Application of a risk-management framework for integration of stromal tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in clinical trials

Jan Hudecek; Leonie Voorwerk; Maartje van Seijen; Iris Nederlof; Michiel de Maaker; Jose van den Berg; Koen K. van de Vijver; Karolina Sikorska; Sylvia Adams; Sandra Demaria; Giuseppe Viale; Torsten O. Nielsen; Sunil S. Badve; Stefan Michiels; William Fraser Symmans; Christos Sotiriou; David L. Rimm; Stephen M. Hewitt; Carsten Denkert; Sibylle Loibl; Sherene Loi; John M.S. Bartlett; Giancarlo Pruneri; Deborah A. Dillon; Maggie C.U. Cheang; Andrew Tutt; Jacqueline A. Hall; Zuzana Kos; Roberto Salgado; Marleen Kok; Hugo M. Horlings; Aini Hyytiäinen; Akira I. Hida; Alastair Thompson; Alex Lefevre; Alexander J. Lazar; Allen Gown; Amy Lo; Anna Sapino; Anant Madabhushi; Andre Moreira; Andrea Richardson; Andrea Vingiani; Andrew H. Beck; Andrew M. Bellizzi; Angel Guerrero; Anita Grigoriadis; Anna Ehinger; Ana Garrido-Castro; Anne Vincent-Salomon; International Immuno-Oncology Biomarker Working Group; Loes Kooreman

doi:10.1038/s41523-020-0155-1

Application of a risk-management framework for integration of stromal tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in clinical trials

Jan Hudecek, Leonie Voorwerk, Maartje van Seijen, Iris Nederlof, Michiel de Maaker, Jose van den Berg, Koen K. van de Vijver, Karolina Sikorska, Sylvia Adams, Sandra Demaria, Giuseppe Viale, Torsten O. Nielsen, Sunil S. Badve, Stefan Michiels, William Fraser Symmans, Christos Sotiriou, David L. Rimm, Stephen M. Hewitt, Carsten Denkert, Sibylle LoiblSherene Loi, John M.S. Bartlett, Giancarlo Pruneri, Deborah A. Dillon, Maggie C.U. Cheang, Andrew Tutt, Jacqueline A. Hall, Zuzana Kos, Roberto Salgado^*, Marleen Kok, Hugo M. Horlings, Aini Hyytiäinen, Akira I. Hida, Alastair Thompson, Alex Lefevre, Alexander J. Lazar, Allen Gown, Amy Lo, Anna Sapino, Anant Madabhushi, Andre Moreira, Andrea Richardson, Andrea Vingiani, Andrew H. Beck, Andrew M. Bellizzi, Angel Guerrero, Anita Grigoriadis, Anna Ehinger, Ana Garrido-Castro, Anne Vincent-Salomon, International Immuno-Oncology Biomarker Working Group, Loes Kooreman

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Abstract

Stromal tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (sTILs) are a potential predictive biomarker for immunotherapy response in metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). To incorporate sTILs into clinical trials and diagnostics, reliable assessment is essential. In this review, we propose a new concept, namely the implementation of a risk-management framework that enables the use of sTILs as a stratification factor in clinical trials. We present the design of a biomarker risk-mitigation workflow that can be applied to any biomarker incorporation in clinical trials. We demonstrate the implementation of this concept using sTILs as an integral biomarker in a single-center phase II immunotherapy trial for metastatic TNBC (TONIC trial, NCT02499367), using this workflow to mitigate risks of suboptimal inclusion of sTILs in this specific trial. In this review, we demonstrate that a web-based scoring platform can mitigate potential risk factors when including sTILs in clinical trials, and we argue that this framework can be applied for any future biomarker-driven clinical trial setting.

Original language	English
Article number	15
Number of pages	8
Journal	npj Breast Cancer
Volume	6
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41523-020-0155-1
Publication status	Published - 12 May 2020

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Hudecek, J., Voorwerk, L., van Seijen, M., Nederlof, I., de Maaker, M., van den Berg, J., van de Vijver, K. K., Sikorska, K., Adams, S., Demaria, S., Viale, G., Nielsen, T. O., Badve, S. S., Michiels, S., Symmans, W. F., Sotiriou, C., Rimm, D. L., Hewitt, S. M., Denkert, C., ... Kooreman, L. (2020). Application of a risk-management framework for integration of stromal tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in clinical trials. npj Breast Cancer, 6(1), Article 15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41523-020-0155-1

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