR
• 60-80% of lung cancers express EGFR
on their surface (via
immunohistochemistry)
• FLEX: Cis/Vin ± Cetuximab
• ↑ benefit with H-score>300
Increased OS by 13%
HR 0.871
Cetuximab 400mg
erlotinib
gefitinib
tyrosine kinase inhibitors
competitive ATP inhibitors
POPULATION: IIIB or IV
adenoCA, never or light
smokers, Asian, untreated
RESPONSE RATE: gefitinib
(43%) vs. chemo (32%)
RESPONSE RATE (EGFR
Mutant): gefitinib (71%)
vs. chemo (47%)
QUALITY OF LIFE: better in
gefitinib arm
RR 73% vs. 33% PFS 10.8 vs. 5.4 mos p < 0.001
conserved LREA
motif
small in-frame
deletions residues
747-750
point
mutation
missense
mutation
PFS 14.6
months
PFS 9.7
months
TKI Resistance
EML4-ALK Inhibition
ALK-Rearranged Lung Cancers
Soda et al Nature 2007, Takeuchi CCR 2008, www.mycancergenome.org
Camidge et al Lancet Oncol 2012, Shaw et al Ann Oncol 2012
crizotinib
ALK-Rearranged Lung Cancers
1999
2004
2009
2012
Timeline of Putative Driver
Event Discovery
LUNG CANCERS
Carcinoid
Large Cell
Large Cell Neuroendocrine
5%
TISSUE IS THE ISSUE
Lung cancer is NOT one disease.
Crizotinib in ROS1-Rearranged Lung Cancer
PI3K and MEK Inhibition in KRAS-Mutant Lung Cancer
68/M former smoker with advanced KRAS G12D-mutant lung cancer
– BKM120 (PI3K inhibitor) + MEK-162 (MEK inhibitor)
– After 3 weeks: decreased perihilar mass and R-sided pulmonary
nodules, complete resolution of pain/respiratory symptoms
Immune Checkpoint Blockade
Ribas NEJM 2012, 366:2517-2519
ipilimumab Nivolumab, MK-3475
• BMS-936558/Nivolumab
• 122 advanced non-small cell lung carcinomas (total n=296)
• heavily pre-treated patients
• response rate: 16%
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thank

NSCLC housestaff

Editor's Notes

  • #65 ALK – RTK, normal dev’t and function of the nervous systemIn the initial phase I trial, patients whose tumors harbored an ALK fusion displayed a 60.8% radiographic objective response rate to the dual ALK/MET tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), crizotinib (Camidge et al. 2012). Median progression-free survival was demonstrated to be 9.7 months, and the probability of PFS at six months was estimated to be 87.9%. An international phase III trial randomizing patients with advanced lung cancer harboring ALK fusions to crizotinib vs. standard chemotherapy (docetaxel or pemetrexed) after disease progression on first-line treatment has recently been completed, and preliminary results support this survival benefit for crizotinib therapy (Shaw et al. 2012).Background Chromosomal rearrangements of anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) are associated with marked clinical responses to crizotinib, an orally available tyrosine kinase inhibitor targeting ALK. This global randomized phase III study compared the efficacy and safety of crizotinib (C) with standard chemotherapy (pemetrexed or docetaxel [P/D]) as 2nd-line therapy for patients (pts) with advanced ALK+ NSCLC.Methods Between Feb 2010 and Feb 2012, 347 pts with stage IIIB/IV ALK+ NSCLC previously treated with 1 prior platinum-based regimen were randomized to receive C 250 mg PO BID (n = 173) or either P 500 mg/m2or D 75 mg/m2 IV q3w (n = 174; 58% P, 42% D). ALK was detected by FISH in a central lab. Pts with progressive disease on P/D were offered C on PROFILE 1005. The primary endpoint was progression-free survival (PFS) per independent radiologic review; secondary endpoints included objective response rate (ORR), overall survival (OS), safety, and patient-reported outcomes.Results The study met its primary objective by demonstrating the superiority of C over P/D in prolonging PFS (median 7.7 vs 3.0 mo; HR 0.49; 95% CI 0.37–0.64; P &lt; 0.0001). ORR was significantly higher in pts treated with C (65% vs 20%; P &lt; 0.0001). Interim analysis of OS (28% events) showed no statistically significant difference between C and P/D (preliminary median estimate 20.3 vs 22.8 mo; HR 1.02; 95% CI 0.68–1.5; P = 0.5394), but was not adjusted for crossover (108 pts [62%] crossed over to C). The most common treatment-related adverse events (TRAE) with C were visual disturbance (59%), diarrhea (53%), nausea (52%), vomiting (44%), and elevated transaminases (36%), and with P/D, nausea (35%), fatigue (29%), neutropenia (22%), decreased appetite (21%), and alopecia (20%). The incidence of grade 3/4 TRAE was the same for C vs P/D (31%). The incidence of TRAE leading to discontinuation was 6% for C vs 10% for P/D. Duration of treatment was longer for C vs P/D (median cycles started 11 vs 4).Conclusions C showed significant improvement in PFS and ORR compared with P/D and had an acceptable safety profile. These findings establish C as the standard of care for pts with previously treated advanced ALK+ NSCLC
  • #67 ALK – RTK, normal dev’t and function of the nervous systemIn the initial phase I trial, patients whose tumors harbored an ALK fusion displayed a 60.8% radiographic objective response rate to the dual ALK/MET tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), crizotinib (Camidge et al. 2012). Median progression-free survival was demonstrated to be 9.7 months, and the probability of PFS at six months was estimated to be 87.9%. An international phase III trial randomizing patients with advanced lung cancer harboring ALK fusions to crizotinib vs. standard chemotherapy (docetaxel or pemetrexed) after disease progression on first-line treatment has recently been completed, and preliminary results support this survival benefit for crizotinib therapy (Shaw et al. 2012).Background Chromosomal rearrangements of anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) are associated with marked clinical responses to crizotinib, an orally available tyrosine kinase inhibitor targeting ALK. This global randomized phase III study compared the efficacy and safety of crizotinib (C) with standard chemotherapy (pemetrexed or docetaxel [P/D]) as 2nd-line therapy for patients (pts) with advanced ALK+ NSCLC.Methods Between Feb 2010 and Feb 2012, 347 pts with stage IIIB/IV ALK+ NSCLC previously treated with 1 prior platinum-based regimen were randomized to receive C 250 mg PO BID (n = 173) or either P 500 mg/m2or D 75 mg/m2 IV q3w (n = 174; 58% P, 42% D). ALK was detected by FISH in a central lab. Pts with progressive disease on P/D were offered C on PROFILE 1005. The primary endpoint was progression-free survival (PFS) per independent radiologic review; secondary endpoints included objective response rate (ORR), overall survival (OS), safety, and patient-reported outcomes.Results The study met its primary objective by demonstrating the superiority of C over P/D in prolonging PFS (median 7.7 vs 3.0 mo; HR 0.49; 95% CI 0.37–0.64; P &lt; 0.0001). ORR was significantly higher in pts treated with C (65% vs 20%; P &lt; 0.0001). Interim analysis of OS (28% events) showed no statistically significant difference between C and P/D (preliminary median estimate 20.3 vs 22.8 mo; HR 1.02; 95% CI 0.68–1.5; P = 0.5394), but was not adjusted for crossover (108 pts [62%] crossed over to C). The most common treatment-related adverse events (TRAE) with C were visual disturbance (59%), diarrhea (53%), nausea (52%), vomiting (44%), and elevated transaminases (36%), and with P/D, nausea (35%), fatigue (29%), neutropenia (22%), decreased appetite (21%), and alopecia (20%). The incidence of grade 3/4 TRAE was the same for C vs P/D (31%). The incidence of TRAE leading to discontinuation was 6% for C vs 10% for P/D. Duration of treatment was longer for C vs P/D (median cycles started 11 vs 4).Conclusions C showed significant improvement in PFS and ORR compared with P/D and had an acceptable safety profile. These findings establish C as the standard of care for pts with previously treated advanced ALK+ NSCLC
  • #74 High PDL1 expression in placenta, endothelium, heart, lung, and liverPDL1 in ovarian, melanoma, renal cell, lung, pancreas, cervix, urothelialPDL2 on macrophages, dendritic cells, not common on non-lymphoid