Patterns of Resistance Differ in Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia Treated with Type I versus Type II FLT3 Inhibitors

Ahmad S. Alotaibi, Musa Yilmaz, Rashmi Kanagal-Shamanna, Sanam Loghavi, Tapan M. Kadia, Courtney D. DiNardo, Gautam Borthakur, Marina Konopleva, Sherry A. Pierce, Sa A. Wang, Guilin Tang, Veronica Guerra, Bachar Samra, Naveen Pemmaraju, Elias Jabbour, Nicholas J. Short, Ghayas C. Issa, Maro Ohanian, Guillermo Garcia-Manero, Kapil N. BhallaKeyur P. Patel, Koichi Takahashi, Michael Andreeff, Jorge E. Cortes, Hagop M. Kantarjian, Farhad Ravandi, Naval Daver

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Abstract

Despite promising results with FLT3 inhibitors (FLT3i), response durations remain short. We studied pretreatment and relapse bone marrow samples from patients with FLT3-mutated acute myeloid leukemia (AML) treated with FLT3i-based therapies (secondary resistance cohort), and pretreatment bone marrow samples from patients with no response to FLT3ibased therapies (primary resistance cohort). Targeted next-generation sequencing (NGS) at relapse identified emergent mutations involving on-target FLT3, epigenetic modifiers, RAS/MAPK pathway, and less frequently WT1 and TP53. RAS/MAPK and FLT3-D835 mutations emerged most commonly following type I and II FLT3i-based therapies, respectively. Patients with emergent mutations at relapse had inferior overall survival compared with those without emergent mutations. Among pretreatment RAS-mutated patients, pretreatment cohort-level variant allelic frequencies for RAS were higher in nonresponders, particularly with type I FLT3i-based therapies, suggesting a potential role in primary resistance as well. These data demonstrate distinct pathways of resistance in FLT3-mutated AML treated with type I versus II FLT3i.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)125-134
Number of pages10
JournalBlood cancer discovery
Volume2
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1 2021

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Medicine

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