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Current management of Ewing sarcoma in children and adolescents. Marie-Dominique Tabone 1 , Odile Oberlin 2 1 Unité d’hémato-oncologie pédiatrique, Hôpital A Trousseau, Paris, France 2 Service d’oncologie pédiatrique, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France. Introduction (1).
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Current management of Ewing sarcoma in children and adolescents Marie-Dominique Tabone1, Odile Oberlin2 1Unité d’hémato-oncologie pédiatrique, Hôpital A Trousseau, Paris, France 2Service d’oncologie pédiatrique, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
Introduction (1) • Second most common malignant bone tumor in children and young adults • Extraosseous Ewing sarcoma are not exceptional • Rare in black and asian populations • Lung, bone and/or bone marrow metastases at diagnosis in 20 to 30 % of patients
Introduction (2) From Campanacci et al, 785 cases-Bologna
Introduction (3) Ewing sarcoma histologic and immunohistochemical features • and (B) : Ewing’s sarcoma appears as sheets of monotonous round cells (Hematoxylin and eosin) • (C): Strong, diffuse membrane staining is observed with MIC2 (CD99) Bernstein, et al. Oncologist 2006
Introduction (4) The reciprocal translocation between chromosomes 11 and 22 results in the formation of an ews-fli1 fusion gene on the abnormal chromosome 22 that codes for a chimeric transcription factor Bernstein et al. Oncologist 2006
Current goals in management of Ewing sarcoma • Multimodal therapy improved survival from 10% in late 1960s to 65% today • Prognosis of patients with metastases and/or recurrent disease remains poor • Major goals nowadays include • Improvement of local and metastatic control • Better stratification of risk groups • New therapeutic strategies for high risk patients • Prevention of late effects
What did we learn in Ewing sarcoma from past protocols ? (1) «Saint Jude» Memphis ES 79 protocol Induction CT Local therapy Maintenance CT - Complete surgery RT = 0 - No surgery & good response RT = 35 Gy - No surgery & poor response RT = 50 Gy Actino x 6 VCR x 11 + Cyclo x 7 x 6 Adria x 1 Cyclo x 7d Adria x 1d week 1, 3, 5, 8, 11
What did we learn in Ewing sarcoma from past protocols ? (2) • ES 79 results: Hayes et al, 1989 • 50 evaluable patients, 17 relapsed (3 metastatic, 4 local + metastatic, 10 local) • Size of primary tumor was shown to be a prognostic factor: 82% 3-years DFS (< 8 cm) versus 64% (> 8 cm); 5-years DFS 66% • EW 88 french protocol: Oberlin et al, 2001 • Chemotherapy regimen = ES 79 • Intensified local treatment • 114 patients, 57% primary > 100 ml • 5-years OS 66%; 5-years DFS 58% • Histological response shown to be a pronostic factor
What did we learn in Ewing sarcoma from past protocols ? (3) Resections performed after chemotherapy allow to evaluate the histological response to induction chemotherapy • Huvos grading system : mean percentage of residual cells 11 %
EW 88: DFS according to histological response < 5 % (n = 61) 75 % 5 to 30 % (n = 14) 40 % > 30 % (n = 15) 20 % p < 0.0001 Mois
What did we learn in Ewing sarcoma from past protocols ? (4) • ES 87 protocol: Meyer et al, 1992 • Ifosfamide/etoposide as upfront window therapy • 26 patients, 4 CR, 21 PR; overall response rate 96% • EW 93/97 protocol • Is the prognosis of the intermediate group improved by addition of Ifosfamide/etoposide? • Is it possible to improve the survival of poor responders by HD chemotherapy as consolidation after surgery ? Busulfan (600 mg /m2) Melphalan (140 mg /m2) Stem cell transplant
What did we learn in Ewing sarcoma from past protocols ? (5) Historical comparison of outcome of poor responders localized patients (> 30 % cells) 41 patients 33 HD chemo 49 % EW 93 15 patients 20 % EW 88 HD chemo may improve the prognosis of these patients but this should be confirmed by a randomized trial
What did we learn in Ewing sarcoma from past protocols ? (6) < 100 ml (119) 72 % Surgery + Radiation therapy 60 % > 100 ml (160) 62 % < 100 ml (79) > 100 ml (28) 29 % Radiation therapy alone Local therapy as an impact on survival (EFS of EW 88 / 93 studies) : surgery has a significant impact on prognosis of large primaries
What did we learn in Ewing sarcoma from past protocols ? (7) Pooled French and German data In patients treated by chemotherapy alone, histological response is the single pronostic factor: volume has no added impact
Other prognostic indicators (1) • Review of St Jude studies: Rodriguez-Galindo et al, 2007 • In patients with localized disease • Age: 83% 5-years OS < 14 years versus 65% in patients older than 14 years • Type of local control: 5-years OS 65%, 77%, 92% respectively for RT alone, surgery alone and surgery + RT • In patients with metastatic disease, those with isolated lung metastases fared somewath better than those with extrapulmonary lesions (5-years OS 54% versus 27%)
Other prognostic indicators (2) • Schleiermacher et al, 2003 • 125 patients with localized disease • Detection of EWS-FLI-1 or EWS-ERG transcripts by TR-PCR in blood and/or BM is associated with an increased risk of systemic relapse • Type of fusion genes (Zoubeck et al, 1996; de Alava et al, 1998) and secondary structural chromosomal changes (Maurici et al, 1998; Zielenska et al, 2001; Hattingert et al, 2002)? • Pronostic impact of type of fusion genes not confirmed in EuroEwing patients
«EURO-EWING 99» Protocol (1) GPOH D UK F CH Europe-adultes POG
«EURO-EWING 99» Protocol (2) • Intensive induction chemotherapy : 6 VIDE cycles day 1day 2day 3 Vincristine 1.5 mg/m² x Ifosfamide 3 g/m²/d x x x Doxorubicin 20 mg/m²/d x x x Etoposide 150 mg/m²/d x x x • Safety assessment: Juergens et al, 2006 • 4746 courses in 851 patients • Major adverse reactions were myelosuppression and infections; 5 VIDE related death; 0.1 % GFR< 39ml/mn/1.73m2; 1.9 % tubular phosphate reabsorption rate < 0.8; 2.5 % LVSF < 28%
«EURO-EWING 99» Protocol (3) Risk groups for localized tumors Tumor resected after Unresected chemotherapy only Tumor < 10 % cells> 10 % cells < 200 ml> 200 ml StandardHigh risk grouprisk group
«EURO-EWING 99» Protocol (4) Treatment of localized tumors Induction chemo. Consolidation chemotherapy + R A D I O T H E R A P Y VAI x 7vs VAC x 7 + S U R G E R Y Good histo. response (< 10 % cells) Unresected small tumor (< 200 ml) VIDE x 6 VAI VAI x 7vs Bu-Mel Poor histo. response (> 10 % cells) Unresected large tumor (> 200 ml)
«EURO-EWING 99» Protocol (5) Treatment of isolated lung metastases (50 % of the metastatic patients) Comparison of efficacy and toxicity Comparison of efficacy and toxicity of 8cycles IVA + lung radiation therapy VIDE x 6 1 VAI + Busulfan-Melphalan
«EURO-EWING 99» Protocol (6) Treatment of metastases other than lung or pleura (R3 protocol) No initial agreement for these patients Patients were treated by 6 cycles of VIDE + Busulfan-Melphalan after good response to VIDE
«EURO-EWING 99» Protocol (7) Whole cohort : 192 pts R3 arm 29 % 25 % Patients who received Bu-Mel 102 pts Inclusion in this arm stoped in 2005 due to lack of significant improvement in survival 35 % 30 %
«EURO-EWING 99» Protocol (8) • Severe toxicities observed in patients that received spine or bowel radiotherapy and busulfan • Spine irradiation should be limited to 30 gray, and bowel irradiation should also be limited in dose and field • Conventional chemotherapy should be prefered to Bu-Mel if local treatment includes a large volume of the bowel irradiation
«EURO-EWING 99» Protocol (9) • Radiotherapy • Before surgery: to be discussed in case of poor clinical response after 2 VIDE • After surgery (30 to 54 grays) • In case of uncomplete resection • In case of poor histological response (> 10 % residual cells) • Costal tumor with pleural effusion and spine tumor • No surgery (54 to 64 grays)
AEWS 0031 : COG protocol (1) • Womer et al, ASCO 2008 • Could chemotherapy intensification through interval compression improve outcome ? • Randomized trial • Patients < 50 years • Extra dural localized Ewing sarcoma • 284 patients in each group
AEWS 0031 : COG protocol (2) • Toxicities and number of hospital days similar in both group
AEWS 0031 : COG protocol (3) • 3-Years EFS 65 % in regimen A; 76% in regimen B (p=0.028)
Overview of new therapeutic agents in Ewing sarcoma (1) • Conventional chemotherapy • Cyclophosphamide/topotecan: 2 CR+ 4 PR / 17 patients in phase II study (Saylors et al, 2001) • Temozolomide/irinotecan: 1 CR + 3 PR / 14 patients (Wagner et al, 2007) • Treosulfan (busulfan analogue)/melphalan: first results presented at Berlin SIOP 2008; relevance to be confirmed with longer follow-up and larger cohort of patients; results do not seem better than busulfan for patients with extra pulmonary metastatic disease
Overview of new therapeutic agents in Ewing sarcoma (2) • Alternate approaches • Mammalian target of rapamycin (m-TOR) inhibitors • m-TOR is a protein kinase that plays a pivotal role in the control of cell growth and development, and Ewing sarcoma pathobiology (Mateo-Lozano et al, 2003) • Rapamycin (sirolimus) and rapamycin analogues are currently being evaluated (MacKenzie et al, 2007; Mita et al, 2008) • IGFR-1 inhibitors • IGF1 is a direct target of Ewing sarcoma fusion proteins (Cironi et al, 2008) • In response to the stimulatory ligands IGF-1 and IGF-2, IGFR-1 signaling results in proliferative and antiapopototic effects (Ryan et al, 2008) • Several on-going phase I/II clinical trials evaluate various compounds (monoclonal antibodies or small molecules) that target IFGR-1
Overview of new therapeutic agents in Ewing sarcoma (3) • Anti VEGF receptors therapy • Angiogenesis is essential for the growth, progression and metastasis of solid tumors • VEGF have been detected at elevated levels in serum and/or urine of adults and children with cancer (Tabone et al) • In mouse model, blocking VEGFR- 2 reduce Ewing sarcoma growth and increase tumor cell apoptosis (Zhou et al, 2007) • Antisense oligonucleotides targeted against junction EWS-FLI-1 oncogen • Inhibition of tumor growth in nude mice by antisense oligonucleotides delivered intra tumorally by nanocapsules or nanospheres (Maksimenko et al, 2005) • Bisphosphonates, immunotherapy…
Management and prevention of late effects (1) • Orthopedic sequelae linked to surgery and/or radiation induced growth disturbances • Second malignancies • Radio induced bone sarcoma • Secondary leukemia • Anthracycline dose-related cardiomyopathy • Alkylating agents and/or radiation associated infertility • Renal tubular dysfonction caused by ifosfamide
Management and prevention of late effects (2) • Euro-Ewing 99 include for standard risk patients a randomized comparison of late toxicity of maintenance chemotherapy : 7 cycles VAC (more toxic for fertility) versus 7 cycles IVA (more toxic for kidney) • Sperm cryopreservation should be offered to postpubertal boys, ovarian transposition or cryopreservation in girl when appropriate • Abdominopelvic mesh compartmentalization (Haider et al, 2006) • Close monitoring of secondary malignancies incidence
Conclusions • Increased knowledge of underlying molecular basis of Ewing sarcoma • On-going clinical trials test novel therapies designed to thwart critical pathways responsible for this malignancy • We can hopefully expect that in the future, combined treatment including these targeted therapies will improve survival of high risk patients