Affiliation:
1. The Comprehensive Cancer Center of Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University and Clinical Cancer Institute of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China;
Abstract
3046 Background: Recent genomic and bioinformatic technological advances have made it possible to dissect the immune response to personalized neoantigens encoded by tumor-specific mutations.However, rapid and efficient identification of neoantigens is still fraught with difficulty, and a systematic evaluation of personalized neoantigens based immunotherapy in advanced refractory epithelial tumors is lacking. Methods: Tumor and ctDNA samples from 16 advanced epithelial cancer patients were underwent mutational profiling by cancer-associated genes panel. Neoantigens identification were performed by two strategies: As classic mode, somatic mutations were subjected to in silico analysis to predict potential high-affinity epitopes and mutated peptides were denovo synthesized; Hotspot mutations were matched to our customized driver mutation-derived neoantigens peptide library. Candidate neoepitopes were identified. Approximately 108 neoantigen loaded DC vaccine and 1010 bulk T cells composed of 109 neoantigen reactive CD8+T cells were generated for personlized immunotherapy. Results: Among the sequenced patients, 3 of 4 patients who utilized the classic mode and 6 of 12 patients who performed customized neoantigens library have successfully identified 1~2 neoantigens recognized by autologous T cells, respectively. Subsequently, a total number of 6 patients received immunotherapy targeting personalized neoantigen. To date, one patient with metastatic thymoma is achieving a complete and durable response beyond 9 months. In addition, immune related partial response was observed in another advanced pancreatic cancer patient. The remaining 4 patients achieved prolonged stabilization of disease with median PFS of 8.6 months. Conclusions: Our costomized neoantigens library can provide a novel approach for neoantigens screening in advanced epithelial cancer patients. Besides, targeted sequencing is sufficient for somatic variant and neoantigen identification. The combination of two strategies can accelerate the neoantigen-based translational immunotherapy research into the paradigm of precision medicine.
Publisher
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)