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Exploring the utility of a NGS multigene panel to predict BCG response in patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer

BELARDINILLI FRANCESCA1,#, MICHELA DE MEO1,#, FRANCESCO DEL GIUDICE2, CARLO MARIA SCORNAJENGHI2, PAOLA GAZZANIGA1, ETTORE DE BERARDINIS2, LUCA MARINO3, FABIO MASSIMO MAGLIOCCA4, BENJAMIN INBEH CHUNG5, JAN ŁASZKIEWICZ6, VALENTINA MAGRI4, GIUSEPPE GIANNINI1,7, CHIARA NICOLAZZO1,*
1 Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, 00161, Italy
2 Department of Maternal-Child and Urological Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, 00161, Italy
3 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, 00161, Italy
4 Department of Radiological, Oncological and Pathological Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, 00161, Italy
5 Department of Urology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
6 University Center of Excellence in Urology, Wrocław Medical University, Wrocław, 50556, Poland
7 Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Rome, 00161, Italy
* Corresponding Author: CHIARA NICOLAZZO. Email: email
# These authors contributed equally to this work

Oncology Research https://doi.org/10.32604/or.2024.056282

Received 18 July 2024; Accepted 12 October 2024; Published online 04 November 2024

Abstract

Objectives: Intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) therapy is a gold standard for patients with high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). Although a long-lasting therapeutic response is observed in most patients, BCG failure occurs in 30%–50% of patients and a progression to muscle-invasive disease is found in 10%–15%. Therefore, predicting high-risk patients who might not benefit from BCG treatment is critical. The purpose of this study was to identify, whether the presence of specific oncogenic mutations might be indicative of BCG treatment response. Methods: Nineteen high-grade NMIBC patients who received intravesical BCG were retrospectively enrolled and divided into “responders” and “non-responders” groups. Tissue samples from transurethral resection of bladder cancer were performed before starting therapy and were examined using a multigene sequencing panel. Results: Mutations in TP53, FGFR3, PIK3CA, KRAS, CTNNB1, ALK and DDR2 genes were detected. TP53 and FGFR3 were found to be the most frequently mutated genes in our cohort (31.6% and 26.3%, respectively), followed by PIK3CA (15.8%). In the BCG-responsive patient group, 90% of samples were found to have mutated genes, with almost 50% of them showing mutations in tyrosine kinase receptors and CTNNB1 genes. On the other hand, in the BCG-unresponsive group, we found mutations in 44.4% of samples, mainly in TP53 gene. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that a Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) multigene panel is useful in predicting BCG response in patients with NMIBC.

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Exploring the utility of a NGS multigene panel to predict BCG response in patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer

Keywords

Non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC); Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG); Macropinocytosis; Molecular profile; Next-generation sequencing (NGS)

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