Data from LRP1b Loss Predicts Sensitivity to Immunotherapy in Patients with NSCLC: An Analysis of the Phase III CheckMate-026 Randomized Trial
Year: 2025
Type: other
Abstract: Purpose: Low-density lipoprotein receptor–related protein 1b (LRP1b) is a cell surface receptor, commonly altered in many cancers and associated with improved responses, progression-free survival (PFS), and overall survival with immune checkpoint inhibition. Experimental Design: LRP1b alterations were determined by whole-exome sequencing and associated with PFS and objective response rates in patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in a post hoc analysis of the randomized controlled phase III CheckMate-026 (CM026) trial (NCT02041533) examining chemotherapy compared with nivolumab, adjusting for tumor mutational burden (TMB) and clinical features. We separately evaluated a deidentified nationwide (US-based) NSCLC clinico-genomic database for associations of LRP1b alterations and PFS with anti–PD-1 immunotherapy. Results: In the clinico-genomic database cohort of patients with NSCLC (N = 18,369), LRP1b mutations were positively associated with TP53/KRAS alterations and inversely with EGFR/RET/MET/ERBB2 alterations and significantly improved PFS with PD-1 inhibition (n = 1,569; adjusted HR, 0.86; P = 0.014). In CheckMate-026, patients with LRP1b alterations had a statistically significant improvement in objective response rate to nivolumab versus LRP1b wild-type patients (OR 3.5; 95% confidence interval, 1.71–7.13; P = 0.0006) but not with chemotherapy (OR 0.63; 95% confidence interval, 0.32–1.26; P = 0.19), adjusting for TMB, age, gender, histology, smoking, and performance status. LRP1b mutations were associated with improved PFS with nivolumab (HR, 0.66; P = 0.04) but not chemotherapy (HR, 1.26; P = 0.25), also maintained in multivariate and TMB-adjusted analyses. Conclusions: LRP1b mutations are a candidate predictive biomarker for immune checkpoint inhibition versus chemotherapy in NSCLC. Further mechanistic characterization of LRP1b and prospective validation are warranted and might enable future clinical use.
Language: English
Subfield: Oncology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4417315101