Temozolomide and Radiotherapy versus Radiotherapy Alone in Patients with Glioblastoma, IDH-wildtype: Post Hoc Analysis of the EORTC Randomized Phase III CATNON Trial.
(2022) Clinical cancer research — Vol. 28, n° 12, p. 2527-2535 (2022)
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Tesileanu, C Mircea S 
Sanson, Marc Wick, Wolfgang van den Bent, Martin J
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- (en) PURPOSE: In a post hoc analysis of the CATNON trial (NCT00626990), we explored whether adding temozolomide to radiotherapy improves outcome in patients with IDH1/2 wildtype (wt) anaplastic astrocytomas with molecular features of glioblastoma [redesignated as glioblastoma, isocitrate dehydrogenase-wildtype (IDH-wt) in the 2021 World Health Organization (WHO) classification of central nervous system tumors]. PATIENTS AND METHODS: From the randomized phase III CATNON study examining the addition of adjuvant and concurrent temozolomide to radiotherapy in anaplastic astrocytomas, we selected a subgroup of IDH1/2wt and H3F3Awt tumors with presence of TERT promoter mutations and/or EGFR amplifications and/or combined gain of chromosome 7 and loss of chromosome 10. Molecular abnormalities including MGMT promoter methylation status were determined by next-generation sequencing, DNA methylation profiling, and SNaPshot analysis. RESULTS: Of the 751 patients entered in the CATNON study, 670 had fully molecularly characterized tumors. A total of 159 of these tumors met the WHO 2021 molecular criteria for glioblastoma, IDH-wt. Of these patients, 47 received radiotherapy only and 112 received a combination of radiotherapy and temozolomide. There was no added effect of temozolomide on either overall survival [HR, 1.19; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.82-1.71] or progression-free survival (HR, 0.87; 95% CI, 0.61-1.24). MGMT promoter methylation was prognostic for overall survival, but was not predictive for outcome to temozolomide treatment either with respect to overall survival or progression-free survival. CONCLUSIONS: In this cohort of patients with glioblastoma, IDH-wt temozolomide treatment did not add benefit beyond that observed from radiotherapy, regardless of MGMT promoter status. These findings require a new well-powered prospective clinical study to explore the efficacy of temozolomide treatment in this patient population.
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Tesileanu, C. M. S., Sanson, M., Wick, W., Brandes, A. A., Clement, P. M., Erridge, S. C., Vogelbaum, M. A., Nowak, A. K., Baurain, J.-F., Mason, W. P., Wheeler, H., Chinot, O. L., Gill, S., Griffin, M., Rogers, L., Taal, W., Rudà, R., Weller, M., McBain, C., et al. (2022). Temozolomide and Radiotherapy versus Radiotherapy Alone in Patients with Glioblastoma, IDH-wildtype: Post Hoc Analysis of the EORTC Randomized Phase III CATNON Trial. Clinical cancer research, 28(12), 2527-2535. https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-21-4283 (Original work published 2022)