Purpose: Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common type of primary malignant brain tumor and has a poor prognosis. Identifying novel targets and stratification strategies is urgently needed to improve patient survival. The present study aimed to identify clinically relevant genomic alterations in IDH-wildtype GBM using data from comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) assays performed nationwide in Japan.
Methods: The CGP assay results of 392 IDH-wildtype GBM cases performed between October 2019 and February 2023 obtained from the Center for Cancer Genomics and Advanced Therapeutics were retrospectively analyzed.
Results: The median patient age was 52.5 years, and 207 patients (53%) were male. In the 286 patients for whom survival information was available, a protein-tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor type 11 (PTPN11) variant detected in 20 patients (6.8%) was extracted as the gene associated with significantly shorter overall survival (p = 0.002). Multivariate analysis demonstrated that the PTPN11 variant and poor performance status were independent prognostic indicators. In contrast, no prognostic impact was observed in the cohort in The Cancer Genome Atlas data. The discrepancy in the prognostic impact of the PTPN11 variant from these two pools might have resulted from differences in the biases affecting the survival of patients who underwent a CGP assay, including left-truncation and right-censored bias. However, survival simulation done to adjust for these biases showed that the prognostic impact of the PTPN11 variant was also significant.
Conclusions: The PTPN11 variant was a negative prognostic indicator of IDH-wildtype GBM in the patient cohort with the CGP assay.
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