Mutational patterns in chemotherapy resistant muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

Nat Commun
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Abstract

Despite continued widespread use, the genomic effects of cisplatin-based chemotherapy and implications for subsequent treatment are incompletely characterized. Here, we analyze whole exome sequencing of matched pre- and post-neoadjuvant cisplatin-based chemotherapy primary bladder tumor samples from 30 muscle-invasive bladder cancer patients. We observe no overall increase in tumor mutational burden post-chemotherapy, though a significant proportion of subclonal mutations are unique to the matched pre- or post-treatment tumor, suggesting chemotherapy-induced and/or spatial heterogeneity. We subsequently identify and validate a novel mutational signature in post-treatment tumors consistent with known characteristics of cisplatin damage and repair. We find that post-treatment tumor heterogeneity predicts worse overall survival, and further observe alterations in cell-cycle and immune checkpoint regulation genes in post-treatment tumors. These results provide insight into the clinical and genomic dynamics of tumor evolution with cisplatin-based chemotherapy, suggest mechanisms of clinical resistance, and inform development of clinically relevant biomarkers and trials of combination therapies.

Year of Publication
2017
Journal
Nat Commun
Volume
8
Issue
1
Pages
2193
Date Published
2017 12 19
ISSN
2041-1723
DOI
10.1038/s41467-017-02320-7
PubMed ID
29259186
PubMed Central ID
PMC5736752
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K08 CA188615 / CA / NCI NIH HHS / United States
P30 CA006927 / CA / NCI NIH HHS / United States
P30 CA008748 / CA / NCI NIH HHS / United States
UL1 TR001102 / TR / NCATS NIH HHS / United States