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ArticleOncology letters2021

Clinicopathological and molecular characteristics of patients with hypermutant lung cancer: A retrospective cohort study.

Hongbin Zhang, Yuan Wang, Qiaoxia Ji, Hongmei Cai, Xiangcun Liang, Jiong Xie, Hua Li, Jun Wang, Guiyun Zhu, Erpeng Tian and 4 more

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14 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hongbin ZhangDepartment of Oncology, Hebei Chest Hospital, Research Center of Hebei Lung Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050041, P.R. China.
Yuan WangDepartment of Oncology, Hebei Chest Hospital, Research Center of Hebei Lung Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050041, P.R. China.
Qiaoxia JiDepartment of Oncology, Hebei Chest Hospital, Research Center of Hebei Lung Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050041, P.R. China.
Hongmei CaiDepartment of Oncology, Hebei Chest Hospital, Research Center of Hebei Lung Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050041, P.R. China.
Xiangcun LiangDepartment of Oncology, Hebei Chest Hospital, Research Center of Hebei Lung Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050041, P.R. China.
Jiong XieDepartment of Oncology, Hebei Chest Hospital, Research Center of Hebei Lung Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050041, P.R. China.
Hua LiDepartment of Oncology, Hebei Chest Hospital, Research Center of Hebei Lung Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050041, P.R. China.
Jun WangDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050011, P.R. China.
Guiyun ZhuDepartment of Pathology, Hebei Chest Hospital, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050041, P.R. China.
Erpeng TianMolecular Biology Laboratory, Hebei Chest Hospital, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050041, P.R. China.
Lingling ZhuDepartment of Oncology, Hebei Chest Hospital, Research Center of Hebei Lung Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050041, P.R. China.
Mingming YuanGeneplus-Beijing, Beijing 102206, P.R. China.
Rongrong ChenGeneplus-Beijing, Beijing 102206, P.R. China.
Min ZhaoDepartment of Oncology, Hebei Chest Hospital, Research Center of Hebei Lung Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050041, P.R. China.
Hospital of Hebei Province · CNHebei Medical University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tumor mutation burden (TMB) is an independent indicator used to select patients sensitive to immunotherapy. The present study aimed to investigate the clinicopathological and molecular characteristics of patients with hypermutant lung cancer to identify an economical, simple and complementary method for predicting TMB and immunotherapy responses. In total, 1,000 patients with lung cancer were randomly selected, and their samples were submitted to next-generation sequencing, with their TMB status reviewed. The threshold of hypermutation was set to 17.24 mutations (muts)/Mb. The proportion of smokers was higher in the hypermutant cohort (n=67) compared with in the non-hypermutant cohort (n=933; 85.1 vs. 46.6%; P<0.0001). Compared with in the non-hypermutant cohort, the proportion of squamous cell carcinoma cases and small cell lung cancer cases was higher in the hypermutant cohort (22.4 vs. 13.1% and 6.0 vs. 2.6%, respectively). In addition, compared with in the non-hypermutant cohort, mutations in the low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1B were more frequently observed in the hypermutant cohort (67.2 vs. 14.3%; P<0.0001). A similar trend was obtained for all genes tested, except for the EGFR gene. Furthermore, in the hypermutant cohort, the prevalence of microsatellite instability was extremely high (9.0%). The mutation frequency in DNA damage response (DDR) genes was notably higher in the hypermutant cohort, where several DDR-associated genes were enriched, compared with in the non-hypermutant cohort. The enrichment analysis revealed a strong association between mutations in Notch signaling and high TMB. To the best of our knowledge, the present study is the first to comprehensively investigate the clinical and genetic characteristics of patients with hypermutant lung cancer in a Chinese population. The results of the current study suggested that hypermutant lung cancer exerted distinctive clinical and genetic features, which may be used as complementary indicators for screening patients sensitive to immunotherapy.

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hypermutationimmunotherapylung cancernext-generation sequencingNotch signaling

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