Geburtshilfe Frauenheilkd 2018; 78(11): 1147
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1675442
Abstracts
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Significant Overall Survival Improvement In Proliferative Subtype Ovarian Cancer Patients Receiving Bevacizumab

S Kommoss
1   Department of Women's Health, Tuebingen University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany
,
F Heitz
2   Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Essen, Germany
,
BJN Winterhoff
3   Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
,
C Wang
4   Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
,
J Sehouli
5   AGO and Charité Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
,
C Aliferis
6   Institute for Health Informatics (IHI), Academic Health Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
,
R Kimmig
7   Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
,
J Wang
6   Institute for Health Informatics (IHI), Academic Health Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
,
S Ma
6   Institute for Health Informatics (IHI), Academic Health Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
,
N de Gregorio
8   Department of Obstrics and Gynecology, Universtity of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
,
S Mahner
9   Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany, Munich, Germany
,
A du Bois
2   Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Essen, Germany
,
R Tourani
6   Institute for Health Informatics (IHI), Academic Health Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
,
TW Park-Simon
10   Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
,
K Baumann
11   Klinikum der Stadt Ludwigshafen am Rhein gGmbH, Ludwigshafen, Germany;
,
FA Taran
1   Department of Women's Health, Tuebingen University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany
,
F Kommoss
12   Institut für Pathologie im Medizin Campus Bodensee, Friedrichshafen, Germany
,
W Schroeder
13   Gynaekologicum Bremen, Bremen, Germany
,
SC Dowdy
4   Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
,
J Pfisterer
14   Gynecologic Oncology Center, Kiel, Germany
› Author Affiliations Acknowledgement: The AGO-TraFo is grateful to the German Cancer Society (Deutsche Krebsgesellschaft e.V.) for their financial support of the 10th scientific symposium of the AGO-TraFo.
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Publication Date:
26 November 2018 (online)

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Purpose:

We previously demonstrated that bevacizumab may differentially improve ovarian cancer progression-free survival (PFS) depending on TCGA molecular subtypes. Despite recent progress in the molecular biology of epithelial ovarian cancer, results have not yet translated into individualized treatment options or improved disease outcome. In the current study we correlated mature overall survival data with TCGA molecular subtypes in ovarian cancer patients from the AGO-OVAR11 (ICON7) trial.

Experimental Design:

Whole genome DASL gene expression arrays were performed on FFPE tissues from the AGO OVAR11 (ICON7) trial. Patients were stratified into four TCGA molecular subtypes. Correlation between molecular subtype and the efficacy of randomly assigned therapy with bevacizumab was assessed.

Results:

Among all four TCGA suptypes, only patients with tumors of the proliferative subtype had a statistically significant benefit from the addition of bevacizumab to standard chemotherapy. Median PFS and OS of proliferative subtype patients was 22.17 and 52.43 months respectively if bevacizumab was added to standard chemotherapy but only 12.0 and 35.27 months in the control arm group of patients. Thus anti-angiogenic therapy resulted in a median improvement of PFS of 10.2 months (HR 0.48 [95%CI 0.3 – 0.76], p = 0.002) and in a median improvement of overall survival (OS) of 17.2 months (HR 0.54 [95%CI 0.3 – 0.9], p = 0.021) among TCGA proliferative subtype patients. The remaining three non-proliferative subtypes showed no statistically significant improvement of PFS or OS after addition of bevacizumab.

Conclusions:

We demonstrate for the first time significant OS benefit in patients with TCGA proliferative molecular subtype. Our findings may help to develop molecularly stratified treatment strategies and hold potential to ultimately improve outcome in patients with ovarian cancer.