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Hello, and welcome to the Gynecologic Oncology Journals Podcast.
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I'm Amanda Fader, a deputy editor of the journal.
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Today it is my pleasure to welcome two of the most foremost and admired clinical trial leaders in our field: Dr.
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Kathleen Moore, Gynecologic Oncology Professor and Deputy Director of the Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center at the University of Nebraska, who is the corresponding author of the article we will be discussing today: Biomarker Heterogeneity and Efficacy of Dervalumab plus Carboplatin Paclitaxol, followed by Durvalumab, with or without Olaparib in patients with mismatch repair proficient endometrial cancer, exploratory analyses of the DuoE GOG 3041 NGOT N10 trial.
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And also joining me is Dr.
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Rames Eskander, Professor of Gynecologic Oncology and Medical Director of the UC San Diego Moore's Cancer Center Clinical Trials Office and the Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Director, who is the lead author on the accompanying clinical commentary for the March Editors Choice article.
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The articles are available at Gynecologic Oncology-online.net.
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Thank you so much for joining us, Doctors Moore and Eskander.
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It's great to be here together.
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So I'd like to start with you, Dr.
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Moore.
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Can you briefly summarize the rationale, study design, and key findings for the DuoE trial and particularly within the Mismatch Repair Proficient Cohort?
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So, what why focus this exploratory analysis specifically on this Mismatch Repair Proficient subgroup and why were these particular biomarkers and histologies selected to analyze?
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Sure.
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So I'll start with the rationale.
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When we talk about patients with what we call PMMR, proficient mismatch repair tumors, this is actually the majority of the patients we take care of.
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So 70 to 80% of endometrial cancer.
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And historically, they derive less benefit from immune checkpoint blockade, at least alone, than the deficient mismatch repair tumor counterparts.
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So the unmet need sits mostly there amongst that PMMR group.
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DuoE was the first phase three study to combine immunotherapy with PARP inhibition in endometrial cancer.
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The biologic premise there was that PARP inhibition drives DNA damage that can kill tumor cells directly, and also prime and antitumor immune response through neoanigi release and inflammatory signaling, which is why adding a laparob to a checkpoint inhibitor could matter, even
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outside of the classic biomarker for PARP inhibitor, which is, of course, homologous recombination deficiency, which is a whole other conversation in endometrial cancer.
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So the design of DuoE, we enrolled 718 patients.
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They're randomized one-to-one-to-one, double-blind, placebo-controlled, global, with newly diagnosed advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer.
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It included carcinosarcomas notably.
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And we did central mismatch repair by IHC before randomization.
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So it was a key stratification factor and randomized patients to carboplatin, paclataxol alone, carboplatin, paclataxal, drvalumab, drvalumab maintenance, and then carboplatin, paclataxil, draval, draval magnets.
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And both experimental arms, the derva for dervalumab, and dervalumab olaprib, met the dual primary PFSN point with hazard ratios of 0.71 for derva alone and 0.55 for derva olaprib, both versus the control of chemo alone.
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By mismatch repair, of course, derva's largest effect was in DMMR with a hazard ratio of 0.42, and that's not surprising.
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But in PMMR, Derva alone gave a hazard ratio of 0.77, which is, I think, clinically relevant.
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But adding Olapra maintenance here moved that hazard ratio to 0.57 with a confidence interval that was pretty tight, 0.44 to 0.73.
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So we zeroed in on this PMMR subgroup.
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It's the large majority of patients enrolled to the clinical trial.
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And it's the group where Olapra of addition looked like it contributed the most incremental value.
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DMMR didn't really benefit at all because they had high immune checkpoint effectiveness.
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So we wanted to understand more about the molecular kind of texture of this PMMR group.
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Because I think we're going to talk about PMMR isn't one thing.
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So who were the patients, who are their, what were their tumors, and whether benefit was concentrated in one subset of this or broadly across all molecular subsets of PMMR.
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And so the biomarkers that were selected, we had to pick some, we couldn't pick everything, were based on the promise groups, the promise-defined groups.
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So poly, TP53 are those that are increasingly used in practice and carry a lot of prognostic weight.
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So we anchored on those.
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And then PDL1, of course, is a predictive marker for anti-PDL1 therapies.
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We looked at homogenous recombination repair mutations because HRD is not a validated marker yet.
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And BRACA, because those
are associated with, of course, PARP inhibitors.
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And then there were some others sort of sprinkled in, but those were the main ones.
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That's great.
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You know, as your manuscript title implies, you observed a great deal of biological heterogeneity in this broad class of endometrial cancer patients with PMMR disease and with several potentially actionable mutations in your study cohort.
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Was that surprising to you that there was such a high rate of biomarker expression in this PMMR cohort and that more than half expressed two or more biomarkers?
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Well, I think that we had hints of this from some of the readouts that we were seeing from Dr.
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Eskander's study, from Ruby.
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We were starting to see hints that of what we, I think we've all known that PMMR is a heterogeneous group at a more kind of probably a more varied set of tumors than just this dichotomization of DMMR, PMMR.
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But I do think it was somewhat surprising and a little humbling to see just how heterogeneous this group is and the overlap of biomarkers, I think it's going to be a common thing that we talk about in a lot of our tumors because it's going to challenge us to really understand the predictive value of each of these and in the context of the presence of one another to best individualized therapies for our patients moving forward.
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So as you alluded to, in now, this was a subset analysis.
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So we had 84% of the biomarker evaluable population was positive for at least one of the markers we were looking at.
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So it's pretty common to find one.
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53% of our biomarker evaluable population had two or more.
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So the majority of patients had two or more biomarkers.
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And the most common were PDL1, which I'm not sure we care about here, and TP53, which we may start to carry about a lot at 67 and 59%, respectively, and 44% had both of those.
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So I think the framing here is that you reframe PMMR as a more molecularly diverse bucket rather than a single entity.
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And the overlap, I think, is going to be the story here in terms of how we move forward.
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I'll point out the thing that's missing from this analysis, because we all are going to kind of throw rocks at our glass houses, is high two is not part of the analysis.
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That would be a logical thing.
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I wish we had it so that we could look at the likely TP53 per two positive group and then see how Olaparib worked there, given the rise of TDXC, and you're going to potentially need to be making decisions for that group of patients.
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So there are missing things from this analysis that we can all always look back on things and wish we'd done them a little differently.
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Yeah, balancing scientific idealism with, you know, pragmatic, getting the biomarker work done.
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I get it.
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But the contributions are really meaningful here, I think, and very thought-provoking about what do we do next.
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And so I'll turn now to Dr.
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Eskander.
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You you authored a very thoughtful and elegant commentary to this work and you know discussed a lot about tumoral biomarker validation.
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So, which tumoral biomarkers are validated currently in endometrial cancer and how should we interpret the current biomarker analysis we're discussing on the podcast?
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Where do we go from here with this provocative data and potential future validation of exploratory biomarkers?
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Thank you for the question and congratulations again to Dr.
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Moore and the co-authors for this work because it is very important for us to start to really think about the relevance of these molecular characteristics within the mismatch repair proficient population.
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I will say that this answer might be debated depending on who you ask.
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Although the way I interpret evaluation of these biomarkers, and for clarity's purposes, some can be prognostic for clinical outcomes, some are known to be predictive of response to a therapeutic intervention.
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And then there's going to be a group of biomarkers that may be both prognostic and predictive in terms of clinical outcomes.
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And I think it's important to keep each of those buckets clear in our minds as we have these discussions.
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So currently, biomarkers that we use to inform therapy selection that it's been associated to be predictive of response really hinge on the tumor mutational burden status.
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We know that we have FDA disease agnostic approvals based on tumor mutational burden status high.
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We know that we have also biomarker mismatch repair deficiency, which you can think of as linked to tumor mutational burden, that is also associated with an FDA-approved indication for immune checkpoint inhibition across solid tumors.
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So the mismatch repair deficiency status, the TMB high status, and the MSI high status.
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And one of the things that I will also tie into this is what you'll see as we think about biomarkers predictive of response to a therapeutic intervention, is we see a lot of consistency amongst trials
that are done in a certain disease setting, but even amongst disease agnostic manner, meaning different disease settings, different solid tumors with a therapeutic intervention and a biomarker.
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And so I will add to that also the emergence of HER2, which has existed in the GYN space and the breast, of course, for a period of time, but with the destiny pan tumor O2, now we have again a disease agnostic approval for a therapeutic drug with a HER23 in the NCCN compendium.
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It expands it to 2 and 3 plus.
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But in my mind, those are biomarkers for which we have a therapeutic intervention tied to the presence of that actionable biomarker, which predicts a clinical response.
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And some of these, of course, can also be prognostic for outcome.
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So those are where I believe to be the most mature biomarkers predictive of response right now.
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I really appreciate that.
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Going into our, you know, our real-world clinics here and taking this data forward, I'm curious, and we'll start with you, Dr.
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Eskander, how do you approach molecular testing for your endometrial cancer patients, which biomarkers are routinely tested?
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At what point in the care pathway is there a sequence that you prefer or that is recommended by guidelines?
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It's an important question because it affects all of us in our practices.
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We employed a strategy that would help minimize the risk that we would miss a biomarker that could be important in the care of this patient's treatment paradigm.
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So in our institution, every patient gets mismatropare immunohistochemistry, not because of the mismatropare deficiency implications for therapy, but because of identification of Lynch syndrome.
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And we need to emphasize that.
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We should also mention that the NCCN guidelines for germline genetic testing for endometrial cancer were updated recently, and that's very important because again have implications for patients and family members.
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And we also do ER and PR expression levels done by IHC.
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We do HER to IHC on essentially all non-endometrioid histologies, irrespective of stage.
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And then we do it on advanced stage endometrioid patients and high grade lesions.
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And in addition to that, in patients who have advanced stage and/or any recurrent disease, we also send NGS testing on those patients.
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So independent of the IHC that's being done locally at our institution, we send that tissue out for NGS testing as well.
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So we have that entire data set available to us as we think about treating that patient, both at that setting, and then of course, if they were to develop disease recurrent.
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Yeah, thank you, Dr.
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Eskander.
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I think that's a very, very pragmatic and reasonable approach.
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Dr.
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Moore, did you do something similar at the University of Nebraska?
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Yeah, I think that's I think increasingly a very uh adopted approach.
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We do something very similar.
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And I was very glad that Ramez uh mentioned the new update to the recommendations for genetic testing for endometrial cancer.
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It's probably something we need to talk about as a society more broadly and the implementation of those recommendations.
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Um kind of came out of the blue a little bit for all of us.
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I was like, oh, why that's a good thing.
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But now I gotta like catch everybody up patience.
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That's a lot of patient.
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Yeah, so I think that was a good thing just to bring up.
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Maybe we should say TBD on discussion of that moving forward.
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But I 100% agree with the remainder of that discussion.
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And uh it's incredibly important to develop the sort of pathways within your institutions because everybody's institution looks a little bit different, that allows you to get all of those through whatever mechanisms uh make the most sense for your for your particular site.
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Absolutely.
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Yes, I agree with the new universal testing guideline.
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Uh, it's really going to require a lot of thought and mobilization and commentary about how we move forward with that.
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But it's clear that universal molecular testing is critically important in these patients.
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I'm I'm curious how how you handle poly testing at your centers and at what phase of care you consider doing that.
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I mean, we are not doing poly testing in early stage patients.
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In Oklahoma, where I was previously, we had rainbow open, and so there was testing as a part of that clinical trial.
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But because it's NGS, it's just not something that we're doing without some prompt, you know, currently.
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So it's really something we're seeing when we do NGS in the same setting that Ram is alluded to in this sort of advanced recurrent setting, is where we discover poly.
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Not saying that's ideal, because you would want the
opportunity to de-escalate, maybe a dedifferentiated tumor if it were poly.
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And that might be a place where we would look, but we don't have that trial open.
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And so we are not de-escalating off clinical trial.
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So it's just not something that we're driven to look for right now because we wouldn't act on it in an early stage situation.
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Yeah, I agree completely.
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And I can't emphasize more the comment Dr.
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Moore just made, which is I would never de-escalate a patient who would be indicated to receive systemic therapy based on data results for a pole E mutation off of a clinical trial.
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Because the reality is the data regarding prognostic impact of Pole E is based on retrospectively collected data with patients receiving therapeutic intervention.
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So I think it's really important that those patients be, you know, enrolled on study so that we can definitively answer this question and safely de-escalate in the future if those results end up panning out.
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Here, here.
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Well said.
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Let's pivot a little bit here to talk a bit more about the trial results.
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So, Dr.
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Moore, the original manuscript proposed carbopantlataxilon dervalumab followed by dervalumab and elabrib as a potential new option for patients with PMMR disease, citing uh, you know, pre-planned exploratory uh PMMR subgroup in which adding Elabrib further improved PFS beyond dervalumab maintenance alone for all biomarker subgroups studied.
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However, one of the commentaries or criticisms of that potential approach is that the trial primary endpoint of PFS was only powered to compare each experimental arm to the chemotherapy-only control arm and not to perform a statistical comparison between the two experimental arms, the dervalumab alone versus dervalumab plus elaparib uh arms.
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So, can you comment on what your thoughts on this in terms of practical application?
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And is this a design limitation that it should affect our interpretation of the apparent incremental benefit of a laparib?
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That is the key criticism that we kind of just have to concede.
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You're absolutely right.
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There was no formal statistical comparison between the Durva arm and the Dervo Olaparib arm.
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So the apparent incremental benefit of a laparib is a crossarm descriptive observation, not a tested hypothesis.
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And on top of that, every subgroup analysis in the paper is a post hoc exploratory with no alpha allocation, no type
one error control, and really just point estimates and not p-values.
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So a lot of everything that was in this paper where we say, oh, the apparent benefit extends across all of these subgroups, all post hoc and the comparison of the two arms is descriptive.
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So that is a key criticism that I can't, you know, explain away.
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So what I would say, I think what raises confidence that the Olaparib signal is real rather than just noise, uh, is the consistency.
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So across the biomarker known uh and the histology subgroups, every hazard ratio point estimate favored the treatment arm over control, and derva plus Olaparib was numerically better than derva alone across nearly all of them.
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A signal that holds direction across many independent cuts is harder to dismiss than a lone subgroup outlier, you know, to quote Rob Coleman.
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So I think it's biologically coherence, which is the part plus immunotherapy rationale we opened with.
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So the combination is an approved regimen based on, at least in Europe, based on the trial's intention to treat results.
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And I think where reasonable people can differ is exactly the incremental Olaparib and PMMR question, because that piece rests on a pre-planned but statistically untested comparison.
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So I'd frame it as a defensible option, supported by consistent exploratory data rather than something proven by a head-to-head test, and I'd weigh the tolerability cost against the expected gain for an individual patient kind of sitting in front of me at this point.
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Thank you, Dr.
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Moore.
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Dr.
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Askander, what is your approach to this?
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Have you started using Durvalimab elabrib combinatorial strategies in selected PMMR patients?
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Yeah, this is it's an important and nuanced uh question, both in decision.
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I have had a patient actually who had a known germline BRCA1 mutation and developed a metastatic serous endometrial cancer.
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And interestingly, her serous endometrial cancer was her 2-1 plus by IHC.
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And so when I was caring for this patient in my clinical practice, it was actually shortly after the time that the data was initially presented and published.
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We spoke about these results.
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There's, of course, strong biologic rationale for the use of PARP inhibitors in BRCA mutated ovarian cancer patients due to the amazing work that Dr.
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Moore, DiSilvestro, and colleagues did in the Solo 1 clinical trial.
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And so we spoke about the implications of that.
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We also spoke about the fact that they looked at BRCA and HR mutations as part of the clinical trial, but it was a small subset of patients and very difficult to understand the implications.
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But nonetheless, after our conversation in that situation, I offered it to this patient, and that's the decision we made.
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So she had chemotherapy and immune checkpoint inhibition, followed by immune checkpoint inhibition plus an oral PARP inhibitor as a maintenance strategy, and actually did very well for a period of time.
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Was on her maintenance PARP inhibitor for approximately, I want to say 13 months with her checkpoint until she developed disease progression.
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So clinically, I was hoping for a longer disease-free interval, of course, as we all do for our patients.
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But I did feel like in that scenario, there was clinical equipoids and having that conversation offering.
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Absent that population right now, I'm not routinely using a PARP inhibitor maintenance strategy in these patient cohorts or patients specifically who have, I should say, OLAPRA maintenance strategies in these endometrial cancer, PMMR endometrial cancer patients.
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And this is compelling data.
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There's no doubt about it, even if it is not powered and wasn't the primary question that the trial sought to answer.
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It's it's compelling.
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And we have patient populations we treat that with very high-risk histologies that are difficult to salvage.
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And I think when something's biologically plausible and there is evidence through shared decision making, certainly there are opportunities to offer more personalized approaches to their care.
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And hopefully we'll gain you know further insight into this with future trials.
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Dr.
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Eskander, are there any additional study considerations that our podcast listeners should keep in mind?
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And then Dr.
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Moore, I'll let you have the final word on any additional key takeaways you'd like our listeners to know.
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Yeah, I think I kind of began the conversation by mentioning this.
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I think the most meaningful contribution in this work is that.
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Biomarker analysis, the value of it is not necessarily only in finding a single predictive biomarker.
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It's really illustrating that this PMMR patient population is heterogeneous.
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And that most patients were identified to have a biomarker, as already alluded to, over half had more than one.
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And what I love, and I and I talk to this about the fellows of my training program and colleagues, as I say, we're living in a time where drug development is happening at a pace that is incredibly rapid, and the technology is available, and being able to design therapeutic drugs that are able to target a particular biomarker is continuing to emerge.
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You know, Dr.
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Vader, you yourself are now leading an NRG cooperative group trial that's trying to take advantage of the P53 molecular aberration to prospectively validate that that is going to be a biomarker that's going to help us in inform treatment strategies with the addition of anti-angiogenic therapy, potentially with immune checkpoint or bibicism ab on its own.
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So I am super excited about this.
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Again, I think this is critical for us to do for more of our studies because really this is going to be the foundation for which we move the science forward and begin to continue to identify therapeutic options that most likely will benefit our patients.
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Thank you, Dr.
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Eskander.
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Dr.
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Moore?
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Yeah, I really agree with all of those comments.
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I would maybe just come back to closing on DuoE and what we've learned from this particular analysis.
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It adds to the literature, you know, from the studies that Ramez and Matt Powell and others now you have led, that PMMR into mutual cancer is probably a term that will not need to go away.
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Probably is going to be not DMMR in the future.
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It's a very molecularly heterogeneous group with a heavy biomarker overlap.
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And I think that's kind of the headline for this podcast and will be the headline for how we design studies moving forward.
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Specific to DuoE, the benefit of adding Olaparib, we think was broad across the biomarkers that we evaluated in histologic subgroups rather than restricted to a single molecular niche, which was actually what I thought was going to be the finding when we did this.
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So that's why we do studies, because often you're wrong when you have a bias.
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So I think it does present some support for a combination strategy over a narrow biomarker-gated sort of strategy.
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And they do support use of this combination as a potential new option for PMMR disease, which would expand on the primary analysis.
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But what we are waiting for, and Dr.
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Weston will present hopefully in the near future, is the mature overall survival.
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So I think that's really going to be quite important for putting any PFS advantages into context.
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More prospective validation of these exploratory biomarkers, as uh Rama's already alluded to, many of them are not validated in this setting yet.
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Building HER2 and other emerging targets into future correlative work, and then doing all this molecular classification up front is what's going to make any of this actionable at the bedside, you know, in real time for patients moving forward.
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So lots learned here, but still lots to do.
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Well, thank you both so much for being on our podcast today and for your remarkable research contributions to our field that are truly improving or saving many more lives.
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And this was a remarkable and provocative work that answered many important questions and leaves many questions unanswered, but it's exciting to look ahead at what's to come.
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And I suspect those questions will be answered in the coming years.
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