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- the present invention relates to the design of a customized therapy for a subject with breast cancer, wherein the customized therapy is selected based on the c-MAF expression level, copy number, amplification, gain, or translocation and the menopausal status of the subject.
- the customized therapy comprises an agent for avoiding or preventing bone remodelling.
- the agent for avoiding or preventing bone remodelling is zoledronic acid.
- breast cancer is the second most common type of cancer worldwide (10.4%; after lung cancer) and the fifth most common cause of death by cancer (after lung cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, and colon cancer).
- breast cancer is the most common cause of death by cancer.
- breast cancer caused 502,000 deaths worldwide (7% of the deaths by cancer; almost 1% of all deaths).
- the number of cases worldwide has increased significantly from the 1970s, a phenomenon which is partly due to the modern lifestyle in the western world.
- TX The primary tumor cannot be assessed. T0: there is no evidence of tumor. Tis: in situ carcinoma, no invasion. T1: The tumor is 2 cm or less. T2: The tumor is more than 2 cm but less than 5 cm. T3: The tumor is more than 5 cm. T4: Tumor of any size growing in the wall of the breast or skin, or inflammatory breast cancer.
- NX The nearby lymph nodes cannot be assessed.
- N0 The cancer has not spread to the regional lymph nodes.
- N1 The cancer has spread to 1 to 3 axillary lymph nodes or to one internal mammary lymph node.
- N2 The cancer has spread to 4 to 9 axillary lymph nodes or to multiple internal mammary lymph nodes.
- N3 One of the followings applies:
- the cancer has spread to 10 or more axillary lymph nodes, or the cancer has spread to the infraclavicular lymph nodes, or the cancer has spread to the supraclavicular lymph nodes or the cancer affects the axillary lymph nodes and has spread to the internal mammary lymph nodes, or the cancer affects 4 or more axillary lymph nodes and minimum amounts of cancer are in the internal mammary nodes or in sentinel lymph node biopsy.
- MX The presence of distant spread (metastasis) cannot be assessed. M0: There is no distant spread. M1: spreading to distant organs which do not include the supraclavicular lymph node has been produced.
- ER estrogen receptor
- PR progesterone receptor
- HER2/neu HER2/neu
- Unsupervised gene expression array profiling has provided biological evidence for the heterogeneity of breast cancer through the identification of intrinsic subtypes such as luminal A, luminal B, HER2+/ER ⁇ and the basal-like subtype.
- Triple-negative cancers are defined as tumors that do not express the genes for estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) nor HER2. This subgroup accounts for 15% of all types of breast cancer and for a higher percentage of breast cancer arising in African and African-American women who are premenopausal. Triple negative breast cancers have a relapse pattern that is very different from Estrogen Receptor positive breast cancers: the risk of relapse is much higher for the first 3-5 years but drops sharply and substantially below that of Estrogen Receptor positive breast cancers after that.
- Basal-like subtype is characterized by low expression of both the ER and HER2 clusters of genes, so is typically ER-negative, PR-negative, and HER2-negative on clinical testing; for this reason, it is often referred to as “triple-negative” breast cancer (Breast Cancer Research 2007, 9(Suppl 1):S13). Basal-like cancers express genes usually found in “basal”/myoepithelial cells of the normal breast including high molecular weight cytokeratins (5/6, 14 and 17), P-cadherin, caveolins 1 and 2, nestin, aB crystalline and epidermal growth factor receptor (Reis-Fiho J. et al.).
- basal-like breast cancers Given that there is no internationally accepted definition for basal-like breast cancers, it is not surprising that there has been a great deal of confusion as to whether triple negative and basal-like breast cancers are synonymous. Although several groups have used these terms interchangeably, it should be noted that not all basal-like cancers lack ER, PR and HER2 and not all triple negative cancers display a basal-like phenotype. The vast majority of triple negative cancers are of basal-like phenotype. Likewise, the vast majority of tumors expressing ‘basal’ markers are triple negative. It should be noted, however, that there is a significant number of triple negative cancers that do not express basal markers and a small, but still significant, subgroup of basal-like cancers that express either hormone receptors or HER2.
- the keystone for treating breast cancer is surgery when the tumor is localized with possible adjuvant hormone therapy (with tamoxifen or an aromatase inhibitor), chemotherapy, and/or radiotherapy.
- adjuvant hormone therapy with tamoxifen or an aromatase inhibitor
- chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy.
- adjuvant therapy the suggestions for treatment after the surgery (adjuvant therapy) follow a pattern. This pattern is subject to change because every two years a world conference takes place in St. Gallen, Switzerland to discuss the actual results of the worldwide multi-center studies. Likewise, said pattern is also reviewed according to the consensus criterion of the National Institute of Health (NIH). Based on in these criteria, more than 85-90% of the patients not having metastasis in lymph nodes would be candidates to receive adjuvant systemic therapy.
- NASH National Institute of Health
- PCR assays such as Oncotype DX or microarray assays such as MammaPrint can predict the risk of breast cancer relapse based on the expression of specific genes.
- the MammaPrint assay became the first breast cancer indicator in achieving official authorization from the Food and Drug Administration.
- Patent application EP1961825-A1 describes a method for predicting the occurrence of breast cancer metastasis to bone, lung, liver or brain, which comprises determining in a tumor tissue sample the expression level of one or more markers with respect to their corresponding expression level in a control sample, among which include c-MAF.
- a tumor tissue sample the expression level of one or more markers with respect to their corresponding expression level in a control sample, among which include c-MAF.
- this document requires determining several genes simultaneously to enable determining the survival of breast cancer patients and the correlation between the capacities of the gene signature for predicting the survivability free from bone metastasis was not statistically significant.
- Patent publication U.S. Publ. No. 2011/0150979 describes a method for predicting a prognosis of a basal like breast cancer comprising detecting the level of FOXC1.
- Patent publication U.S. Publ. No. 2010/0210738 relates to a method for prognosing cancer in a subject with triple negative breast cancer comprising detecting in a sample the expression levels of a series of genes which are randomly up-regulated or down-regulated.
- Patent publication U.S. Publ. No. 2011/0130296 relates to the identification of marker genes useful in the diagnosis and prognosis of triple negative breast cancer.
- the present invention relates to an in vitro method for designing a customized therapy for a subject having breast cancer which comprises: i) quantifying the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a sample of said subject and ii) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain obtained in i) with a reference value, wherein if the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain is not increased with respect to said reference value, then said subject is susceptible to receive a therapy aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling, improve disease free survival or overall survival.
- the subject is non-postmenopausal. In other embodiments, the subject is postmenopausal.
- the present invention relates to an in vitro method for designing a customized therapy for a non-postmenopausal subject having breast cancer which comprises: i) quantifying the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a sample of said subject and ii) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain obtained in i) with a reference value, wherein if the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain is increased with respect to said reference value, then said subject is not susceptible to receive a therapy aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling, improve disease free survival or overall survival.
- the present invention relates to an in vitro method for designing a customized therapy for a postmenopausal subject having breast cancer which comprises: i) quantifying the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a sample of said subject and ii) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain obtained in i) with a reference value, wherein if the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain is increased with respect to said reference value, then said subject is susceptible to receive a therapy aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling, improve disease free survival or overall survival.
- the subject is administered a therapy aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling, improve disease free survival or overall survival. In other embodiments, the subject is not administered a therapy aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling, improve disease free survival or overall survival.
- the therapy aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodelling or improve disease free survival or overall survival is an agent intended to prevent or inhibit bone degradation, improve disease free survival or overall survival is selected from the group consisting of: a bisphosphonate, a RANKL inhibitor, PTH, a PTHLH inhibitor (including neutralizing antibodies and peptides), a PRG analog, strontium ranelate, a DKK-1 inhibitor, a dual MET and VEGFR2 inhibitor, an estrogen receptor modulator, calcitonin, Radium-223, a CCR5 antagonist, a Src kinase inhibitor, a COX-2 inhibitor, an mTor inhibitor, and a cathepsin K inhibitor.
- a bisphosphonate a RANKL inhibitor, PTH, a PTHLH inhibitor (including neutralizing antibodies and peptides), a PRG analog, strontium ranelate, a DKK-1 inhibitor, a dual MET and VEGFR2 inhibitor, an estrogen receptor modulator, calcit
- the RANKL inhibitor is selected from the group consisting of: a RANKL specific antibody, a RANKL-specific nanobody, and osteoprotegerin.
- the RANKL specific antibody is denosumab.
- the bisphosphonate is zoledronic acid.
- the RANKL specific nanobody is ALX-0141.
- the dual MET and VEGFR2 inhibitor is Cabozantinib.
- the quantification of the c-MAF gene expression level comprises quantifying the messenger RNA (mRNA) of said gene, or a fragment of said mRNA, the complementary DNA (cDNA) of said gene, or a fragment of said cDNA or quantifying the levels of protein encoded by said gene.
- the expression level, copy number, amplification or gain is quantified by means of a quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) or a DNA or RNA array or nucleotide hybridization technique.
- the level of protein is quantified by means of western blot, ELISA, immunohistochemistry or a protein array.
- the level of protein is quantified using an antibody comprising a heavy chain CDR1 of SEQ ID NO: 21, and/or a heavy chain CDR2 of SEQ ID NO: 22, and/or a heavy chain CDR3 of SEQ ID NO: 23; and/or comprising a light chain CDR1 of SEQ ID NO: 18, and/or a light chain CDR2 of SEQ ID NO: 19 and/or a light chain CDR3 of SEQ ID NO: 20
- the amplification or gain of the c-MAF gene is determined by means of using a c-MAF gene-specific probe.
- the c-MAF gene-specific probe is Vysis LSI/IGH MAF Dual Color Dual Fusion Probe.
- the amplification or gain is determined by means of in situ hybridization or PCR.
- the reference value is that of a tumor tissue sample of breast cancer from a subject who has not suffered metastasis.
- the present invention relates to a method for the treatment of bone metastasis in a subject having breast cancer and having not increased c-MAF expression levels in a metastatic tumor sample with respect to a control sample comprising adminstering an agent capable of preventing or inhibiting bone remodelling, or improving disease free survival or overall survival wherein the agent capable of avoiding or preventing bone remodeling or improving disease free survival or overall survival is selected from the group consisting of: a bisphosphonate, a RANKL inhibitor, PTH, PTHLH inhibitor (including neutralizing antibodies and peptides), a PRG analog, strontium ranelate, a DKK-1 inhibitor, a dual MET and VEGFR2 inhibitor, an estrogen receptor modulator, an EGFR inhibitor, calcitonin, Radium-223, a CCR5 antagonist, a Src kinase inhibitor, a COX-2 inhibitor, an mTor inhibitor, and a cathepsin K inhibitor.
- a bisphosphonate a RANKL inhibitor,
- the subject is non-postmenopausal. In other embodiments, the subject is postmenopausal.
- the present invention relates to a method for the treatment of bone metastasis in a postmenopausal subject having breast cancer and having increased c-MAF expression levels in a metastatic tumor sample with respect to a control sample comprising adminstering an agent capable of preventing or inhibiting bone remodelling, or improving disease free survival or overall survival wherein the agent capable of avoiding or preventing bone remodelling is selected from the group consisting of: a bisphosphonate, a RANKL inhibitor, PTH, PTHLH inhibitor (including neutralizing antibodies and peptides), a PRG analog, strontium ranelate, a DKK-1 inhibitor, a dual MET and VEGFR2 inhibitor, an estrogen receptor modulator, an EGFR inhibitor, calcitonin, Radium-223, a CCR5 antagonist, a Src kinase inhibitor, a COX-2 inhibitor, an mTor inhibitor, and a cathepsin K inhibitor.
- a bisphosphonate a RANKL inhibitor, PTH
- the RANKL inhibitor is selected from the group of: a RANKL specific antibody, a RANKL specific nanobody, and osteoprotegerin.
- the RANKL specific antibody is denosumab.
- the bisphosphonate is zoledronic acid.
- the RANKL specific nanobody is ALX-9141.
- the dual MET and VEGFR2 inhibitor is Cabozantinib.
- the present invention relates to a method of classifying a subject suffering from breast cancer into a cohort, comprising: a) determining the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain of c-MAF in a breast tumor sample of said subject; b) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain of c-MAF in said sample to a predetermined reference level of c-MAF expression; and c) classifying said subject into a cohort based on said expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain of c-MAF in the sample and the status of the subject as post-menopausal or non-post-menopausal.
- the subjects are administered different treatments based on their c-MAF expression levels and/or their post-menopausal or non-post-menopausal status.
- the quantification of the c-MAF expression level comprises quantifying the messenger RNA (mRNA) of said gene, or a fragment of said mRNA, the complementary DNA (cDNA) of said gene, or a fragment of said cDNA or quantifying the levels of protein encoded by said gene.
- mRNA messenger RNA
- cDNA complementary DNA
- the level of protein is quantified using an antibody comprising a heavy chain CDR1 of SEQ ID NO: 21, and/or a heavy chain CDR2 of SEQ ID NO: 22, and/or a heavy chain CDR3 of SEQ ID NO: 23; and/or comprising a light chain CDR1 of SEQ ID NO: 18, and/or a light chain CDR2 of SEQ ID NO: 19 and/or a light chain CDR3 of SEQ ID NO: 20
- the amplification is determined by means of in situ hybridization or PCR.
- the in situ hybridization is fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), chromogenic in situ hybridization (CISH) or silver in situ hybridization (SISH).
- the in situ hybridization is fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH).
- the copy number of c-MAF as measured using FISH is ⁇ 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9 or 3.0.
- the copy number of c-MAF as measured using FISH is ⁇ 2.2.
- the copy number of c-MAF as measured using FISH is ⁇ 2.3.
- the copy number of c-MAF as measured using FISH is ⁇ 2.4.
- the copy number of c-MAF as measured using FISH is ⁇ 2.5.
- the copy number of c-MAF as measured using FISH is ⁇ 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9 or 3.0.
- the present invention relates to an in vitro method for predicting the IDFS of a patient with breast cancer which comprises i) quantifying the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain of the c-MAF gene in a sample of said subject and ii) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain 1 obtained in step i) with a reference value, wherein increased expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain of said gene with respect to said reference value is indicative of a poor IDFS.
- the present invention relates to an in vitro method for predicting IDFS of a patient with breast cancer which comprises determining the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a sample of said subject relative to a reference wherein an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to said reference is indicative of a poor IDFS.
- the present invention relates to an in vitro method for predicting IDFS excluding bone recurrence of a patient with breast cancer which comprises determining the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a sample of said subject relative to a reference wherein an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to said reference is indicative of poor IDFS excluding bone recurrence.
- the agent capable of preventing or inhibiting bone remodelling is an agent capable of preventing or inhibiting bone degradation
- the quantification of the c-MAF expression level comprises quantifying the messenger RNA (mRNA) of said gene, or a fragment of said mRNA, the complementary DNA (cDNA) of said gene, or a fragment of said cDNA or quantifying the levels of protein encoded by said gene.
- mRNA messenger RNA
- cDNA complementary DNA
- the level of protein is quantified using an antibody comprising a heavy chain CDR1 of SEQ ID NO: 21, and/or a heavy chain CDR2 of SEQ ID NO: 22, and/or a heavy chain CDR3 of SEQ ID NO: 23; and/or comprising a light chain CDR1 of SEQ ID NO: 18, and/or a light chain CDR2 of SEQ ID NO: 19 and/or a light chain CDR3 of SEQ ID NO: 20.
- the amplification is determined by means of in situ hybridization or PCR.
- the in situ hybridization is fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), chromogenic in situ hybridization (CISH) or silver in situ hybridization (SISH).
- the in situ hybridization is fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH).
- the copy number of c-MAF as measured using FISH is ⁇ 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9 or 3.0. In certain embodiments, the copy number of c-MAF as measured using FISH is ⁇ 2.2. In other embodiments, the copy number of c-MAF as measured using FISH is ⁇ 2.3. In further embodiments, the copy number of c-MAF as measured using FISH is ⁇ 2.4. In still further embodiments, the copy number of c-MAF as measured using FISH is ⁇ 2.5. In some embodiments, the copy number is determined as the average copy number per cell.
- the breast cancer is ER+ breast cancer. In particular embodiments, the breast cancer is ER ⁇ breast cancer. In other embodiments, the breast cancer is triple negative breast cancer. In different embodiments, the breast cancer is of the basal-like subtype. In some embodiments, the breast cancer is HER2+ breast cancer.
- the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain of the c-MAF gene is determined by means of determining the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain of the locus 16q23 or 16q22-q24.
- the treatment is an mTOR inhibitor or a CDK4/6 inhibitor. In other embodiments, the treatment is hormonal therapy extended beyond the standard of care.
- the invention relates to a method for the treatment of a subject having breast cancer and having increased c-MAF expression levels, copy number, amplification, or gain in a metastatic tumor sample with respect to a control sample comprising adminstering an mTOR inhibitor or a CDK4/6 inhibitor. In some embodiments, the invention relates to a method for the treatment of a subject having breast cancer and having increased c-MAF expression levels, copy number, amplification, or gain in a metastatic tumor sample with respect to a control sample comprising adminstering hormonal therapy extended beyond the standard of care.
- the invention relates to a method for the treatment of a subject having breast cancer and having not increased c-MAF expression levels, copy number, amplification, or gain in a metastatic tumor sample with respect to a control sample comprising not adminstering an mTOR inhibitor or a CDK4/6 inhibitor. In some embodiments, the invention relates to a method for the treatment of a subject having breast cancer and having not increased c-MAF expression levels, copy number, amplification, or gain in a metastatic tumor sample with respect to a control sample comprising not adminstering hormonal therapy extended beyond the standard of care.
- the present invention relates to a method for predicting the disease free survival status of a patient comprising measuring the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference sample level, and using the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain to predict the overall survival of the patient.
- an increase in the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference sample level is predictive of a shorter disease free survival than a patient without an increase in the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference sample level.
- the present invention relates to a method for predicting the overall survival status of a patient comprising measuring the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference sample level, and using the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain to predict the overall survival of the patient.
- an increase in the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference sample level is predictive of a shorter overall survival than a patient without an increase in the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference sample level.
- the menopausal status of the patient is also used to predict the survival status of the patient.
- the subject is non-postmenopausal. In certain embodiments, the subject is premenopausal. In particular embodiments, the subject is postmenopausal.
- FIG. 1 Overview of the assay parameters.
- FIG. 2 AZURE study design.
- FIG. 3 H&E analysis of AZURE samples. Evaluable and non-evaluable samples are indicated.
- FIG. 4 A and FIG. 4 B MAF positivity rate.
- FIG. 5 MAF cut-off optimized FISH data.
- a sharp spike on the cutpoint graph indicates that the MAF FISH value truly is a threshold event. Additionally, the predefined cut-off is close to the optimized cut-off.
- FIG. 6 Risk of bone recurrence based on MAF FISH value.
- FIG. 7 Time to bone recurrence by MAF FISH value using a bone-optimized cutoff of 2.3.
- FIG. 8 Percent IDFS by FISH. An optimum cutoff of 2.2 was used.
- FIG. 9 Overall survival by FISH. An optimum cutoff of 2.2 was used.
- FIG. 10 Time to bone recurrence by FISH in AZURE control patients only. A bone-optimized cutoff of 2.3 was used.
- FIG. 11 IDFS by FISH in AZURE control patients only. An optimized cutoff of 2.2 was used.
- FIG. 12 Time to IDFS (excluding bone recurrence) by FISH in AZURE control patients only. An optimized cutoff of 2.2 was used.
- FIG. 13 A and FIG. 13 B Time to bone metastasis in patients in the control arm and in the zoledronic acid treatment arm. Cumulative incidence of bone metastasis ( FIG. 13 A ) as a first event and ( FIG. 13 B ) at any time during follow-up. Analyses were by intention to treat. HR-hazard ratio.
- FIG. 14 Evaluation of the time to bone metastasis as a first event in AZURE control patients and zoledronic acid treated patients. A bone-optimized cutoff of 2.3 was used.
- FIG. 15 A and FIG. 15 B Disease (DFS) and invasive disease (IDFS) free survival between the control arm and the zoledronic acid treated patients.
- DFS Disease
- IDFS invasive disease free survival between the control arm and the zoledronic acid treated patients.
- Kaplan-Meier curves of ( FIG. 15 A ) disease-free-survival and ( FIG. 15 B ) invasive disease-free survival. Analyses were by intention to treat. HR hazard ratio.
- FIG. 16 Time to distant recurrence between the control arm and the zoledronic acid treated patients.
- FIG. 17 Time to a bone metastatic event (anytime) according to treatment. Death as a competing event is used in time to bone metastasis (anytime).
- FIG. 18 Time to a bone metastatic event (anytime) according to MAF copy number (according to pre-specified MAF cut off of 2.5).
- FIG. 19 A and FIG. 19 B IDFS by menopausal status of the AZURE trial. Kaplan-Meir curve of invasive disease-free survival by menopausal status.
- FIG. 19 A premenopause, perimenopause, and unknown menopausal status and
- FIG. 19 B more than 5 years since menopause.
- Test of heterogeneity by menopausal status ⁇ 2 4.71; p 0.03.
- FIG. 20 Time to a bone metastatic event (anytime) according to MAF copy number (data according to a pre-specified cut off of 2.5) in post menopausal patients.
- FIG. 21 Time to a bone metastatic event (anytime) according to MAF copy number (data according to a pre-specified cut off of 2.5) in non-post menopausal patients.
- FIG. 22 IDFS of the zoledronic acid treatment arm and the control arm, excluding bone metastasis of post-menopausal women.
- FIG. 23 IDFS of the zoledronic acid treatment arm and the control arm, excluding bone metastasis of non-post-menopausal women.
- FIG. 24 Overall survival (OS) by treatment arm. Treatment of MAF FISH positive patients with zoledronic acid significantly impacted the OS.
- FIG. 25 Prognostic value of MAF FISH for disease free survival (DFS) in the Azure control arm.
- FIG. 26 Prognostic value of MAF FISH for overall survival (OS) in the Azure control arm.
- FIG. 27 Predictive value of MAF FISH for the effect of zoledronic acid treatment on the disease free survival (DFS) outcome.
- FIG. 28 Predictive value of MAF FISH for the effect of zoledronic acid treatment on the disease free survival (DFS) outcome on post menopausal patients.
- FIG. 29 Predictive value of MAF FISH for the effect of zoledronic acid treatment on the disease free survival (DFS) outcome on non-post menopausal patients.
- FIG. 30 Predictive value of MAF FISH for the effect of zoledronic acid treatment on the OS outcome.
- FIG. 31 Predictive value of MAF FISH for the effect of zoledronic acid treatment on the OS outcome in post menopausal patients.
- FIG. 32 Predictive value of MAF FISH for the effect of zoledronic acid treatment on the OS outcome in non-post menopausal patients.
- the c-MAF gene (v-maf musculoaponeurotic fibrosarcoma oncogene homologue (avian) also known as MAF or MGC71685) is a transcription factor containing a leucine zipper which acts like a homodimer or a heterodimer. Depending on the DNA binding site, the encoded protein can be a transcriptional activator or repressor.
- the DNA sequence encoding c-MAF is described in the NCBI database under accession number NG_016440 (SEQ ID NO: 1)(coding)).
- the genomic sequence of c-MAF is set forth in SEQ ID NO:13.
- the methods of the present invention may utilize either the coding sequence or the genomic DNA sequence.
- RNA Two messenger RNA are transcribed from said DNA sequence, each of the which will give rise to one of the two c-MAF protein isoforms, the a isoform and the R isoform.
- the complementary DNA sequences for each of said isoforms are described, respectively, in the NCBI database under accession numbers NM_005360.4 (SEQ ID NO: 2) and NM_001031804.2 (SEQ ID NO: 3).
- Use of the c-MAF gene to predict the prognosis of ER+ breast cancer can be found in U.S. application Ser. No. 13/878,114, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
- Use of the c-MAF gene to predict the prognosis of triple-negative and ER+ breast cancer is described in U.S.
- ER triple negative breast cancer
- HER-2, PgR triple negative breast cancer
- “basal-like” also refers to breast cancer characterized by a gene expression profile based on the up-regulation and/or down-regulation of the following ten genes: (1) Forkhead box CI (FOXC 1); (2) Melanoma inhibitory activity (MIA); (3) NDC80 homolog, kinetochore complex component (KNTC2); (4) Centrosomal protein 55 kDa (CEP55); (5) Anillin, actin binding protein (ANLN); (6) Maternal embryonic leucine zipper kinase (MELK); (7) G protein-coupled receptor 160 (GPR160); (8) Transmembrane protein 45B (TMEM45B); (9) Estrogen receptor 1 (ESR1); (10) Forkhead box A1 (FOXA1). Because the gene expression profile used to classify breast cancer tumors as basal-like subtype does not include the estrogen receptor, the progesterone receptor or Her2, both triple negative and non-triple negative breast cancers may be classified as basal-like subtype.
- Multiple-negative breast cancer refers to a breast cancer which is characterized by a lack of detectable expression of both ER and PR (preferably when the measures of expression of ER and PR are carried out by the method disclosed by M. Elizabeth H et al., Journal of Clinical Oncology, 28(16): 2784-2795, 2010) and the tumor cells are not amplified for epidermal growth factor receptor type 2 (HER2 or ErbB2), a receptor normally located on the cell surface. Tumor cells are considered negative for expression of ER and PR if less than 5 percent of the tumor cell nuclei are stained for ER and PR expression using standard immunohistochemical techniques.
- HER2 or ErbB2 epidermal growth factor receptor type 2
- tumor cells are considered negative for HER2 overexpression if they yield a test result score of 0 or 1+, or 2+ when tested with a HercepTestTM Kit (Code K5204, Dako North America, Inc., Carpinteria, CA), a semi-quantitative immunohistochemical assay using a polyclonal anti-HER2 primary antibody or if they are HER2 FISH negative.
- HercepTestTM Kit Code K5204, Dako North America, Inc., Carpinteria, CA
- ER+ breast cancer is understood as breast cancer the tumor cells of which express the estrogen receptor (ER). This makes said tumors sensitive to estrogen, meaning that the estrogen makes the cancerous breast tumor grow.
- ER ⁇ breast cancer is understood as breast cancer the tumor cells of which do not express the estrogen receptor (ER).
- luminal A and B subtypes are included luminal A and B subtypes.
- HER2+ refers to a breast cancer which is characterized by tumor cells with detectable expression of epidermal growth factor receptor type 2 (HER2 or ErbB2) and/or amplification for the HER2 gene, a receptor normally located on the cell surface.
- tumor cells are considered negative for HER2 overexpression if they yield a test result score of 0 or 1+, or 2+ when tested with a HercepTestTM Kit (Code K5204, Dako North America, Inc., Carpinteria, CA), a semi-quantitative immunohistochemical assay using a polyclonal anti-HER2 primary antibody or if they are HER2 FISH negative.
- a “post-menopausal” subject is understood to be a woman who has undergone menopause and has experienced sixty consecutive months without menstruation. See Coleman et al Lancet Oncol 2014; 15: 997-1006.
- a woman may confirm her postmenopausal status through the measuring of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH).
- FSH follicle stimulating hormone
- a “non post-menopausal” subject is any subject who has not gone through menopause and experienced sixty consecutive months without menstruation. “Non post-menopausal” subjects include premenopausal, perimenopausal, and unknown menopausal status women.
- metastasis is understood as the propagation of a cancer from the organ where it started to a different organ. It generally occurs through the blood or lymphatic system.
- the cancer cells spread and form a new tumor, the latter is called a secondary or metastatic tumor.
- the cancer cells forming the secondary tumor are like those of the original tumor.
- a breast cancer for example, spreads (metastasizes) to the bone
- the secondary tumor is formed of malignant breast cancer cells.
- the disease in the bone is metastatic breast cancer and not bone cancer.
- the metastasis is breast cancer which has spread (metastasized) to the bone.
- recurrence refers to the return of breast cancer following a period of time in which no cancer was detected.
- Breast cancer may reoccur locally in the breast or tissue surrounding the breast.
- Breast cancer may also reoccur in nearby lymph nodes or lymph nodes not in the surrounding area.
- metastasis When the breast cancer reoccurs by spreading to other tissues or travels through the blood stream to recur in bones or other organs, it is also referred to as metastasis.
- metastasis metastasis
- recurrence also encompasses the risk of recurrence.
- relapse refers to the situation when symptoms have decreased, but the subject is not cancer free, and then cancer returns.
- Breast cancer may relapse locally in the breast or tissue surrounding the breast.
- Breast cancer may also relapse in nearby lymph nodes or lymph nodes not in the surrounding area.
- metastasis When the breast cancer relapses by spreading to other tissues or travels through the blood stream to recur in bones or other organs, it is also referred to as metastasis.
- metastasis As used herein, relapse also encompasses the risk of relapse.
- disease free survival refers to the length of time after primary treatment for a cancer ends that the patient survives without any signs or symptoms of that cancer.
- disease free survival is referred to as DFS, relapse-free survival, or RFS.
- OS all survival
- the term “subject” or “patient” refers to all animals classified as mammals and includes but is not limited to domestic and farm animals, primates and humans, for example, human beings, non-human primates, cows, horses, pigs, sheep, goats, dogs, cats, or rodents.
- the subject is a human man or woman of any age or race.
- Preferred confidence intervals are at least about 50%, at least about 60%, at least about 70%, at least about 80%, at least about 90% at least about 95%.
- the p-values are, preferably, 0.05, 0.01, 0.005, or 0.0001 or less. More preferably, at least about 60 percent, at least about 70 percent, at least about 80 percent or at least about 90 percent of the subjects of a population can be properly identified by the method of the present invention.
- tumor sample is understood as a sample (e.g., tumor tissue, circulating tumor cell, circulating tumor DNA) originating from the primary breast cancer tumor.
- Said sample can be obtained by conventional methods, for example biopsy, using methods well known by the persons skilled in related medical techniques.
- the methods for obtaining a biopsy sample include splitting a tumor into large pieces, or microdissection, or other cell separating methods known in the art.
- the tumor cells can additionally be obtained by means of cytology through aspiration with a small gauge needle.
- samples can be fixed in formalin and soaked in paraffin or first frozen and then soaked in a tissue freezing medium such as OCT compound by means of immersion in a highly cryogenic medium which allows rapid freezing.
- “functionally equivalent variant of the c-MAF protein” is understood as (i) variants of the c-MAF protein (SEQ ID NO: 4 or SEQ ID NO: 5) in which one or more of the amino acid residues are substituted by a conserved or non-conserved amino acid residue (preferably a conserved amino acid residue), wherein such substituted amino acid residue may or may not be one encoded by the genetic code, or (ii) variants comprising an insertion or a deletion of one or more amino acids and having the same function as the c-MAF protein, i.e., to act as a DNA binding transcription factor.
- Variants of the c-MAF protein can be identified using methods based on the capacity of c-MAF for promoting in vitro cell proliferation as shown in international patent application WO2005/046731(hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety), based on the capacity of the so-called inhibitor for blocking the transcription capacity of a reporter gene under the control of cyclin D2 promoter or of a promoter containing the c-MAF responsive region (MARE or c-MAF responsive element) in cells expressing c-MAF as described in WO2008098351 (hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety), or based on the capacity of the so-called inhibitor for blocking reporter gene expression under the control of the IL-4 promoter in response to the stimulation with PMA/ionomycin in cells expressing NFATc2 and c-MAF as described in US2009048117A (hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety).
- the variants according to the invention preferably have sequence similarity with the amino acid sequence of any of the c-MAF protein isoforms (SEQ ID NO: 4 or SEQ ID NO: 5) of at about least 50%, at least about 60%, at about least 70%, at least about 80%, at least about 90%, at least about 91%, at least about 92%, at least about 93%, at least about 94%, at least about 95%, at least about 96%, at least about 97%, at about least 98% or at about least 99%.
- the degree of similarity between the variants and the specific c-MAF protein sequences defined previously is determined using algorithms and computer processes which are widely known by the persons skilled in the art.
- the similarity between two amino acid sequences is preferably determined using the BLASTP algorithm [BLAST Manual, Altschul, S., et al., NCBI NLM NIH Bethesda, Md. 20894, Altschul, S., et al., J. Mol. Biol. 215: 403-410 (1990)].
- agent for avoiding or preventing bone remodelling refers to any molecule capable of preventing, inhibiting, treating, reducing, or stopping bone degradation either by stimulating the osteoblast proliferation or inhibiting the osteoclast proliferation or fixing the bone structure.
- Agents for avoiding or prevent bone remodeling include agents for avoiding or preventing bone degradation and include agents for avoiding or preventing bone synthesis.
- a “c-MAF inhibitory agent” refers to any molecule capable of completely or partially inhibiting the c-MAF gene expression, both by preventing the expression product of said gene from being produced (interrupting the c-MAF gene transcription and/or blocking the translation of the mRNA coming from the c-MAF gene expression) and by directly inhibiting the c-MAF protein activity.
- C-MAF gene expression inhibitors can be identified using methods based on the capacity of the so-called inhibitor to block the capacity of c-MAF to promote the in vitro cell proliferation, such as shown in the international patent application WO2005/046731 (the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference), based on the capacity of the so-called inhibitor to block the transcription capacity of a reporter gene under the control of the cyclin D2 promoter or of a promoter containing the c-MAF response region (MARE or c-MAF responsive element) in cells which express c-MAF such as described in WO2008098351 (the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference) or based on the capacity of the so-called inhibitor to block the expression of a reporter gene under the control of the IL-4 promoter in response to the stimulation with PMA/ionomycin in cells which express NFATc2 and c-MAF such as described in US2009048117A (the entire contents of which is hereby incorporated by reference).
- Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) or “mTor” refers to those proteins that correspond to EC 2.7.11.1.
- mTor enzymes are serine/threonine protein kinases and regulate cell proliferation, cell motility, cell growth, cell survival, and transcription.
- an “mTor inhibitor” refers to any molecule capable of completely or partially inhibiting the mTor gene expression, both by preventing the expression product of said gene from being produced (interrupting the mTor gene transcription and/or blocking the translation of the mRNA coming from the mTor gene expression) and by directly inhibiting the mTor protein activity. Including inhibitors that have a dual or more targets and among them mTor protein activity.
- Src refers to those proteins that correspond to EC 2.7.10.2. Src is a non-receptor tyrosine kinase and a proto-oncogene. Src may play a role in cell growth and embryonic development.
- a “Src inhibitor” refers to any molecule capable of completely or partially inhibiting the Src gene expression, both by preventing the expression product of said gene from being produced (interrupting the Src gene transcription and/or blocking the translation of the mRNA coming from the Src gene expression) and by directly inhibiting the Src protein activity.
- Prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase 2 As used herein, “Prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase 2”, “cyclooxygenase-2” or “COX-2” refers to those proteins that correspond to EC 1.14.99.1. COX-2 is responsible for converting arachidonic acid to prostaglandin endoperoxide H2.
- COX-2 inhibitor refers to any molecule capable of completely or partially inhibiting the COX-2 gene expression, both by preventing the expression product of said gene from being produced (interrupting the COX-2 gene transcription and/or blocking the translation of the mRNA coming from the COX-2 gene expression) and by directly inhibiting the COX-2 protein activity.
- outcome or “clinical outcome” refers to the resulting course of disease and/or disease progression and can be characterized for example by recurrence, period of time until recurrence, relapse, metastasis, period of time until metastasis, number of metastases, number of sites of metastasis and/or death due to disease.
- a good clinical outcome includes cure, prevention of recurrence, prevention of metastasis and/or survival within a fixed period of time (without recurrence), and a poor clinical outcome includes disease progression, metastasis and/or death within a fixed period of time.
- IDFS invasive disease free survival
- IDFS refers to, in cancer, the length of time after primary treatment for a cancer ends that the patient survives without any signs or symptoms of that cancer invading the same breast parenchyma as the original primary tumor or other tissues.
- IDFS includes: ipsilateral invasive breast tumor recurrence, local or regional invasive breast cancer recurrence, metastatic or distant recurrence, death attributable to any cause, including breast cancer, contralateral invasive breast cancer, and second primary invasive cancer (non-breast but excluding basal-cell or squamous skin cancers). See Coleman et al Lancet Oncol 2014; 15: 997-1006.
- diagnosis of metastasis in a subject with breast cancer is understood as identifying a disease (metastasis) by means of studying its signs, i.e., in the context of the present invention by means of increased c-MAF gene expression levels (i.e., overexpression) in the breast cancer tumor tissue with respect to a control sample.
- prognosis of the tendency to develop metastasis in a subject with breast cancer is understood as knowing based on the signs if the breast cancer that said subject has will metastasize in the future.
- the sign is c-MAF gene overexpression in tumor tissue.
- a subject has a positive diagnosis for metastasis” when the breast cancer suffered by said subject has metastasized to other organs of the body, in a particular embodiment, to the bone.
- the term is similarly used for recurrence and relapse.
- the person skilled in the art will understand that the prediction of the tendency for a primary tumor to metastasize, relapse or reoccur is not intended to be correct for all the subjects to be identified (i.e., for 100% of the subjects). Nevertheless, the term requires enabling the identification of a statistically significant part of the subjects (for example, a cohort in a cohort study). Whether a part is statistically significant can be determined in a simple manner by the person skilled in the art using various well known statistical evaluation tools, for example, the determination of confidence intervals, determination of p values, Student's T test, Mann-Whitney test, etc. Details are provided in Dowdy and Wearden, Statistics for Research, John Wiley and Sons, New York 1983.
- the preferred confidence intervals are at least about 90%, at least about 95%, at least about 97%, at least 98% or at least 99%.
- the p values are preferably 0.1, 0.05, 0.01, 0.005 or 0.0001. More preferably, at least about 60%, at least about 70%, at least about 80% or at least about 90% of the subjects of a population can be suitably identified by the method of the present invention.
- “poor prognosis” indicates that the subject is expected e.g. predicted to not survive and/or to have, or is at high risk of having, recurrence, relapse, or distant metastases within a set time period.
- the term “high” is a relative term and, in the context of this application, refers to the risk of the “high” expression group with respect to a clinical outcome (recurrence, distant metastases, etc.).
- a “high” risk can be considered as a risk higher than the average risk for a heterogeneous cancer patient population. In the study of Paik et al. (2004), an overall “high” risk of recurrence was considered to be higher than 15 percent.
- the risk will also vary in function of the time period. The time period can be, for example, five years, ten years, fifteen years or even twenty years of initial diagnosis of cancer or after the prognosis was made.
- Reference value refers to a laboratory value used as a reference for values/data obtained by laboratory examinations of patients or samples collected from patients.
- the reference value or reference level can be an absolute value; a relative value; a value that has an upper and/or lower limit; a range of values; an average value; a median value, a mean value, or a value as compared to a particular control or baseline value.
- a reference value can be based on an individual sample value, such as for example, a value obtained from a sample from the subject being tested, but at an earlier point in time.
- the reference value can be based on a large number of samples, such as from a population of subjects of the chronological age matched group, or based on a pool of samples including or excluding the sample to be tested.
- treatment refers to any type of therapy, which aims at terminating, preventing, ameliorating or reducing the susceptibility to a clinical condition as described herein.
- the term treatment relates to prophylactic treatment (i.e. a therapy to reduce the susceptibility to a clinical condition), of a disorder or a condition as defined herein.
- prophylactic treatment i.e. a therapy to reduce the susceptibility to a clinical condition
- treatment refers to obtaining a desired pharmacologic or physiologic effect, covering any treatment of a pathological condition or disorder in a mammal, including a human.
- treatment includes (1) preventing the disorder from occurring or recurring in a subject, (2) inhibiting the disorder, such as arresting its development, (3) stopping or terminating the disorder or at least symptoms associated therewith, so that the host no longer suffers from the disorder or its symptoms, such as causing regression of the disorder or its symptoms, for example, by restoring or repairing a lost, missing or defective function, or stimulating an inefficient process, or (4) relieving, alleviating, or ameliorating the disorder, or symptoms associated therewith, where ameliorating is used in a broad sense to refer to at least a reduction in the magnitude of a parameter, such as inflammation, pain, or immune deficiency.
- a parameter such as inflammation, pain, or immune deficiency
- sample or “biological sample” means biological material isolated from a subject.
- the biological sample may contain any biological material suitable for determining the expression level of the c-MAF gene.
- the sample can be isolated from any suitable biological tissue or fluid such as, for example, tumor tissue, blood, blood plasma, serum, urine or cerebral spinal fluid (CSF).
- CSF cerebral spinal fluid
- the term “expression level” of a gene as used herein refers to the measurable quantity of gene product produced by the gene in a sample of the subject, wherein the gene product can be a transcriptional product or a translational product. Accordingly, the expression level can pertain to a nucleic acid gene product such as mRNA or cDNA or a polypeptide gene product.
- the expression level is derived from a subject's sample and/or a reference sample or samples, and can for example be detected de novo or correspond to a previous determination.
- the expression level can be determined or measured, for example, using microarray methods, PCR methods (such as qPCR), and/or antibody based methods, as is known to a person of skill in the art.
- “Increased expression level” is understood as the expression level when it refers to the levels of the c-MAF gene greater than those in a reference sample or control sample. These increased levels can be caused without excluding other mechanisms by a gene or 16q23 or 16q22-24 chromosomal locus amplification, copy gain or translocation.
- a sample can be considered to have high c-MAF expression level when the expression level in the sample isolated from the patient is at least about 1.1 times, 1.2 times, 1.3 times, 1.4 times, 1.5 times, 2 times, 2.1 times, 2.2 times, 2.3 times, 2.4 times, 2.5 times, 3 times, 4 times, 5 times, 10 times, 20 times, 30 times, 40 times, 50 times, 60 times, 70 times, 80 times, 90 times, 100 times or even more with respect to the reference or control.
- an “increased expression level” is a “high” expression level.
- An expression level that is “not increased” or “non increased” is any value that is not included in the definition of “increased” expression level, including a value equal or the reference or control level or a decreased expression level in comparison to a reference or control level.
- “Decreased expression level” is understood as the expression level when it refers to the levels of the c-MAF gene less than those in a reference sample or control sample. This decreased level can be caused without excluding other mechanisms by a gene or 16q23 or 16q22-24 chromosomal locus deletion.
- a sample can be considered to have decreased c-MAF expression levels when the expression level in the sample isolated from the patient is at least about 1.1 times, 1.2 times, 1.3 times, 1.4 times, 1.5 times, 2 times, 2.1 times, 2.2 times, 2.3 times, 2.4 times, 2.5 times, 3 times, 4 times, 5 times, 10 times, 20 times, 30 times, 40 times, 50 times, 60 times, 70 times, 80 times, 90 times, 100 times or even less with respect to the reference or control.
- a “decreased expression level” is a “low” expression level.
- the term “gene copy number” refers to the copy number of a nucleic acid molecule in a cell.
- the gene copy number includes the gene copy number in the genomic (chromosomal) DNA of a cell. In a normal cell (non-tumoral cell), the gene copy number is normally two copies (one copy in each member of the chromosome pair). The gene copy number sometimes includes half of the gene copy number taken from samples of a cell population.
- “increased gene copy number” is understood as when the c-MAF gene copy number is more than the copy number that a reference sample or control sample has. These increased gene copy number can be caused without excluding other mechanisms by a gene or 16q23 or 16q22-24 chromosomal locus amplification, copy gain or translocation. In particular, it can be considered that a sample has an increased c-MAF copy number when the copy number is more than 2 copies, for example, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 copies, and even more than 10 copies of the c-MAF gene.
- “increased gene copy number” is determined based on an average of copies per cells counted. In embodiments, it can be considered that a sample has an increased c-MAF copy number when the average copy number per cell counted is more than 2 copies, for example, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 copies, and even more than 10 copies of the c-MAF gene.
- “decreased gene copy number” is understood as when the c-MAF gene copy number is less than the copy number that a reference sample or control sample has. These decreased gene copy number can be caused without excluding other mechanisms by a gene or 16q23 or 16q22-24 chromosomal locus deletions. In particular, it can be considered that a sample has a decreased c-MAF copy number when the copy number is less than 2 copies of the c-MAF gene.
- a “not increased gene copy number” is understood as when the c-MAF gene copy number or the average c-MAF gene copy number is less than the copy number that a reference sample or positive for the increase sample has.
- the not increased gene copy number can be caused without excluding other mechanisms by no increase in gene or 16q23 or 16q22-24 chromosomal locus amplification, copy gain or translocation.
- amplification of a gene refers to a process through which various copies of a gene or of a gene fragment are formed in an individual cell or a cell line.
- the copies of the gene are not necessarily located in the same chromosome.
- the duplicated region is often called an “amplicon”. Normally, the amount of mRNA produced, i.e., the gene expression level also increases in proportion to the copy number of a particular gene.
- gain refers any chromosomal copy number increase from the norm, i.e., in a diploid organism, 3 copies of a gene in a cell would be a gain.
- gain includes the term “copy gain”, and is used synonymously with “copy number”.
- Probe refers to an oligonucleotide sequence that is complementary to a specific nucleic acid sequence of interest.
- the probes may be specific to regions of chromosomes that are known to undergo translocations.
- the probes have a specific label or tag.
- the tag is a fluorophore.
- the probe is a DNA in situ hybridization probe whose labeling is based on the stable coordinative binding of platinum to nucleic acids and proteins. In some embodiments, the probe is described in U.S. Pat. Nos.
- Tag refers to any physical molecule that is directly or indirectly associated with a probe, allowing the probe or the location of the probed to be visualized, marked, or otherwise captured.
- Translocation refers to the exchange of chromosomal material in unequal or equal amounts between chromosomes. In some cases, the translocation is on the same chromosome. In some cases, the translocation is between different chromosomes. Translocations occur at a high frequency in many types of cancer, including breast cancer and leukemia. Translocations can be either primary reciprocal translocations or the more complex secondary translocations. There are several primary translocations that involve the immunoglobin heavy chain (IgH) locus that are believed to constitute the initiating event in many cancers. (Eychene, A., Rocques, N., and Puoponnot, C., A new MAFia in cancer. 2008. Nature Reviews: Cancer. 8: 683-693.)
- IgH immunoglobin heavy chain
- Polyploid or “polyploidy”, as used herein, indicates that the cell contains more than two copies of a gene of interest.
- the gene of interest is MAF.
- polyploidy is associated with an accumulation of expression of the gene of interest.
- polyploidy is associated with genomic instability.
- the genomic instability may lead to chromosome translocations.
- “Whole genome sequencing”, as used herein, is a process by which the entire genome of an organism is sequenced at a single time. See, e.g., Ng., P. C. and Kirkness, E. F., Whole Genome Sequencing. 2010. Methods in Molecular Biology. 628: 215-226.
- Exome sequencing is a process by which the entire coding region of the DNA of an organism is sequenced. In exome sequencing, the mRNA is sequenced. The untranslated regions of the genome are not included in exome sequencing. See, e.g., Choi, M. et al., Genetic diagnosis by whole exome capture and massively parallel DNA sequencing. 2009. PNAS. 106(45): 19096-19101.
- binding member describes one member of a pair of molecules that bind one another.
- the members of a binding pair may be naturally derived or wholly or partially synthetically produced.
- One member of the pair of molecules has an area on its surface, or a cavity, which binds to and is therefore complementary to a particular spatial and polar organization of the other member of the pair of molecules.
- types of binding pairs are antigen-antibody, receptor-ligand and enzyme-substrate.
- the binding member is an antibody.
- the binding member is an antibody that binds a c-MAF antigen.
- CDR region or “CDR” is intended to indicate the hypervariable regions of the heavy and light chains of the immunoglobulin as defined by Kabat et al., (1991) Sequences of Proteins of Immunological Interest, 5th Edition. US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Service, NIH, Washington.
- An antibody typically contains 3 heavy chain CDRs, termed HCDR1, HCDR2, and HCDR3, and 3 light chain CDRs, termed LCDR1, LCDR2 and LCDR3.
- the term CDR or CDRs is used here in order to indicate one of these regions or several, or even the whole, of these regions which contain the majority of the amino acid residues responsible for the binding by affinity of the antibody for the antigen or the epitope which it recognizes.
- the third CDR of the heavy chain (HCDR3) has a greatest size variability i.e. greater diversity, essentially due to the mechanism known in the art as V(D)J rearrangement of the V, D and J gene segments of the germline immunoglobulin heavy chain gene locus.
- the HCDR3 may be as short as two amino acids or as long as 26 amino acids, or may have any length in between these two extremes. CDR length may also vary according to the length that can be accommodated by the particular underlying framework. Functionally, HCDR3 can play an important role in the determination of the specificity of the antibody (Segal et al., (1974) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA.
- antibody As used herein, “antibody”, “antibody molecule”, or “antibodies” describes an immunoglobulin whether naturally, or partly, or wholly synthetically produced. The term also covers any polypeptide or protein comprising an antibody antigen-binding site. It must be understood here that the invention does not relate to the antibodies in natural form, that is to say they are not in their natural environment but that they have been able to be isolated or obtained by purification from natural sources, or else obtained by genetic recombination, or by chemical synthesis, and that they can then contain unnatural amino acids.
- Antibody fragments that comprise an antibody antigen-binding site include, but are not limited to, molecules such as Fab, Fab′, F(ab′)2, Fab′-SH, scFv, Fv, dAb and Fd.
- Various other antibody molecules including one or more antibody antigen-binding sites have been engineered, including for example Fab2, Fab3, diabodies, triabodies, tetrabodies, camelbodies, nanobodies and minibodies.
- Antibody molecules and methods for their construction and use are described in Hollinger & Hudson (2005) Nature Biot. 23(9): 1126-1136.
- antibody molecule should be construed as covering any binding member or substance having an antibody antigen-binding site with the required specificity and/or binding to antigen.
- this term covers functional antibody fragments and derivatives, including any polypeptide comprising an antibody antigen-binding site, whether natural or wholly or partially synthetic.
- Chimeric molecules comprising an antibody antigen-binding site, or equivalent, fused to another polypeptide (e.g. derived from another species or belonging to another antibody class or subclass) are therefore included. Cloning and expression of chimeric antibodies are described for example in EP0120694A (Boss et al) and EP0125023A (Cabilly et al), which are incorporated herein in their entirety.
- “functional fragment or variant” of, for example, a binding member of the present invention means a fragment or variant of a binding member that retains at least some function of a full binding member (e.g., the ability to specifically bind to antigen such as Maf).
- Tumor tissue sample is understood as the tissue sample originating from the breast cancer tumor, including but not limited to circulating tumor cells and circulating tumor DNA. Said sample can be obtained by conventional methods, for example biopsy, using methods well known by the persons skilled in related medical techniques.
- Osteolytic bone metastasis refers to a type of metastasis in which bone resorption (progressive loss of the bone density) is produced in the proximity of the metastasis resulting from the stimulation of the osteoclast activity by the tumor cells and is characterized by severe pain, pathological fractures, hypercalcaemia, spinal cord compression and other syndromes resulting from nerve compression.
- the present invention is directed to identifying subjects suffering from breast cancer who will benefit from treatment with particular agents and/or therapies. In some embodiments, the invention is directed to identifying subjects suffering from breast cancer who will not benefit from treatment with particular agents and therapies. In some embodiments, the subjects have a high expression level, copy number, amplification, gain and/or translocation of c-MAF. In certain embodiments, the subjects have a low expression level, copy number, amplification, gain and/or translocation of c-MAF. In particular embodiments, the cancer is triple-negative breast cancer. In other embodiments, the cancer is ER+ breast cancer. In further embodiments, the cancer is ER-breast cancer. In still further embodiments, the cancer is HER2+ breast cancer.
- the cancer is a basal-like breast cancer.
- the subjects are post-menopausal.
- the subjects are non-post menopausal.
- the levels of c-MAF can be used to diagnosis metastasis, relapse or recurrence, or to predict the tendency of a tumor to undergo metastasis, relapse or recurrence. Therefore, as described in the present invention, given that the c-MAF gene overexpression in breast cancer cells is related to the presence of metastasis, relapse or recurrence, the c-MAF gene expression levels allow making decisions in terms of the most suitable therapy for the subject suffering said cancer.
- the invention comprises quantifying only the c-MAF gene expression level as a single marker, i.e., the method does not involve determining the expression level of any additional marker.
- the invention relates to an in vitro method for designing a customized therapy for a subject with breast cancer, which comprises a) quantifying the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a tumor sample of said subject and b) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification or gain obtained with the expression level, copy number, amplification or gain of said gene in a control sample, wherein the therapy is determined based on the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification or gain in the subject.
- the subject has a high c-MAF gene expression level.
- the subject has a low c-MAF gene expression level.
- the subject is administered an agent that avoids and/or prevents bone remodelling, including agents that avoid or prevent bone degradation.
- the subject is administered an agent that treats the cancer.
- the subject is administered a c-MAF inhibitory agent.
- the agent that avoids and/or prevents bone remodelling or the c-MAF inhibitory agent is any agent disclosed in U.S. Publ. Nos. 2014/0057796 and 2015/0293100 and U.S. application Ser. No. 15/027,946, which are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.
- the invention relates to an in vitro method for designing a customized therapy for a subject having breast cancer which comprises i) quantifying the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a sample of said subject and ii) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain obtained in i) with a reference value, wherein if the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain is not increased with respect to said reference value, then said subject is susceptible to receive a therapy aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling or improves disease free survival or overall survival.
- the subject is non-postmenopausal. In other embodiments, the subject is postmenopausal.
- the subject is administered the agent aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodelling.
- the subject is administered an agent that improves disease free survival or overall survival.
- the subject is administered a c-MAF inhibitory agent.
- the invention relates to an in vitro method for designing a customized therapy for a non-postmenopausal subject having breast cancer which comprises i) quantifying the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a sample of said subject and ii) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain obtained in i) with a reference value, wherein if the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain is increased with respect to said reference value, then said subject is not susceptible to receive a therapy aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling and/or improves disease free survival or overall survival.
- the subject is not administered the agent aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling and/or improves disease free survival or overall survival.
- the invention relates to an in vitro method for designing a customized therapy for a postmenopausal subject having breast cancer which comprises i) quantifying the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a sample of said subject and ii) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain obtained in i) with a reference value, wherein if the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain is increased with respect to said reference value, then said subject is susceptible to receive a therapy aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling and/or improves disease free survival or overall survival.
- the subject is administered the agent aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling and/or the therapy to improve disease free survival or overall survival.
- the invention relates to an in vitro method for designing a customized therapy for a postmenopausal subject having breast cancer which comprises i) quantifying the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a sample of said subject and ii) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain obtained in i) with a reference value, wherein if the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain is not increased with respect to said reference value, then said subject is not susceptible to receive a therapy aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling and/or improves disease free survival or overall survival.
- the subject is not administered the agent aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling and/or improves disease free survival or overall survival.
- the invention relates to a method for the treatment of bone metastasis in a subject having breast cancer and having decreased c-MAF levels in a metastatic tumor sample with respect to a control sample comprising administering an agent capable of preventing or inhibiting bone remodeling and or improve disease free survival or overall survival, wherein the agent capable of avoiding or preventing bone remodeling or improving disease free survival or overall survival is selected from the group consisting of: a bisphosphonate, a RANKL inhibitor, PTH, PTHLH inhibitor (including neutralizing antibodies and peptides), a PRG analog, strontium ranelate, a DKK-1 inhibitor, a dual MET and VEGFR2 inhibitor, an estrogen receptor modulator, an EGFR inhibitor, calcitonin, Radium-223, a CCR5 antagonist, a Src kinase inhibitor, a COX-2 inhibitor, an mTor inhibitor, and a cathepsin K inhibitor.
- the subject is non-postmenopausal.
- the invention relates to a method for the treatment of bone metastasis in a postmenopausal subject having breast cancer and having increased c-MAF levels in a metastatic tumor sample with respect to a control sample comprising administering an agent capable of preventing or inhibiting bone remodeling and/or an agent that improves disease free survival or overall survival, wherein the agent capable of avoiding or preventing bone remodeling and/or improving disease free survival or overall survival is selected from the group consisting of: a bisphosphonate, a RANKL inhibitor, PTH, PTHLH inhibitor (including neutralizing antibodies and peptides), a PRG analog, strontium ranelate, a DKK-1 inhibitor, a dual MET and VEGFR2 inhibitor, an estrogen receptor modulator, an EGFR inhibitor, calcitonin, Radium-223, a CCR5 antagonist, a Src kinase inhibitor, a COX-2 inhibitor, an mTor inhibitor, and a cathepsin K inhibitor.
- the subject is administered an agent that avoids and/or prevents bone remodelling, including agents that avoid or prevent bone degradation. In embodiments, the subject is administered an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation.
- the expression level, copy number, amplification or gain in the sample indicates whether the subject is susceptible to receiving therapy aiming to prevent (if the subject has yet to undergo metastasis) and/or treat metastasis (if the subject has already experienced metastasis), relapse or recurrence and or a therapy or agent intended to avoid or prevent bone remodelling.
- a copy number of MAF or average copy number of MAF per cell as measured using FISH ⁇ 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9 or 3.0 is considered a high value.
- the MAF FISH value is ⁇ 2.2.
- the MAF FISH value is ⁇ 2.3.
- the MAF FISH value is ⁇ 2.4.
- the MAF FISH value is ⁇ 2.5.
- the copy number of c-MAF as measured using FISH is ⁇ 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9 copies of the c-MAF gene.
- the subject has metastasis or a prognosis to undergo metastasis.
- the metastasis is a bone metastasis.
- the bone metastasis is osteolytic metastasis.
- the method comprises in a first step quantifying the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, gain or amplification in a tumor sample in a subject suffering from breast cancer.
- the sample is a primary tumor tissue sample of the subject.
- the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification or gain obtained in the tumor sample of the subject is compared with the expression level, copy number, amplification or gain of said gene in a control sample.
- the determination of the c-MAF gene expression levels, copy number, amplification or gain must be related to values of a control sample or reference sample. Depending on the type of tumor to be analyzed, the exact nature of the control sample may vary.
- the reference sample is a tumor tissue sample of a subject with breast cancer that has not metastasized, relapsed or reoccurred or that corresponds to the median value of the c-MAF gene expression levels, copy number, amplification or gain measured in a tumor tissue collection in biopsy samples of subjects with breast cancer which has not metastasized, relapsed or reoccurred.
- the methods of the invention comprise in a second step comparing the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification or gain obtained in the tumor sample (including but not limited to a primary tumor biopsy, circulating tumor cells and circulating tumor DNA) from the subject with the expression level of said gene in a control sample.
- the tumor sample including but not limited to a primary tumor biopsy, circulating tumor cells and circulating tumor DNA
- the determination of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification or gain must be correlated with values of a control sample or reference sample.
- the exact nature of the control sample may vary.
- the reference sample is a tumor tissue sample from a subject with breast cancer that has not metastasized or that corresponds to the median value of the c-MAF gene expression levels measured in a tumor tissue collection in biopsy samples from subjects with breast cancer which have not metastasized.
- Said reference sample is typically obtained by combining equal amounts of samples from a subject population.
- the typical reference samples will be obtained from subjects who are clinically well documented and in whom the absence of metastasis is well characterized.
- the normal concentrations (reference concentration) of the biomarker (c-MAF gene) can be determined, for example by providing the mean concentration over the reference population.
- considerations are taken into account when determining the reference concentration of the marker. Among such considerations are the age, weight, sex, general physical condition of the patient and the like.
- equal amounts of a group of at least about 2, at least about 10, at least about 20, at least about 25, at least about 50, at least about 75, at least about 100, at least about 250, at least about 500, to more than 1000 subjects, classified according to the foregoing considerations, for example according to various age categories, are taken as the reference group.
- the sample collection from which the reference level is derived will preferably be formed by subjects suffering from the same type of cancer as the patient object of the study (e.g., breast cancer).
- the reference value within a cohort of patients can be established using a receiving operating curve (ROC) and measuring the area under the curve for all de sensitivity and specificity pairs to determine which pair provides the best values and what the corresponding reference value is.
- ROC is a standard statistical concept. A description can be found in Stuart G. Baker “The Central Role of Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves in Evaluating Tests for the Early Detection of Cancer” Journal of The National Cancer Institute (2003) Vol 95, No. 7, 511-515.
- the level of this marker expressed in tumor tissues from patients with this median value can be compared and thus be assigned, for example, to the “increased” expression level. Due to the variability among subjects (for example, aspects referring to age, race, etc.) it is very difficult (if not virtually impossible) to establish absolute reference values of c-MAF expression. Thus, in particular embodiments the reference values for “increased” or “reduced” expression of the c-MAF expression are determined by calculating the percentiles by conventional means which involves performing assays in one or several samples isolated from subjects whose disease is well documented by any of the methods mentioned above the c-MAF expression levels.
- the “reduced” levels of c-MAF can then preferably be assigned to samples wherein the c-MAF expression levels are equal to or lower than 50 th percentile in the normal population including, for example, expression levels equal to or lower than the 60 th percentile in the normal population, equal to or lower than the 70 th percentile in the normal population, equal to or lower than the 80 th percentile in the normal population, equal to or lower than the 90 th percentile in the normal population, and equal to or lower than the 95 th percentile in the normal population.
- the “increased” c-MAF gene expression levels can then preferably be assigned to samples wherein the c-MAF gene expression levels are equal to or greater than the 50 th percentile in the normal population including, for example, expression levels equal to or greater than the 60 th percentile in the normal population, equal to or greater than the 70 th percentile in the normal population, equal to or greater than the 80 th percentile in the normal population, equal to or greater than the 90 th percentile in the normal population, and equal to or greater than the 95th percentile in the normal population.
- the degree of amplification or gain of the c-MAF gene can be determined by means of determining the amplification or gain of a chromosome region containing said gene.
- the chromosome region the amplification or gain of which is indicative of the existence of amplification or gain of the c-MAF gene is the locus 16q22-q24 which includes the c-MAF gene.
- the locus 16q22-q24 is located in chromosome 16, in the long arm of said chromosome and in a range between band 22 and band 24. This region corresponds in the NCBI database with the contigs NT_010498.15 and NT_010542.15.
- the degree of amplification or gain of the c-MAF gene can be determined by means of using a probe specific for said gene.
- the amplification or gain is in region at the 16q23 locus. In some embodiments, the amplification or gain is in any part of the chromosomal region between Chr. 16-79,392,959 bp to 79,663,806 bp (from centromere to telomere). In some embodiments, the amplification or gain is in the genomic region between Chr. 16-79,392,959 bp to 79,663,806 bp, but excluding DNA repeating elements. In some embodiments, amplification or gain is measured using a probe specific for that region.
- the c-MAF gene is amplified with respect to a reference gene copy number when the c-MAF gene copy number is higher than the copy number that a reference sample or control sample has.
- the c-MAF gene is said to be “amplified” if the genomic copy number or the average genomic copy number of the c-MAF gene is increased by at least about 2- (i.e., 6 copies), 3- (i.e., 8 copies), 4-, 5-, 6-, 7-, 8-, 9-, 10-, 15-, 20-, 25-, 30-, 35-, 40-, 45-, or 50-fold in a test sample relative to a control sample.
- a c-MAF gene is said to be “amplified” if the genomic copy number or the average genomic copy number of the c-MAF gene per cell is at least about 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 25., 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, and the like.
- the control sample refers to a tumor sample of a subject with breast cancer who has not suffered metastasis or that correspond to the median value of the c-MAF gene copy number measured in a tumor tissue collection in biopsy samples of subjects with breast cancer who have not suffered metastasis.
- Said reference sample is typically obtained by combining equal amounts of samples from a subject population. If the c-MAF gene copy number is increased with respect to the copy number of said gene in the control sample, then subject has a positive diagnosis for metastasis or a greater tendency to develop metastasis.
- the reference gene copy number is the gene copy number in a sample of breast cancer from a subject who has not suffered bone metastasis.
- the amplification or gain is determined by means of in situ hybridization or PCR.
- the chr16q22-24 including the c-MAF gene
- the chr16q22-24, including the c-MAF gene is amplified in breast cancer cells is related to the presence of metastasis, relapse or recurrence the chr16q22-24, including the c-MAF gene, amplification or gain allow making decisions in terms of the most suitable therapy for the subject suffering said cancer.
- the determination of the amplification of the c-MAF gene needs to be correlated with values of a control sample or reference sample that correspond to the level of amplification of the c-MAF gene measured in a tumor tissue sample of a subject with breast cancer who has not suffered metastasis or that correspond to the median value of the amplification of the c-MAF gene measured in a tumor tissue collection in biopsy samples of subjects with breast cancer who have not suffered metastasis.
- Said reference sample is typically obtained by combining equal amounts of samples from a subject population.
- the typical reference samples will be obtained from subjects who are clinically well documented and in whom the absence of metastasis is well characterized.
- the sample collection from which the reference level is derived will preferably be made up of subjects suffering the same type of cancer as the patient object of the study. Once this median value has been established, the level of amplification of c-MAF in tumor tissues of patients can be compared with this median value, and thus, if there is amplification, the subject has a positive diagnosis of metastasis or a greater tendency to develop metastasis.
- the invention relates to an in vitro method for designing a customized therapy for a patient suffering from breast cancer, which comprises determining if the c-MAF gene is translocated in a sample of said subject.
- the translocated gene is from the region at the 16q23 locus. In some embodiments, the translocated gene is from any part of the chromosomal region between Chr. 16-79,392,959 bp to 79,663,806 bp (from centromere to telomere). In some embodiments, the translocated gene is from the genomic region between Chr. 16-79,392,959 bp to 79,663,806 bp, but excluding DNA repeating elements. In some embodiments, the translocation is measured using a probe specific for that region.
- the translocation of the c-MAF gene can be determined by means of determining the translocation of a chromosome region containing said gene.
- the translocation is the t(14,16) translocation.
- the chromosome region that is translocated is from locus 16q22-q24. The locus 16q22-q24 is located in chromosome 16, in the long arm of said chromosome and in a range between band 22 and band 24. This region corresponds in the NCBI database with the contigs NT_010498.15 and NT_010542.15.
- the c-MAF gene translocates to chromosome 14 at the locus 14q32, resulting in the translocation t(14,16)(q32,q23).
- This translocation places the MAF gene next to the strong enhancers in the IgH locus, which, in some cases, leads to overexpression of MAF.
- the translocation of the c-MAF gene can be determined by means of using a probe specific for said translocation.
- One embodiment of the invention comprises a method in which in a first step it is determined if the c-MAF gene is translocated in a sample of a subject.
- the sample is a tumor tissue sample.
- a method of the invention for the prognosis of the tendency to develop bone metastasis in a subject with breast cancer comprises determining the c-MAF gene copy number in a sample of said subject wherein the c-MAF gene is translocated and comparing said copy number with the copy number of a control or reference sample, wherein if the c-MAF copy number is greater with respect to the c-MAF copy number of a control sample, then the subject has a greater tendency to develop bone metastasis.
- the amplification, gain and copy number of the c-MAF gene are determined after translocation of the c-MAF gene is determined.
- a probe is used to determine if the cell is polyploid for the c-MAF gene.
- a determination of polyploidy is made by determining if there are more than 2 signals from the gene of interest.
- polyploidy is determined by measuring the signal from the probe specific for the gene of interest and comparing it with a centromeric probe or other probe.
- the present invention is directed to predicting the IDFS of a subject suffering from breast cancer.
- the subjects have a high expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain of c-MAF.
- the subjects have a low expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain of c-MAF.
- the cancer is triple-negative breast cancer.
- the cancer is ER+ breast cancer.
- the cancer is ER ⁇ breast cancer.
- the cancer is basal-like breast cancer.
- the cancer is HER2+ breast cancer.
- the subjects are post-menopausal. In other embodiments, the subjects are non-post menopausal.
- the invention is directed to an in vitro method for predicting the IDFS of a patient with breast cancer which comprises i) quantifying the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain of the c-MAF gene in a sample of said subject and ii) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain obtained in step i) with a reference value, wherein increased expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain of said gene with respect to said reference value is indicative of a poor IDFS prognosis.
- the invention is directed to an in vitro method for predicting the IDFS of a patient with breast cancer which comprises determining the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a sample of said subject relative to a reference wherein an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to said reference is indicative of a poor IDFS prognosis.
- the invention is directed to an in vitro method for predicting the IDFS, excluding bone recurrence, of a patient with breast cancer which comprises determining the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a sample of said subject relative to a reference wherein an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to said reference is indicative of a poor IDFS prognosis, excluding bone recurrence.
- the copy number of MAF or average copy number of MAF per cell as measured using FISH ⁇ 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9 or 3.0 is considered a high value.
- the MAF FISH value is ⁇ 2.2. In other embodiments, the MAF FISH value is ⁇ 2.3. In further embodiments, the MAF FISH value is ⁇ 2.4. In still further embodiments, the MAF FISH value is ⁇ 2.5.
- the c-MAF status of the subject predicts the overall survival or the duration of the disease-free survival of the subject.
- the c-MAF status in any of the embodiments herein includes 16923 or 16q22-24 chromosomal locus amplification, copy gain or translocation or lack thereof, or 16q23 or 16q22-24 chromosomal locus deletions.
- a subject with an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference has a shorter disease free survival than a subject without an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference.
- the disease free survival of a subject with an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is at least about 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, 6 months, 7 months, 8 months, 9 months, 10 months, 11 months, 12 months, 1 year, eighteen months, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years, 7 years, 8 years, 9 years, 10 years or more than 10 years less than the disease free survival of a subject without an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference.
- a subject with an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference has a shorter overall survival than a subject without an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference.
- the overall survival of a subject with an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is at least about 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, 6 months, 7 months, 8 months, 9 months, 10 months, 11 months, 12 months, 1 year, eighteen months, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years, 7 years, 8 years, 9 years, 10 years or more than 10 years less than the disease free survival of a subject without an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference.
- the subject is post menopausal. In other embodiments, the subject is non-post-menopausal. In some embodiments, the subject is premenopausal.
- the disease free survival of a subject without an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is longer after treatment with a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e. zoledronic acid, than the disease free survival of a subject with an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference.
- the disease free survival of a subject without an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is at least about 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, 6 months, 7 months, 8 months, 9 months, 10 months, 11 months, 12 months, 1 year, eighteen months, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years, 7 years, 8 years, 9 years, 10 years or more after treatment with zoledronic acid than the disease free survival of a subject with an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference after treatment with a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e.
- the overall survival of a subject without an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is longer after treatment a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e. zoledronic acid, than the overall survival of a subject with an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference.
- the overall survival of a subject without an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is at least about 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, 6 months, 7 months, 8 months, 9 months, 10 months, 11 months, 12 months, 1 year, eighteen months, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years, 7 years, 8 years, 9 years, 10 years or more after treatment with zoledronic acid than the overall survival of a subject with an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference after treatment with zoledronic acid.
- the subject is post menopausal.
- the subject is non-post-menopausal.
- the subject is premenopausal.
- the disease free survival of a subject with an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is shorter after treatment a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e. zoledronic acid, than the disease free survival of a subject without an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference.
- the disease free survival of a subject with an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is at least about 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, 6 months, 7 months, 8 months, 9 months, 10 months, 11 months, 12 months, 1 year, eighteen months, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years, 7 years, 8 years, 9 years, 10 years or more than 10 years less after treatment a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e.
- the overall survival of a subject with an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is shorter after treatment a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e.
- the overall survival of a subject with an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is at least about 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, 6 months, 7 months, 8 months, 9 months, 10 months, 11 months, 12 months, 1 year, eighteen months, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years, 7 years, 8 years, 9 years, 10 years or more than 10 years less after treatment a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e.
- the subject is post menopausal. In other embodiments, the subject is non-post-menopausal. In some embodiments, the subject is premenopausal.
- the disease free survival of non-post menopausal subject with an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is shorter after treatment a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e. zoledronic acid, than the disease free survival of a subject without an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference.
- the disease free survival of a non-post menopausal subject with an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is at least about 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, 6 months, 7 months, 8 months, 9 months, 10 months, 11 months, 12 months, 1 year, eighteen months, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years, 7 years, 8 years, 9 years, 10 years or more than 10 years less after treatment a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e.
- zoledronic acid than the disease free survival of a subject without an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference after treatment a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e. zoledronic acid.
- the overall survival of a subject with an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is shorter after treatment a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e. zoledronic acid, than the disease free survival of a subject without an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference.
- the overall survival of a subject with an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is at least about 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, 6 months, 7 months, 8 months, 9 months, 10 months, 11 months, 12 months, 1 year, eighteen months, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years, 7 years, 8 years, 9 years, 10 years or more less after treatment a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e.
- the subject is post menopausal. In other embodiments, the subject is non-post-menopausal. In some embodiments, the subject is premenopausal.
- the predictive power of MAF for the OS or DFS of a subject is based on the menopausal status of the subject.
- MAF is predictive in postmenopausal, unknown and perimenopausl subjects at risk of a shorter DFS or worst OS.
- MAF positive subjects are those at less risk and are more likely to have a longer DFS and better OS.
- the MAF status of the subject is predictive of the treatments that should be received by the subject.
- the c-MAF status in any of the embodiments herein includes 16923 or 16922-24 chromosomal locus amplification, copy gain or translocation or lack thereof, or 16q23 or 16q22-24 chromosomal locus deletions.
- post-menopausal patients with an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference may be administered any treatment disclosed herein.
- post menopausal patients with an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference may be treated by extending their hormonal treatment beyond the five year time prescribed by the use of hormonal treatments as the standard of care.
- the hormonal treatment is Tamoxifen and/or aromatase inhibitors.
- Patients without an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference should not be administered a treatment disclosed herein.
- the subject has metastasis or a prognosis to undergo metastasis.
- the metastasis is a bone metastasis.
- the bone metastasis is osteolytic metastasis.
- the sample is a primary tumor tissue sample of the subject.
- the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification or gain obtained in the tumor sample of the subject is compared with the expression level, copy number, amplification or gain of said gene in a control sample.
- the determination of the c-MAF gene expression levels, copy number, amplification or gain must be related to values of a control sample or reference sample. Depending on the type of tumor to be analyzed, the exact nature of the control sample may vary.
- the reference sample is a tumor tissue sample of a subject with breast cancer that has not metastasized, relapsed or reoccurred or that corresponds to the median value of the c-MAF gene expression levels, copy number, amplification or gain measured in a tumor tissue collection in biopsy samples of subjects with breast cancer which has not metastasized, relapsed or reoccurred.
- the methods of the invention comprise in a second step comparing the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification or gain obtained in the tumor sample (including but not limited to a primary tumor biopsy, circulating tumor cells and circulating tumor DNA) from the subject with the expression level of said gene in a control sample.
- the tumor sample including but not limited to a primary tumor biopsy, circulating tumor cells and circulating tumor DNA
- c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification or gain in a tumor tissue sample, a circulating tumor cell or circulating tumor DNA from a subject with breast cancer has been measured and compared with the control sample, if the expression level of said gene is increased with respect to its expression level in the control sample, then it can be concluded that said subject has a positive diagnosis for metastasis or a greater tendency to develop metastasis.
- the determination of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification or gain must be correlated with values of a control sample or reference sample.
- the exact nature of the control sample may vary.
- the reference sample is a tumor tissue sample from a subject with breast cancer that has not metastasized or that corresponds to the median value of the c-MAF gene expression levels measured in a tumor tissue collection in biopsy samples from subjects with breast cancer which have not metastasized.
- Said reference sample is typically obtained by combining equal amounts of samples from a subject population.
- the typical reference samples will be obtained from subjects who are clinically well documented and in whom the absence of metastasis is well characterized.
- the normal concentrations (reference concentration) of the biomarker (c-MAF gene) can be determined, for example by providing the mean concentration over the reference population.
- considerations are taken into account when determining the reference concentration of the marker. Among such considerations are the age, weight, sex, general physical condition of the patient and the like.
- equal amounts of a group of at least about 2, at least about 10, at least about 20, at least about 25, at least about 50, at least about 75, at least about 100, at least about 250, at least about 500, to more than 1000 subjects, classified according to the foregoing considerations, for example according to various age categories, are taken as the reference group.
- the sample collection from which the reference level is derived will preferably be formed by subjects suffering from the same type of cancer as the patient object of the study (e.g., breast cancer).
- the reference value within a cohort of patients can be established using a receiving operating curve (ROC) and measuring the area under the curve for all de sensitivity and specificity pairs to determine which pair provides the best values and what the corresponding reference value is.
- ROC is a standard statistical concept. A description can be found in Stuart G. Baker “The Central Role of Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves in Evaluating Tests for the Early Detection of Cancer” Journal of The National Cancer Institute (2003) Vol 95, No. 7, 511-515.
- the level of this marker expressed in tumor tissues from patients with this median value can be compared and thus be assigned, for example, to the “increased” expression level. Due to the variability among subjects (for example, aspects referring to age, race, etc.) it is very difficult (if not virtually impossible) to establish absolute reference values of c-MAF expression. Thus, in particular embodiments the reference values for “increased” or “reduced” expression of the c-MAF expression are determined by calculating the percentiles by conventional means which involves performing assays in one or several samples isolated from subjects whose disease is well documented by any of the methods mentioned above the c-MAF expression levels.
- the “reduced” levels of c-MAF can then preferably be assigned to samples wherein the c-MAF expression levels are equal to or lower than 50 th percentile in the normal population including, for example, expression levels equal to or lower than the 60 th percentile in the normal population, equal to or lower than the 70 th percentile in the normal population, equal to or lower than the 80 th percentile in the normal population, equal to or lower than the 90 th percentile in the normal population, and equal to or lower than the 95 th percentile in the normal population.
- the “increased” c-MAF gene expression levels can then preferably be assigned to samples wherein the c-MAF gene expression levels are equal to or greater than the 50 th percentile in the normal population including, for example, expression levels equal to or greater than the 60 th percentile in the normal population, equal to or greater than the 70 th percentile in the normal population, equal to or greater than the 80 th percentile in the normal population, equal to or greater than the 90 th percentile in the normal population, and equal to or greater than the 95 th percentile in the normal population.
- the degree of amplification or gain of the c-MAF gene can be determined by means of determining the amplification or gain of a chromosome region containing said gene.
- the chromosome region the amplification or gain of which is indicative of the existence of amplification or gain of the c-MAF gene is the locus 16q22-q24 which includes the c-MAF gene.
- the locus 16q22-q24 is located in chromosome 16, in the long arm of said chromosome and in a range between band 22 and band 24. This region corresponds in the NCBI database with the contigs NT_010498.15 and NT_010542.15.
- the degree of amplification or gain of the c-MAF gene can be determined by means of using a probe specific for said gene.
- the control sample refers to a tumor sample of a subject with breast cancer who has not suffered metastasis or that correspond to the median value of the c-MAF gene copy number measured in a tumor tissue collection in biopsy samples of subjects with breast cancer who have not suffered metastasis.
- Said reference sample is typically obtained by combining equal amounts of samples from a subject population. If the c-MAF gene copy number is increased with respect to the copy number of said gene in the control sample, then subject has a positive diagnosis for metastasis or a greater tendency to develop metastasis.
- the copy number is determined as the average copy number per cell.
- the amplification or gain is in region at the 16q23 locus. In some embodiments, the amplification or gain is in any part of the chromosomal region between Chr. 16-79,392,959 bp to 79,663,806 bp (from centromere to telomere). In some embodiments, the amplification or gain is in the genomic region between Chr. 16-79,392,959 bp to 79,663,806 bp, but excluding DNA repeating elements. In some embodiments, amplification or gain is measured using a probe specific for that region.
- the c-MAF gene is amplified with respect to a reference gene copy number when the c-MAF gene copy number is higher than the copy number that a reference sample or control sample has.
- the c-MAF gene is said to be “amplified” if the genomic copy number or the average genomic copy number of the c-MAF gene is increased by at least about 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, 6-, 7-, 8-, 9-, 10-, 15-, 20-, 25-, 30-, 35-, 40-, 45-, or 50-fold in a test sample relative to a control sample.
- a c-MAF gene is said to be “amplified” if the genomic copy number or the average genomic copy number of the c-MAF gene per cell is at least about 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 25., 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, and the like.
- the reference gene copy number is the gene copy number in a sample of breast cancer from a subject who has not suffered bone metastasis.
- the amplification or gain is determined by means of in situ hybridization or PCR.
- the chr16q22-24 including the c-MAF gene
- the chr16q22-24, including the c-MAF gene is amplified in breast cancer cells is related to the presence of metastasis, relapse or recurrence the chr16q22-24, including the c-MAF gene, amplification or gain allow making decisions in terms of the most suitable therapy for the subject suffering said cancer.
- the determination of the amplification of the c-MAF gene needs to be correlated with values of a control sample or reference sample that correspond to the level of amplification of the c-MAF gene measured in a tumor tissue sample of a subject with breast cancer who has not suffered metastasis or that correspond to the median value of the amplification of the c-MAF gene measured in a tumor tissue collection in biopsy samples of subjects with breast cancer who have not suffered metastasis.
- Said reference sample is typically obtained by combining equal amounts of samples from a subject population.
- the typical reference samples will be obtained from subjects who are clinically well documented and in whom the absence of metastasis is well characterized.
- the sample collection from which the reference level is derived will preferably be made up of subjects suffering the same type of cancer as the patient object of the study. Once this median value has been established, the level of amplification of c-MAF in tumor tissues of patients can be compared with this median value, and thus, if there is amplification, the subject has a positive diagnosis of metastasis or a greater tendency to develop metastasis.
- the invention relates to determining if the c-MAF gene is translocated in a sample of said subject.
- the translocated gene is from the region at the 16q23 locus. In some embodiments, the translocated gene is from any part of the chromosomal region between Chr. 16-79,392,959 bp to 79,663,806 bp (from centromere to telomere). In some embodiments, the translocated gene is from the genomic region between Chr. 16-79,392,959 bp to 79,663,806 bp, but excluding DNA repeating elements. In some embodiments, the translocation is measured using a probe specific for that region.
- the translocation of the c-MAF gene can be determined by means of determining the translocation of a chromosome region containing said gene.
- the translocation is the t(14,16) translocation.
- the chromosome region that is translocated is from locus 16q22-q24. The locus 16q22-q24 is located in chromosome 16, in the long arm of said chromosome and in a range between band 22 and band 24. This region corresponds in the NCBI database with the contigs NT_010498.15 and NT_010542.15.
- the c-MAF gene translocates to chromosome 14 at the locus 14q32, resulting in the translocation t(14,16)(q32,q23).
- This translocation places the MAF gene next to the strong enhancers in the IgH locus, which, in some cases, leads to overexpression of MAF.
- the translocation of the c-MAF gene can be determined by means of using a probe specific for said translocation.
- One embodiment of the invention comprises a method in which in a first step it is determined if the c-MAF gene is translocated in a sample of a subject.
- the sample is a tumor tissue sample.
- a method of the invention for the prognosis of the tendency to develop bone metastasis in a subject with breast cancer comprises determining the c-MAF gene copy number in a sample of said subject wherein the c-MAF gene is translocated and comparing said copy number with the copy number of a control or reference sample, wherein if the c-MAF copy number is greater with respect to the c-MAF copy number of a control sample, then the subject has a greater tendency to develop bone metastasis.
- ISH in situ hybridization
- FISH fluorescence in situ hybridization
- CISH chromogenic in situ hybridization
- SISH silver in situ hybridization
- genomic comparative hybridization or polymerase chain reaction such as real time quantitative PCR
- the detection of copy number alterations and translocations can be detected through the use of whole genome sequencing, exome sequencing or by the use of any PCR derived technology.
- PCR can be performed on samples of genomic DNA to detect translocation.
- quantitative PCR is used.
- PCR is performed with a primer specific to the c-MAF gene and a primer specific to the IGH promoter region; if a product is produced, translocation has occurred.
- the amplification, gain and copy number of the c-MAF gene are determined after translocation of the c-MAF gene is determined.
- a probe is used to determine if the cell is polyploid for the c-MAF gene.
- a determination of polyploidy is made by determining if there are more than 2 signals from the gene of interest.
- polyploidy is determined by measuring the signal from the probe specific for the gene of interest and comparing it with a centromeric probe or other probe.
- the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, gain or translocation is measured using any method known in the art or described herein.
- the c-MAF protein expression level can be quantified by any conventional method that allows detecting and quantifying said protein in a sample from a subject.
- said protein levels can be quantified, for example, by using antibodies with c-MAF binding capacity (or a fragment thereof containing an antigenic determinant) and the subsequent quantification of the complexes formed.
- the antibodies used in these assays may or may not be labeled.
- markers that can be used include radioactive isotopes, enzymes, fluorophores, chemiluminescence reagents, enzyme substrates or cofactors, enzyme inhibitors, particles, dyes, etc.
- any antibody or reagent that is known to bind to the c-MAF protein with a high affinity can be used for detecting the amount thereof.
- anti-c-MAF protein antibodies on the market which can be used in the context of the present invention, such as for example antibodies ab427, ab55502, ab55502, ab72584, ab76817, ab77071 (Abcam plc, 330 Science Park, Cambridge CB4 OFL, United Kingdom), the 075444 monoclonal antibody (Mouse Anti-Human MAF Azide free Monoclonal antibody, Unconjugated, Clone 6b8) of AbD Serotec, etc.
- anti-c-MAF antibodies such as Abnova Corporation, Bethyl Laboratories, Bioworld Technology, GeneTex, etc.
- the c-MAF protein levels are detected by an antigen binding member or fragment thereof.
- the binding member is an antigen binding molecule or fragment thereof that binds to human c-MAF, wherein the antibody binding molecule or fragment thereof comprises a heavy chain CDR1 at least about 70%, about 75%, about 80%, about 85%, about 90%, about 95%, about 99% or about 100% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 21, and/or a heavy chain CDR2 at least about 70%, about 75%, about 80%, about 85%, about 90%, about 95%, about 99% or about 100% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 22, and/or a heavy chain CDR3 at least about 70%, about 75%, about 80%, about 85%, about 90%, about 95%, about 99% or about 100% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 23; and/or comprising a light chain CDR1 at least about 70%, about 75%, about 80%, about 85%, about 90%,
- the antibody or fragment thereof comprises a VH domain with a sequence that is at least about 70%, at least about 75%, at least about 80%, at least about 85%, at least about 90%, at least about 95%, at least about 99%, at least about 99%, or at least about 100% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 15.
- the antigen binding molecule or fragment thereof comprises a VL domain with a sequence that is at least about 70%, at least about 75%, at least about 80%, at least about 85%, at least about 90%, at least about 95%, at least about 99%, at least about 99%, or at least about 100% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 17.
- the antibody or fragment thereof comprises a heavy chain sequence that is at least about 70%, at least about 75%, at least about 80%, at least about 85%, at least about 90%, at least about 95%, at least about 99%, at least about 99%, or at least about 100% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 14.
- the antibody or fragment thereof comprises a light chain sequence that is at least about 70%, at least about 75%, at least about 80%, at least about 85%, at least about 90%, at least about 95%, at least about 99%, at least about 99%, or at least about 100% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 16.
- the antigen binding molecule or fragment thereof is an antibody.
- the antibody is a rabbit antibody, a mouse antibody, a chimeric antibody or a humanized antibody.
- the present invention is directed to a binding member, functional fragment, antibody or variant thereof that specifically binds to the epitope encoded by SEQ ID NO: 24.
- the antibody is any antibody described in Int'l. Appl. No. PCT/IB2015/059562, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
- the c-MAF protein levels are quantified means of western blot, immunohistochemistry, ELISA or a protein array.
- the gene expression levels can be quantified by measuring the messenger RNA levels of said gene or of the protein encoded by said gene.
- the gene expression level can be quantified by any means known in the art.
- the biological sample can be treated to physically or mechanically break up the tissue or cell structure, releasing the intracellular components into an aqueous or organic solution for preparing nucleic acids.
- the nucleic acids are extracted by means of commercially available methods known by the person skilled in the art (Sambroock, J., et al., “Molecular cloning: a Laboratory Manual”, 3rd ed., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, N.Y., Vol. 1-3.)
- the c-MAF gene expression level can be quantified from the RNA resulting from the transcription of said gene (messenger RNA or mRNA) or, alternatively, from the complementary DNA (cDNA) of said gene. Therefore, in a particular embodiment of the invention, the quantification of the c-MAF gene expression levels comprises the quantification of the messenger RNA of the c-MAF gene or a fragment of said mRNA, complementary DNA of the c-MAF gene or a fragment of said cDNA or the mixture thereof.
- any conventional method can be used within the scope of the invention for detecting and quantifying the mRNA levels encoded by the c-MAF gene or of the corresponding cDNA thereof.
- the mRNA levels encoded by said gene can be quantified using conventional methods, for example, methods comprising mRNA amplification and the quantification of said mRNA amplification product, such as electrophoresis and staining, or alternatively, by Southern blot and using suitable probes, Northern blot and using specific probes of the mRNA of the gene of interest (c-MAF) or of the corresponding cDNA thereof, mapping with S1 nuclease, RT-PCR, hybridization, microarrays, etc., preferably by means of real time quantitative PCR using a suitable marker.
- methods comprising mRNA amplification and the quantification of said mRNA amplification product, such as electrophoresis and staining, or alternatively, by Southern blot and using suitable probes, Northern blot and using specific probes
- the cDNA levels corresponding to the mRNA encoded by the c-MAF gene can also be quantified by means of using conventional techniques; in this case, the method of the invention includes a step for synthesizing the corresponding cDNA by means of reverse transcription (RT) of the corresponding mRNA followed by the amplification and quantification of said cDNA amplification product.
- RT reverse transcription
- Conventional methods for quantifying expression levels can be found, for example, in Sambrook et al., 2001. (cited ad supra). These methods are known in the art and a person skilled in the art would be familiar with the normalizations necessary for each technique.
- the expression measurements generated using multiplex PCR should be normalized by comparing the expression of the genes being measured to so called “housekeeping” genes, the expression of which should be constant over all samples, thus providing a baseline expression to compare against or other control genes whose expression are known to be modulated with cancer.
- the c-MAF gene expression levels are quantified by means of quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) or a DNA, RNA array, or nucleotide hybridization technique.
- PCR quantitative polymerase chain reaction
- the c-MAF gene expression level can also be quantified by means of quantifying the expression levels of the protein encoded by said gene, i.e., the c-MAF protein (c-MAF) [NCBI, accession number 075444], or any functionally equivalent variant of the c-MAF protein.
- c-MAF c-MAF protein
- the c-MAF gene expression level can be quantified by means of quantifying the expression levels of any of the c-MAF protein isoforms.
- the quantification of the levels of the protein encoded by the c-MAF gene comprises the quantification of the c-MAF protein.
- ISH in situ hybridization
- FISH fluorescence in situ hybridization
- CISH chromogenic in situ hybridization
- SISH silver in situ hybridization
- genomic comparative hybridization or polymerase chain reaction such as real time quantitative PCR
- FISH fluorescence in situ hybridization
- a fluorescent molecule or a hapten typically in the form of fluor-dUTP, digoxigenin-dUTP, biotin-dUTP or hapten-dUTP which is incorporated in the DNA using enzymatic reactions, such as nick translation or PCR.
- the sample containing the genetic material (the chromosomes) is placed on glass slides and is denatured by a formamide treatment.
- the labeled probe is then hybridized with the sample containing the genetic material under suitable conditions which will be determined by the person skilled in the art. After the hybridization, the sample is viewed either directly (in the case of a probe labeled with fluorine) or indirectly (using fluorescently labeled antibodies to detect the hapten).
- the probe is labeled with digoxigenin, biotin or fluorescein and is hybridized with the sample containing the genetic material in suitable conditions.
- ISH in situ hybridization
- FISH fluorescence in situ hybridization
- CISH chromogenic in situ hybridization
- SISH silver in situ hybridization
- genomic comparative hybridization or polymerase chain reaction such as real time quantitative PCR
- the detection of copy number alterations and translocations can be detected through the use of whole genome sequencing, exome sequencing or by the use of any PCR derived technology.
- PCR can be performed on samples of genomic DNA to detect translocation.
- quantitative PCR is used.
- PCR is performed with a primer specific to the c-MAF gene and a primer specific to the IGH promoter region; if a product is produced, translocation has occurred.
- any marking or labeling molecule which can bind to a DNA can be used to label the probes used in the methods of the invention, thus allowing the detection of nucleic acid molecules.
- labels for the labeling include, although not limited to, radioactive isotopes, enzyme substrates, cofactors, ligands, chemiluminescence agents, fluorophores, haptens, enzymes and combinations thereof. Methods for labeling and guideline for selecting suitable labels for different purposes can be found, for example, in Sambrook et al. (Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 1989) and Ausubel et al. (In Current Protocols in Molecular Biology, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1998).
- a probe of the invention is a dual color probe. In some embodiments, a probe of the invention is a dual fusion probe. In some embodiments, a probe of the invention is a dual color, dual fusion probe. In some embodiments, two separate probes are used.
- one of the following probes is used to measure the c-MAF gene (including translation of the c-MAF gene): the Vysis LSI IGH/MAF Dual Color dual fusion probe, which comprises a probe against 14q32 and 16q23; a Kreatech diagnostics MAF/IGH gt(14;16) Fusion probe, an Abnova MAF FISH probe, a Cancer Genetics Italia IGH/MAF Two Color, Two Fusion translocation probe, a Creative Bioarray IGH/MAF-t(14;16)(q32;q23) FISH probe, a Arup Laboratories multiple myeloma panel by FISH, an Agilent probe specific to 16q23 or 14q32, a Dako probe specific to 16q23 or 14q32, a Cytocell IGH/MAF Translocation, Dual Fusion Probe, a Metasystems XL IGH/MAF Translocation—Dual Fusion Probe, a Zeiss FISH Probes XL, 100 ⁇ l
- the label on the probe is a fluorophore.
- the fluorophore on the probe is orange.
- the fluorophore on the probe is green.
- the fluorophore on the probe is red.
- the fluorophore on the probe is yellow.
- one probe is labeled with a red fluorophore, and one with a green fluorophore.
- one probe is labeled with a green fluorophore and one with an orange fluorophore.
- the fluorophore on the probe is yellow. For instance, if the MAF-specific probe is labeled with a red fluorophore, and the IGH-specific probe is labeled with a green fluorophore, if white is seen it indicates that the signals overlap and translocation has occurred.
- the fluorophore is SpectrumOrange. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is SpectrumGreen. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is DAPI. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is PlatinumBright405 In some embodiments, the fluorophore is PlatinumBright415. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is PlatinumBright495. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is PlatinumBright505. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is PlatinumBright550. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is PlatinumBright547. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is PlatinumBright570. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is PlatinumBright590.
- the fluorophore is PlatinumBright647. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is PlatinumBright495/550. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is PlatinumBright415/495/550. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is DAPI/PlatinumBright495/550. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is FITC. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is Texas Red. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is DEAC. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is R6G. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is Cy5. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is FITC, Texas Red and DAPI. In some embodiments, a DAPI counterstain is used to visualize the translocation, amplification, gain or copy number alteration.
- the methods of the invention herein include treating subjects with agents for avoiding or preventing bone remodelling.
- an “agent for avoiding or preventing bone remodelling” refers to any molecule capable of treating or stopping bone degradation either by stimulating the osteoblast proliferation or inhibiting the osteoclast proliferation, including agents for avoiding or preventing bone degradation.
- the agent for avoiding or preventing bone remodeling is a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation.
- agents used for avoiding and/or preventing bone degradation include, although not limited to:
- the RANKL inhibitor is selected from the group consisting of a RANKL specific antibody, a RANKL specific nanobody and osteoprotegerin.
- the anti-RANKL antibody is a monoclonal antibody.
- the anti-RANKL antibody is Denosumab (Pageau, Steven C. (2009). mAbs 1 (3): 210-215, CAS number 615258-40-7) (the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference). Denosumab is a fully human monoclonal antibody which binds to RANKL and prevents its activation (it does not bind to the RANK receptor).
- Denosumab is a fully human monoclonal antibody which binds to RANKL and prevents its activation (it does not bind to the RANK receptor).
- the RANKL inhibitor an antibody, antibody fragment, or fusion construct that binds the same epitope as Denosumab.
- the anti-RANKL nanobody is any of the nanobodies as described in WO2008142164, (the contents of which are incorporated in the present application by reference).
- the anti-RANKL antibody is the ALX-0141 (Ablynx). ALX-0141 has been designed to inhibit bone loss associated with post-menopausal osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer and certain medications, and to restore the balance of healthy bone metabolism.
- the agent preventing the bone degradation is selected from the group consisting of a bisphosphonate, a RANKL inhibitor, PTH and PTHLH inhibitor or a PRG analog, strontium ranelate, a DKK-1 inhibitor, a dual MET and VEGFR2 inhibitor, an estrogen receptor modulator, Radium-223, calcitonin, and a cathepsin K inhibitor.
- the agent preventing the bone degradation is a bisphosphonate.
- the bisphosphonate is zoledronic acid.
- a CCR5 antagonist is administered to prevent or inhibit metastasis of the primary breast cancer tumor to bone or relapse or recurrence.
- the CCR5 antagonist is a large molecule.
- the CCR5 antagonist is a small molecule.
- the CCR5 antagonist is Maraviroc.
- the CCR5 antagonist is Vicriviroc.
- the CCR5 antagonist is Aplaviroc.
- the CCR5 antagonist is a spiropiperidine CCR5 antagonist. (Rotstein D. M. et al. 2009. Spiropiperidine CCR5 antagonists. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 19 (18): 5401-5406.
- the CCR5 antagonist is INCB009471 (Kuritzkes, D. R. 2009. HIV-1 entry inhibitors: an overview. Curr. Opin. HIV AIDS. 4(2): 82-7).
- the dual MET and VEGFR2 inhibitor is selected from the group consisting of Cabozantinib, Foretinib and E7050.
- the MAF status is predictive of the treatments that should be received by the subject.
- the c-MAF status in any of the embodiments herein includes 16923 or 16922-24 chromosomal locus amplification, copy gain or translocation or lack thereof, or 16q23 or 16q22-24 chromosomal locus deletions.
- post-menopausal patients with an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference may be administered any treatment disclosed herein.
- post menopausal patients with an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference may be treated by extending their hormonal treatment beyond the five year time prescribed by the use of hormonal treatments as the standard of care.
- the hormonal treatment is Tamoxifen and/or aromatase inhibitors.
- Patients without an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference should not be administered a treatment disclosed herein.
- the treatment is an mTor inhibitor.
- the mTor inhibitor is a dual mTor/PI3kinase inhibitor.
- the mTor inhibitor is used to prevent or inhibit metastasis, relapse or recurrence.
- the mTor inhibitor is selected from the group consisting of: ABI009 (sirolimus), rapamycin (sirolimus), Abraxane (paclitaxel), Absorb (everolimus), Afinitor (everolimus), Afinitor with Gleevec, AS703026 (pimasertib), Axxess (umirolimus), AZD2014, BEZ235, Biofreedom (umirolimus), BioMatrix (umirolimus), BioMatrix flex (umirolimus), CC115, CC223, Combo Bio-engineered Sirolimus Eluting Stent ORBUSNEICH (sirolimus), Curaxin CBLC102 (mepacrine), DE109 (sirolimus), DS3078, Endeavor DES (zotarolimus), Endeavor Resolute (zotarolimus), Femara (letrozole), Hocena (antroquinonol), INK128, Inspir
- the mTor inhibitor is Afinitor (everolimus).
- mTor inhibitors can be identified through methods known in the art. (See, e.g., Zhou, H. et al. Updates of mTor inhibitors. 2010 . Anticancer Agents Med. Chem. 10(7): 571-81, which is herein incorporated by reference).
- the mTor inhibitor is used to treat or prevent or inhibit metastasis in a patient that is positive for a hormone receptor. (See. e.g., Baselga, J., el al., Everolimus in Postmenopausal Hormone-Receptor Positive Advanced Breast Cancer. 2012 . N. Engl. J. Med.
- the mTor inhibitor is used to treat or prevent or inhibit metastasis in a patient with advanced breast cancer. In some aspects, the mTor inhibitor is used in combination with a second treatment. In some aspects, the second treatment is any treatment described herein.
- the treatment is a Src kinase inhibitor.
- the Src inhibitor is used to prevent or inhibit metastasis, relapse or recurrence.
- the Src kinase inhibitor is selected from the group: AZD0530 (saracatinib), Bosulif (bosutinib), ENMD981693, KD020, KX01, Sprycel (dasatinib), Yervoy (ipilimumab), AP23464, AP23485, AP23588, AZD0424, c-Src Kinase Inhibitor KISSEI, CU201, KX2361, SKS927, SRN004, SUNK706, TG100435, TG100948, AP23451, Dasatinib HETERO (dasatinib), Dasatinib VALEANT (dasatinib), Fontrax (dasatinib), Src Kin
- the Src kinase inhibitor is dasatinib.
- Src kinase inhibitors can be identified through methods known in the art (See, e.g., Sen, B. and Johnson, F. M. Regulation of Src Family Kinases in Human Cancers. 2011 . J. Signal Transduction. 2011: 14 pages, which is herein incorporated by reference).
- the Src kinase inhibitor is used to treat or prevent or inhibit metastasis, relapse or recurrence in a patient that is positive for the SRC-responsive signature (SRS).
- the patient is SRS+ and ER ⁇ . (See. e.g., Zhang, CH.-F, et al.
- the Src kinase inhibitor is used to treat or prevent or inhibit metastasis in a patient with advanced breast cancer.
- the Src kinase inhibitor is used in combination with a second treatment.
- the second treatment is any treatment described herein.
- the treatment is a COX-2 inhibitor.
- the COX-2 inhibitor is used to prevent or inhibit metastasis, relapse or recurrence.
- the COX-2 inhibitor is selected from the group: ABT963, Acetaminophen ER JOHNSON (acetaminophen), Acular X (ketorolac tromethamine), BAY1019036 (aspirin), BAY987111 (diphenhydramine, naproxen sodium), BAYl1902 (piroxicam), BCIBUCH001 (ibuprofen), Capoxigem (apricoxib), CS502, CS670 (pelubiprofen), Diclofenac HPBCD (diclofenac), Diractin (ketoprofen), GW406381, HCT1026 (nitroflurbiprofen), Hyanalgese-D (diclofenac), HydrocoDex (acetaminophen, dextromethorphan, hydrocodon
- COX-2 inhibitors can be identified through methods known in the art (See, e.g., Dannhardt, G. and Kiefer, W. Cyclooxygenase inhibitors—current status and future prospects. 2001 . Eur. J. Med. Chem. 36: 109-126, which is herein incorporated by reference).
- the COX-2 inhibitor is used to treat or prevent or inhibit metastasis in a patient with advanced breast cancer.
- the COX-2 inhibitor is used in combination with a second treatment.
- the second treatment is any treatment described herein.
- the COX-2 inhibitor is used in combination with a second treatment selected from the group consisting of: Denosumab, Zometa, Carbozantinib or Cabozantinib, Antibody or peptide blocking PTHLH (parathyroid hormone like hormone) or PTHrP (parathyroid hormone related protein).
- a second treatment selected from the group consisting of: Denosumab, Zometa, Carbozantinib or Cabozantinib, Antibody or peptide blocking PTHLH (parathyroid hormone like hormone) or PTHrP (parathyroid hormone related protein).
- the treatment is Radium 223.
- the Radium 223 therapy is Alpharadin (aka, Xofigo) (radium-223 dichloride).
- Alpharadin uses alpha radiation from radium-223 decay to kill cancer cells.
- Radium-223 naturally self-targets to bone metastases by virtue of its properties as a calcium-mimic.
- Alpha radiation has a very short range of 2-10 cells (when compared to current radiation therapy which is based on beta or gamma radiation), and therefore causes less damage to surrounding healthy tissues (particularly bone marrow). With similar properties to calcium, radium-223 is drawn to places where calcium is used to build bone in the body, including the site of faster, abnormal bone growth.
- Radium-223 after injection, is carried in the bloodstream to sites of abnormal bone growth.
- the place where a cancer starts in the body is known as the primary tumor.
- Some of these cells may break away and be carried in the bloodstream to another part of the body.
- the cancer cells may then settle in that part of the body and form a new tumor. If this happens it is called a secondary cancer or a metastasis.
- the aim with radium-223 is to selectively target this secondary cancer. Any radium-223 not taken-up in the bones is quickly routed to the gut and excreted.
- the treatment is a CDK4/6 inhibitor.
- the CDK4/6 inhibitor is selected from any known CDK4/6 inhibitors.
- the CDK4/6 inhibitor is Palbociclib (PD-0332991), Ribociclib (LEE011), or Abemaciclib (LY2835219). The use of CDK4/6 inhibitors is described in Finn et al. Breast Cancer Research 18:17 (2016).
- a combined treatment can be carried out in which more than one agent from those mentioned above are combined to treat and/or prevent the metastasis, relapse or recurrence or said agents can be combined with other supplements, such as calcium or vitamin D or with a hormone treatment.
- MAF positive postmenopausal patients at high risk of DFS or bad OS outcome are treated in the adjuvant setting with any therapy to improve the outcome of the patients.
- These therapies include any therapy disclosed herein, including agents for avoiding or preventing bone remodeling, agents to improve disease free survival or overall survival, c-MAF inhibitory agents, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, m-Tor inhibitors, CDK4/6 inhibitors, Radium-223, a CCR5 antagonist, a Src kinase inhibitor, or a COX-2 inhibitor and combinations thereof.
- Patients who are not MAF positive should not be administered such agents or therapies.
- systemic treatments including but not limited to chemotherapy, hormone treatment, immunotherapy, or a combination thereof are used. Additionally, radiotherapy and/or surgery can be used.
- the choice of treatment generally depends on the type of primary cancer, the size, the location of the metastasis, the age, the general health of the patient and the types of treatments used previously.
- the systemic treatments are those that reach the entire body:
- the agents for avoiding or preventing bone remodelling are typically administered in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
- carrier refers to a diluent or an excipient whereby the active ingredient is administered.
- Such pharmaceutical carriers can be sterile liquids such as water and oil, including those of a petroleum, animal, plant or synthetic origin such peanut oil, soy oil, mineral oil, sesame oil and the like.
- Water or aqueous saline solutions and aqueous dextrose and glycerol solutions, particularly for injectable solutions, are preferably used as carriers.
- Suitable pharmaceutical carriers are described in “Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences” by E. W. Martin, 1995.
- the carriers of the invention are approved by the state or federal government regulatory agency or are listed in the United States Pharmacopeia or other pharmacopeia generally recognized for use thereof in animals and more particularly in human beings.
- the carriers and auxiliary substances necessary for manufacturing the desired pharmaceutical dosage form of the pharmaceutical composition of the invention will depend, among other factors, on the pharmaceutical dosage form chosen.
- Said pharmaceutical dosage forms of the pharmaceutical composition will be manufactured according to the conventional methods known by the person skilled in the art. A review of the different methods for administering active ingredients, excipients to be used and processes for producing them can be found in “Tratado de Farmacia Galénica”, C. Faul ⁇ i Trillo, Luzán 5, S. A. 1993 Edition.
- Examples of pharmaceutical compositions include any solid composition (tablets, pills, capsules, granules, etc.) or liquid composition (solutions, suspensions or emulsions) for oral, topical or parenteral administration.
- the pharmaceutical composition may contain, as deemed necessary, stabilizers, suspensions, preservatives, surfactants and the like.
- the bone remodelling agents can be found in the form of a prodrug, salt, solvate or clathrate, either isolated or in combination with additional active agents and can be formulated together with a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient.
- Excipients preferred for use thereof in the present invention include sugars, starches, celluloses, rubbers and proteins.
- the pharmaceutical composition of the invention will be formulated in a solid pharmaceutical dosage form (for example tablets, capsules, pills, granules, suppositories, sterile crystal or amorphous solids that can be reconstituted to provide liquid forms etc.), liquid pharmaceutical dosage form (for example solutions, suspensions, emulsions, elixirs, lotions, ointments etc.) or semisolid pharmaceutical dosage form (gels, ointments, creams and the like).
- a solid pharmaceutical dosage form for example tablets, capsules, pills, granules, suppositories, sterile crystal or amorphous solids that can be reconstituted to provide liquid forms etc.
- liquid pharmaceutical dosage form for example solutions, suspensions, emulsions, elixirs, lotions, ointments etc.
- semisolid pharmaceutical dosage form gels, ointments, creams and the like.
- compositions of the invention can be administered by any route, including but not limited to the oral route, intravenous route, intramuscular route, intraarterial route, intramedularry route, intrathecal route, intraventricular router, transdermal route, subcutaneous route, intraperitoneal route, intranasal route, enteric route, topical route, sublingual route or rectal route.
- routes including but not limited to the oral route, intravenous route, intramuscular route, intraarterial route, intramedularry route, intrathecal route, intraventricular router, transdermal route, subcutaneous route, intraperitoneal route, intranasal route, enteric route, topical route, sublingual route or rectal route.
- compositions comprising said carriers can be formulated by conventional processes known in the state of the art.
- the bone remodelling-avoiding and preventing agents or the pharmaceutical compositions containing them can be administered at a dose of less than 10 mg per kilogram of body weight, preferably less than at least about 50, 40, 30, 20, 10, 5, 2, 1, 0.5, 0.1, 0.05, 0.01, 0.005, 0.001, 0.0005, 0.0001, 0.00005 or 0.00001 mg per kg of body weight.
- the unit dose can be administered by injection, inhalation or topical administration.
- the agent is administered at its approved dose.
- the dose depends on the severity and the response of the condition to be treated and it may vary between several days and months or until the condition subsides.
- the optimal dosage can be determined by periodically measuring the concentrations of the agent in the body of the patient.
- the optimal dose can be determined from the EC50 values obtained by means of previous in vitro or in vivo assays in animal models.
- the unit dose can be administered once a day or less than once a day, preferably less than once every 2, 4, 8 or 30 days. Alternatively, it is possible to administer a starting dose followed by one or several maintenance doses, generally of a lesser amount than the starting dose.
- the maintenance regimen may involve treating the patient with a dose ranging between 0.01 ⁇ g and 1.4 mg/kg of body weight per day, for example 10, 1, 0.1, 0.01, 0.001, or 0.00001 mg per kg of body weight per day.
- the maintenance doses are preferably administered at the most once every 5, 10 or 30 days.
- the treatment must be continued for a time that will vary according to the type of disorder the patient suffers, the severity thereof and the condition of the patient. After treatment, the progress of the patient must be monitored to determine if the dose should be increased in the event that the disease does not respond to the treatment or the dose is reduced if an improvement of the disease is observed or if unwanted side effects are observed.
- the invention in another aspect relates to a kit for determining a therapy for a subject suffering from breast cancer, the kit comprising: a) means for quantifying the expression level, copy number, amplification, gain or translocation of c-MAF in a sample of said subject; b) means for comparing the quantified expression level, copy number, amplification, gain or translocation of c-MAF in said sample to a reference c-MAF expression level; and c) means for determining a therapy or excluding a therapy from consideration for said subject based on the comparison of the quantified expression level to the reference expression level.
- Means for quantifying the expression level of c-MAF in a sample of said subject have been previously described in detail including 16q23 and 16q22-24 locus amplification, gain and/or translocation.
- the means for quantifying the c-MAF expression is any antibody, antigen binding molecule or fragment described herein.
- the antibody is any antibody described in Int'l Appl. No. PCT/IB2015/059562, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
- means for quantifying expression comprise a set of probes and/or primers that specifically bind and/or amplify the c-MAF gene.
- the invention in another aspect, relates to a method for classifying a subject suffering from breast cancer into a cohort, comprising: a) determining the expression level, copy number, amplification, gain or translocation of c-MAF in a sample of said subject; b) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification, gain or translocation 1 of c-MAF in said sample to a predetermined reference level of c-MAF expression; and c) classifying said subject into a cohort based on said expression level, copy number, amplification, gain or translocation of c-MAF in the sample.
- the c-MAF gene expression level is used to stratify patients into groups for treatment based on their c-MAF expression level.
- patients with a high c-MAF expression level receive a different treatment than patients with a low c-MAF expression level.
- the patients are futher stratified based on their menopausal status.
- the patients are stratified based on whether they are post-menopausal or non-post-menopausal.
- the subjects are administered different treatments based on their c-MAF expression levels and/or their post-menopausal or non-post-menopausal status.
- the stratified patients are administered an agent that avoids or prevents bone remodelling.
- the agent that avoids or prevents bone remodeling is an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation.
- the agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation is zoledronic acid.
- the c-MAF gene expression level is used to select patients for treatment.
- the patients are stratified into groups for clinical trials.
- Means for quantifying the expression level of c-MAF in a sample of said subject have been previously described in detail including 16q23 and 16922-24 locus amplification, gain and/or translocation.
- said cohort is for conducting a clinical trial.
- the sample is a tumor tissue sample.
- the IHC and FISH assays used to test c-MAF in the AZURE samples were analytically validated. An overview of the assay validation parameters can be seen in FIG. 1 .
- the MAF FISH assay was produced by Kreatech for Inbiomotion based on KREATECH proprietary FISH technology.
- the probe set contains two probes: a MAF 16q23 probe plus a D16Z3 probe as control of chromosome 16 centromeric region.
- the assay was validated using a 16q23/D16Z3 probe (Inbiomotion) and Poseidon Tissue Digestion Kit from Kreatech.
- the scoring criteria were defined in a fact sheet and as follows: two FISH evaluable results per patient, and the highest value was selected.
- the scoring algorithm was as follows: 20 cells counted for target and centromere amplification, if the gene count is >2 and ⁇ 3, then 50 cells were counted.
- the MAF IHC assay was based on a recombinant monoclonal antibody (described in Int'l Appl. No. PCT/IB2015/059562, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety). The antibody was selected based on IHC. The assay was validated using MAF RecMab (Inbiomotion) with DAKO AS LINK platform and protocol on control specimens provided by Inbiomotion. The scoring criterion was defined upfront in a fact sheet, and there was one single IHC Hscore per patient. The scoring algorithm was the H-score.
- FIG. 2 An overview of the AZURE clinical trial (Coleman et al N Eng J Med 2011; 365: 1396-1405 and AZURE Current Controlled Trials number, ISRCTN79831382 and ClinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT00072020) study design, whose patients were used to validate MAF, is provided in FIG. 2 .
- MAF was validated in a retrospective analysis of the AZURE trial using patient tumor sample prospectively collected under regulatory compliant conditions. Out of the 3360 patients recruited, 1,769 donated tumor tissue (52.4%). There were 13 TMAs (tissue micro array) (150 patient samples each) (1,769 patients). There were 4 replicas of each TMA using different tissue cores (6,326 (4 ⁇ patient)).
- TMA had only 1 replica and two TMAs had three replicas.
- H&E analysis hematoxilyin and eosin ( FIG. 3 ) (6,326): 3978 cores were evaluable (63%) and 2348 were nonevaluable.
- IHC assay For the IHC assay, a pathologist evaluation and a VisoPharm computer assisted evaluation were performed. For the pathologist evaluation, 2,232 cores were evaluated (59% evaluable for HScore). There were 1390 patients with an IHC HScore (74%), representing 39% of the total AZURE patients. There were 460 patients that were non-evaluable by IHC in any of the four replicas. In the VisioPharm computer assisted IHC staining evaluation, 1299 IHC patients were evaluated out of 1309 scored by pathologists for HScore and mean staining per nuclei. The MAF positivity rate can be seen in FIGS. 4 A and 4 B .
- DFS disease-free survival
- IDFS invasive disease-free survival
- OS overall survival
- first recurrence in bone bone recurrence at any time, time to first DFS event in bone, time to first DFS event not in bone, response to zoledronic acid treatment.
- the patients from the control and treatment arms were pooled for the initial analysis. Optimized cut-offs for each variable to be analyzed were used when indicated. Death as a competing event was used in time to bone metastasis, anytime.
- the following clinical variables were analyzed: time to bone metastasis (anytime), time to bone metastasis (as first event), IDFS (including ipsilateral invasive breast tumor recurrence, regional invasive breast cancer recurrence, metastatic disease-breast cancer, death attributable to any cause, including breast cancer, contralateral invasive breast cancer, second primary non-breast invasive cancer), and overall survival.
- FIG. 11 shows the time to IDFS (excluding bone recurrence) by FISH in AZURE control patients only. An optimized cutoff of 2.2 was used.
- the predefined cut off to stratify patients according to their MAF FISH level was very close to the optimized computer based defined cutoffs.
- the threshold effect allows for the delineation of clear groups for appropriate (related) treatment (or avoidance of treatment).
- control and zoledronic acid treatment arms from the AZURE study described in Example 1 were evaluated to determine the effect of zoledronic acid treatment on MAF-stratified patients.
- FIGS. 13 A- 13 B (Coleman et al Lancet Oncol 2014; 15: 997-1006, FIG. 3 ) shows the time to bone metastasis in patients in the control arm and in the zoledronic acid treatment arm of the Azure trial.
- Zoledronic acid treatment reduced the differences in incidence of bone as first site of recurrence between MAF positive and non-positive patients, and there was no significant difference in the risk of bone metastasis at any time in MAF positive compared to MAF non-positive patients treated with zoledronic acid.
- FIGS. 15 A- 15 B shows an analysis of disease (DFS) and invasive disease (IDFS) free survival between the control arm and the zoledronic acid treated patients in the AZURE trial.
- DFS disease
- IDFS invasive disease
- FIG. 16 shows the time to distant recurrence between the control arm and the zoledronic acid treated patients.
- FIGS. 19 A- 19 B shows the IDFS by menopausal status of the AZURE trial when patients are not stratified according to MAF (Coleman et al Lancet Oncol 2014; 15: 997-1006, FIG. 5 ).
- FIG. 20 shows the time to a bone metastatic event (anytime) using death as a competiting event according to MAF copy number (data according to a pre-specified cut off of 2.5) in postmenopausal patients.
- FIG. 21 shows the time to a bone metastatic event (anytime) according to MAF copy number (data according to a pre-specified cut off of 2.5) in non-post menopausal patients.
- FIG. 22 shows the IDFS of the zoledronic acid treatment arm and the control arm, excluding bone metastasis of post-menopausal women.
- FIG. 23 shows the IDFS of the zoledronic acid treatment arm and the control arm, excluding bone metastasis of non-post-menopausal women.
- FIG. 24 shows the overall survival (OS) by treatment arm.
- OS overall survival
- FIG. 25 shows the prognosis of disease free survival (DFS) in the AZURE control arm.
- DFS disease free survival
- FIG. 25 shows the prognosis of disease free survival (DFS) in the AZURE control arm.
- FIG. 25 shows the prognosis of disease free survival (DFS) in the AZURE control arm.
- FIG. 25 shows the prognosis of disease free survival (DFS) in the AZURE control arm.
- DFS disease free survival
- FIG. 27 shows the impact of zoledronic acid treatment on DFS according to the MAF FISH value. As can be seen in FIG. 27 , zoledronic acid treatment produces a differential DFS outcome between MAF FISH positive and negative patients, and these differences take place in post and non-post menopausal women.
- FIG. 28 shows the impact of zoledronic acid treatment on DFS according to the MAF FISH value on postmenopausal patients.
- FIG. 29 shows the impact of zoledronic acid treatment on the DFS of non-post-menopoausal women.
- zoledronic acid treatment produces the worst DFS outcome in MAF positive non-post-menopausal patients.
- FIG. 30 shows the impact of zoledronic acid treatment on overall survival according to the MAF FISH value. As can be seen in FIG.
- FIG. 32 shows the impact of zoledronic acid treatment on the overall survival of non-postmenopausal women according to MAF FISH value. As can be seen in FIG. 32 , zoledronic acid treatment produces the worst overall survival outcome in MAF positive non-post menopausal patients.
- MAF is predictive in postmenopausal, unknown and perimenopausl patients at risk of a shorter DFS or worst OS.
- MAF positive patients are those at less risk and are more likely to have a longer DFS and better OS.
- MAF FISH positive patients who are not treated with zoledronic acid have a higher risk of bone metastasis and Invasive Disease (reduced IDFS including and excluding bone events).
- IDFS including an excluding bone events
- MAF negative patients treated with zoledronic acid have a better outcome compared to untreated patients with regard to bone metastasis at any time risk.
- post-menopausal women there is a better outcome with regard to IDFS (excluding bone) in MAF positive patients treated with zoledronic acid.
- IDFS including bone
Abstract
The present invention relates to the design of a customized therapy for a subject with breast cancer based on the c-MAF expression level and the menopausal status of the subject. In some embodiments, the customized therapy comprises an agent for avoiding or preventing bone degradation. In some embodiments, the agent for avoiding or preventing bone degradation is zoledronic acid.
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- This application is divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 16/303,945, which is a 35 U.S.C. § 371 National Phase Application of Interantional Application No. PCT/IB2017/053094, filed May 25, 2017, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application Nos. 62/344,836, filed Jun. 2, 2016, and 62/341,333, filed May 25, 2016, the content of each of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
- The content of the electronically submitted sequence listing (Name: 3190_0150003_Seglisting_ST26.xml; Size: 59,076 bytes; and Date of Creation: Jan. 24, 2023) is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety.
- The present invention relates to the design of a customized therapy for a subject with breast cancer, wherein the customized therapy is selected based on the c-MAF expression level, copy number, amplification, gain, or translocation and the menopausal status of the subject. In some embodiments, the customized therapy comprises an agent for avoiding or preventing bone remodelling. In some embodiments, the agent for avoiding or preventing bone remodelling is zoledronic acid.
- Breast cancer is the second most common type of cancer worldwide (10.4%; after lung cancer) and the fifth most common cause of death by cancer (after lung cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, and colon cancer). Among women, breast cancer is the most common cause of death by cancer. In 2005, breast cancer caused 502,000 deaths worldwide (7% of the deaths by cancer; almost 1% of all deaths). The number of cases worldwide has increased significantly from the 1970s, a phenomenon which is partly due to the modern lifestyle in the western world.
- Breast cancer is classified into stages according to the TNM system. (See American Joint Committee on Cancer. AJCC Cancer Staging Manual. 6th ed. New York, NY: Springer, 2002, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.) The prognosis is closely related to the results of the stage classification, and the stage classification is also used to assign patients to treatments both in clinical trials and in the medical practice. The information for classifying into stages is as follow:
- TX: The primary tumor cannot be assessed. T0: there is no evidence of tumor. Tis: in situ carcinoma, no invasion. T1: The tumor is 2 cm or less. T2: The tumor is more than 2 cm but less than 5 cm. T3: The tumor is more than 5 cm. T4: Tumor of any size growing in the wall of the breast or skin, or inflammatory breast cancer.
- NX: The nearby lymph nodes cannot be assessed. N0: The cancer has not spread to the regional lymph nodes. N1: The cancer has spread to 1 to 3 axillary lymph nodes or to one internal mammary lymph node. N2: The cancer has spread to 4 to 9 axillary lymph nodes or to multiple internal mammary lymph nodes. N3: One of the followings applies:
- The cancer has spread to 10 or more axillary lymph nodes, or the cancer has spread to the infraclavicular lymph nodes, or the cancer has spread to the supraclavicular lymph nodes or the cancer affects the axillary lymph nodes and has spread to the internal mammary lymph nodes, or the cancer affects 4 or more axillary lymph nodes and minimum amounts of cancer are in the internal mammary nodes or in sentinel lymph node biopsy.
- MX: The presence of distant spread (metastasis) cannot be assessed. M0: There is no distant spread. M1: spreading to distant organs which do not include the supraclavicular lymph node has been produced.
- The fact that most of the patients with solid tumor cancer die after metastasis means that it is crucial to understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms allowing a tumor to metastasize. Recent publications have demonstrated how the metastasis is caused by means of complex yet little known mechanisms and also how the different metastatic cell types have a tropism towards specific organs These tissue specific metastatic cells have a series of acquired functions allowing them to colonize specific organs.
- All cells have receptors on their surface, in their cytoplasm and in the cell nucleus. Certain chemical messengers such as hormones bind to said receptors and this causes changes in the cell. There are three significant receptors which may affect the breast cancer cells: estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) and HER2/neu. For the purpose of naming the cells having any of these receptors, a positive sign is placed thereto when the receptor is present and a negative sign if it is absent: ER positive (ER+), ER negative (ER−), PR positive (PR+), PR negative (PR−), HER2 positive (HER2+) and HER2 negative (HER2−). The receptor state has become a critical assessment for all breast cancers since it determines the suitability of using specific treatments, for example, tamoxifen or trastuzumab.
- Unsupervised gene expression array profiling has provided biological evidence for the heterogeneity of breast cancer through the identification of intrinsic subtypes such as luminal A, luminal B, HER2+/ER− and the basal-like subtype.
- Triple-negative cancers are defined as tumors that do not express the genes for estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) nor HER2. This subgroup accounts for 15% of all types of breast cancer and for a higher percentage of breast cancer arising in African and African-American women who are premenopausal. Triple negative breast cancers have a relapse pattern that is very different from Estrogen Receptor positive breast cancers: the risk of relapse is much higher for the first 3-5 years but drops sharply and substantially below that of Estrogen Receptor positive breast cancers after that.
- The basal-like subtype is characterized by low expression of both the ER and HER2 clusters of genes, so is typically ER-negative, PR-negative, and HER2-negative on clinical testing; for this reason, it is often referred to as “triple-negative” breast cancer (Breast Cancer Research 2007, 9(Suppl 1):S13). Basal-like cancers express genes usually found in “basal”/myoepithelial cells of the normal breast including high molecular weight cytokeratins (5/6, 14 and 17), P-cadherin,
caveolins - Given that there is no internationally accepted definition for basal-like breast cancers, it is not surprising that there has been a great deal of confusion as to whether triple negative and basal-like breast cancers are synonymous. Although several groups have used these terms interchangeably, it should be noted that not all basal-like cancers lack ER, PR and HER2 and not all triple negative cancers display a basal-like phenotype. The vast majority of triple negative cancers are of basal-like phenotype. Likewise, the vast majority of tumors expressing ‘basal’ markers are triple negative. It should be noted, however, that there is a significant number of triple negative cancers that do not express basal markers and a small, but still significant, subgroup of basal-like cancers that express either hormone receptors or HER2. Bertucci et al. (Int J Cancer. 2008 Jul. 1; 123(1):236-40) have addressed this issue directly and confirmed that not all triple negative tumors when analyzed by gene expression profiling were classified as basal-like cancers (i.e. only 71% were of basal-like phenotype) and not all basal-like breast carcinomas classified by expression arrays displayed a triple negative phenotype (i. e. 77%).
- The keystone for treating breast cancer is surgery when the tumor is localized with possible adjuvant hormone therapy (with tamoxifen or an aromatase inhibitor), chemotherapy, and/or radiotherapy. Currently, the suggestions for treatment after the surgery (adjuvant therapy) follow a pattern. This pattern is subject to change because every two years a world conference takes place in St. Gallen, Switzerland to discuss the actual results of the worldwide multi-center studies. Likewise, said pattern is also reviewed according to the consensus criterion of the National Institute of Health (NIH). Based on in these criteria, more than 85-90% of the patients not having metastasis in lymph nodes would be candidates to receive adjuvant systemic therapy.
- Currently, PCR assays such as Oncotype DX or microarray assays such as MammaPrint can predict the risk of breast cancer relapse based on the expression of specific genes. In February 2007, the MammaPrint assay became the first breast cancer indicator in achieving official authorization from the Food and Drug Administration.
- Patent application EP1961825-A1 describes a method for predicting the occurrence of breast cancer metastasis to bone, lung, liver or brain, which comprises determining in a tumor tissue sample the expression level of one or more markers with respect to their corresponding expression level in a control sample, among which include c-MAF. However, this document requires determining several genes simultaneously to enable determining the survival of breast cancer patients and the correlation between the capacities of the gene signature for predicting the survivability free from bone metastasis was not statistically significant.
- Patent publication U.S. Publ. No. 2011/0150979 describes a method for predicting a prognosis of a basal like breast cancer comprising detecting the level of FOXC1.
- Patent publication U.S. Publ. No. 2010/0210738 relates to a method for prognosing cancer in a subject with triple negative breast cancer comprising detecting in a sample the expression levels of a series of genes which are randomly up-regulated or down-regulated.
- Patent publication U.S. Publ. No. 2011/0130296 relates to the identification of marker genes useful in the diagnosis and prognosis of triple negative breast cancer.
- There is a need for the identification of subsets of patients with breast cancer that will benefit from specific treatments, and, conversely, subsets of patients with breast cancer that will not benefit, or will potentially be harmed, by specific treatments.
- In one embodiment, the present invention relates to an in vitro method for designing a customized therapy for a subject having breast cancer which comprises: i) quantifying the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a sample of said subject and ii) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain obtained in i) with a reference value, wherein if the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain is not increased with respect to said reference value, then said subject is susceptible to receive a therapy aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling, improve disease free survival or overall survival.
- In some embodiments, the subject is non-postmenopausal. In other embodiments, the subject is postmenopausal.
- In one embodiment, the present invention relates to an in vitro method for designing a customized therapy for a non-postmenopausal subject having breast cancer which comprises: i) quantifying the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a sample of said subject and ii) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain obtained in i) with a reference value, wherein if the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain is increased with respect to said reference value, then said subject is not susceptible to receive a therapy aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling, improve disease free survival or overall survival.
- In one embodiment, the present invention relates to an in vitro method for designing a customized therapy for a postmenopausal subject having breast cancer which comprises: i) quantifying the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a sample of said subject and ii) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain obtained in i) with a reference value, wherein if the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain is increased with respect to said reference value, then said subject is susceptible to receive a therapy aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling, improve disease free survival or overall survival.
- In some embodiments, the subject is administered a therapy aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling, improve disease free survival or overall survival. In other embodiments, the subject is not administered a therapy aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling, improve disease free survival or overall survival.
- In certain embodiments, the therapy aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodelling or improve disease free survival or overall survival is an agent intended to prevent or inhibit bone degradation, improve disease free survival or overall survival is selected from the group consisting of: a bisphosphonate, a RANKL inhibitor, PTH, a PTHLH inhibitor (including neutralizing antibodies and peptides), a PRG analog, strontium ranelate, a DKK-1 inhibitor, a dual MET and VEGFR2 inhibitor, an estrogen receptor modulator, calcitonin, Radium-223, a CCR5 antagonist, a Src kinase inhibitor, a COX-2 inhibitor, an mTor inhibitor, and a cathepsin K inhibitor. In some embodiments, the RANKL inhibitor is selected from the group consisting of: a RANKL specific antibody, a RANKL-specific nanobody, and osteoprotegerin. In particular embodiments, the RANKL specific antibody is denosumab. In some embodiments, the bisphosphonate is zoledronic acid. In other embodiments, the RANKL specific nanobody is ALX-0141. In certain embodiments, the dual MET and VEGFR2 inhibitor is Cabozantinib.
- In some embodiments, the quantification of the c-MAF gene expression level comprises quantifying the messenger RNA (mRNA) of said gene, or a fragment of said mRNA, the complementary DNA (cDNA) of said gene, or a fragment of said cDNA or quantifying the levels of protein encoded by said gene. In particular embodiments, the expression level, copy number, amplification or gain is quantified by means of a quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) or a DNA or RNA array or nucleotide hybridization technique. In embodiments, the level of protein is quantified by means of western blot, ELISA, immunohistochemistry or a protein array. In certain embodiments, the level of protein is quantified using an antibody comprising a heavy chain CDR1 of SEQ ID NO: 21, and/or a heavy chain CDR2 of SEQ ID NO: 22, and/or a heavy chain CDR3 of SEQ ID NO: 23; and/or comprising a light chain CDR1 of SEQ ID NO: 18, and/or a light chain CDR2 of SEQ ID NO: 19 and/or a light chain CDR3 of SEQ ID NO: 20 In some embodiments, the amplification or gain of the c-MAF gene is determined by means of using a c-MAF gene-specific probe. In particular embodiments, the c-MAF gene-specific probe is Vysis LSI/IGH MAF Dual Color Dual Fusion Probe. In other embodiments, the amplification or gain is determined by means of in situ hybridization or PCR.
- In certain embodiments, the reference value is that of a tumor tissue sample of breast cancer from a subject who has not suffered metastasis.
- In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a method for the treatment of bone metastasis in a subject having breast cancer and having not increased c-MAF expression levels in a metastatic tumor sample with respect to a control sample comprising adminstering an agent capable of preventing or inhibiting bone remodelling, or improving disease free survival or overall survival wherein the agent capable of avoiding or preventing bone remodeling or improving disease free survival or overall survival is selected from the group consisting of: a bisphosphonate, a RANKL inhibitor, PTH, PTHLH inhibitor (including neutralizing antibodies and peptides), a PRG analog, strontium ranelate, a DKK-1 inhibitor, a dual MET and VEGFR2 inhibitor, an estrogen receptor modulator, an EGFR inhibitor, calcitonin, Radium-223, a CCR5 antagonist, a Src kinase inhibitor, a COX-2 inhibitor, an mTor inhibitor, and a cathepsin K inhibitor.
- In certain embodiments, the subject is non-postmenopausal. In other embodiments, the subject is postmenopausal.
- In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a method for the treatment of bone metastasis in a postmenopausal subject having breast cancer and having increased c-MAF expression levels in a metastatic tumor sample with respect to a control sample comprising adminstering an agent capable of preventing or inhibiting bone remodelling, or improving disease free survival or overall survival wherein the agent capable of avoiding or preventing bone remodelling is selected from the group consisting of: a bisphosphonate, a RANKL inhibitor, PTH, PTHLH inhibitor (including neutralizing antibodies and peptides), a PRG analog, strontium ranelate, a DKK-1 inhibitor, a dual MET and VEGFR2 inhibitor, an estrogen receptor modulator, an EGFR inhibitor, calcitonin, Radium-223, a CCR5 antagonist, a Src kinase inhibitor, a COX-2 inhibitor, an mTor inhibitor, and a cathepsin K inhibitor.
- In particular embodiments, the RANKL inhibitor is selected from the group of: a RANKL specific antibody, a RANKL specific nanobody, and osteoprotegerin. In further embodiments, the RANKL specific antibody is denosumab. In other embodiments, the bisphosphonate is zoledronic acid. In yet other embodiments, the RANKL specific nanobody is ALX-9141. In certain embodiments, the dual MET and VEGFR2 inhibitor is Cabozantinib.
- In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a method of classifying a subject suffering from breast cancer into a cohort, comprising: a) determining the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain of c-MAF in a breast tumor sample of said subject; b) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain of c-MAF in said sample to a predetermined reference level of c-MAF expression; and c) classifying said subject into a cohort based on said expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain of c-MAF in the sample and the status of the subject as post-menopausal or non-post-menopausal.
- In certain embodiments, the subjects are administered different treatments based on their c-MAF expression levels and/or their post-menopausal or non-post-menopausal status.
- In some embodiments, the quantification of the c-MAF expression level comprises quantifying the messenger RNA (mRNA) of said gene, or a fragment of said mRNA, the complementary DNA (cDNA) of said gene, or a fragment of said cDNA or quantifying the levels of protein encoded by said gene. In particular embodiments, the level of protein is quantified using an antibody comprising a heavy chain CDR1 of SEQ ID NO: 21, and/or a heavy chain CDR2 of SEQ ID NO: 22, and/or a heavy chain CDR3 of SEQ ID NO: 23; and/or comprising a light chain CDR1 of SEQ ID NO: 18, and/or a light chain CDR2 of SEQ ID NO: 19 and/or a light chain CDR3 of SEQ ID NO: 20 In certain embodiments, the amplification is determined by means of in situ hybridization or PCR. In further embodiments, the in situ hybridization is fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), chromogenic in situ hybridization (CISH) or silver in situ hybridization (SISH). In still further embodiments, the in situ hybridization is fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH).
- In some embodiments, the copy number of c-MAF as measured using FISH is ≥2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9 or 3.0. In particular embodiments, the copy number of c-MAF as measured using FISH is ≥2.2. In further embodiments, the copy number of c-MAF as measured using FISH is ≥2.3. In still further embodiments, the copy number of c-MAF as measured using FISH is ≥2.4. In certain embodiments, the copy number of c-MAF as measured using FISH is ≥2.5. In other embodiments, the copy number of c-MAF as measured using FISH is <2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9 or 3.0.
- In one embodiment, the present invention relates to an in vitro method for predicting the IDFS of a patient with breast cancer which comprises i) quantifying the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain of the c-MAF gene in a sample of said subject and ii) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain 1 obtained in step i) with a reference value, wherein increased expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain of said gene with respect to said reference value is indicative of a poor IDFS.
- In one embodiment, the present invention relates to an in vitro method for predicting IDFS of a patient with breast cancer which comprises determining the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a sample of said subject relative to a reference wherein an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to said reference is indicative of a poor IDFS.
- In one embodiment, the present invention relates to an in vitro method for predicting IDFS excluding bone recurrence of a patient with breast cancer which comprises determining the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a sample of said subject relative to a reference wherein an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to said reference is indicative of poor IDFS excluding bone recurrence.
- In some embodiments, the agent capable of preventing or inhibiting bone remodelling is an agent capable of preventing or inhibiting bone degradation
- In some embodiments, the quantification of the c-MAF expression level comprises quantifying the messenger RNA (mRNA) of said gene, or a fragment of said mRNA, the complementary DNA (cDNA) of said gene, or a fragment of said cDNA or quantifying the levels of protein encoded by said gene. In certain embodiments, the level of protein is quantified using an antibody comprising a heavy chain CDR1 of SEQ ID NO: 21, and/or a heavy chain CDR2 of SEQ ID NO: 22, and/or a heavy chain CDR3 of SEQ ID NO: 23; and/or comprising a light chain CDR1 of SEQ ID NO: 18, and/or a light chain CDR2 of SEQ ID NO: 19 and/or a light chain CDR3 of SEQ ID NO: 20. In other embodiments, the amplification is determined by means of in situ hybridization or PCR. In further embodiments, the in situ hybridization is fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), chromogenic in situ hybridization (CISH) or silver in situ hybridization (SISH). In still further embodiments, the in situ hybridization is fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH).
- In some embodiments, the copy number of c-MAF as measured using FISH is ≥2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9 or 3.0. In certain embodiments, the copy number of c-MAF as measured using FISH is ≥2.2. In other embodiments, the copy number of c-MAF as measured using FISH is ≥2.3. In further embodiments, the copy number of c-MAF as measured using FISH is ≥2.4. In still further embodiments, the copy number of c-MAF as measured using FISH is ≥2.5. In some embodiments, the copy number is determined as the average copy number per cell.
- In some embodiments, the breast cancer is ER+ breast cancer. In particular embodiments, the breast cancer is ER− breast cancer. In other embodiments, the breast cancer is triple negative breast cancer. In different embodiments, the breast cancer is of the basal-like subtype. In some embodiments, the breast cancer is HER2+ breast cancer.
- In some embodiments, the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain of the c-MAF gene is determined by means of determining the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain of the locus 16q23 or 16q22-q24.
- In some embodiments, the treatment is an mTOR inhibitor or a CDK4/6 inhibitor. In other embodiments, the treatment is hormonal therapy extended beyond the standard of care.
- In some embodiments, the invention relates to a method for the treatment of a subject having breast cancer and having increased c-MAF expression levels, copy number, amplification, or gain in a metastatic tumor sample with respect to a control sample comprising adminstering an mTOR inhibitor or a CDK4/6 inhibitor. In some embodiments, the invention relates to a method for the treatment of a subject having breast cancer and having increased c-MAF expression levels, copy number, amplification, or gain in a metastatic tumor sample with respect to a control sample comprising adminstering hormonal therapy extended beyond the standard of care. In some embodiments, the invention relates to a method for the treatment of a subject having breast cancer and having not increased c-MAF expression levels, copy number, amplification, or gain in a metastatic tumor sample with respect to a control sample comprising not adminstering an mTOR inhibitor or a CDK4/6 inhibitor. In some embodiments, the invention relates to a method for the treatment of a subject having breast cancer and having not increased c-MAF expression levels, copy number, amplification, or gain in a metastatic tumor sample with respect to a control sample comprising not adminstering hormonal therapy extended beyond the standard of care.
- In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a method for predicting the disease free survival status of a patient comprising measuring the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference sample level, and using the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain to predict the overall survival of the patient. In some embodiments, an increase in the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference sample level is predictive of a shorter disease free survival than a patient without an increase in the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference sample level.
- In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a method for predicting the overall survival status of a patient comprising measuring the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference sample level, and using the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain to predict the overall survival of the patient. In another embodiment, an increase in the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference sample level is predictive of a shorter overall survival than a patient without an increase in the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference sample level.
- In embodiments, the menopausal status of the patient is also used to predict the survival status of the patient. In some embodiments, the subject is non-postmenopausal. In certain embodiments, the subject is premenopausal. In particular embodiments, the subject is postmenopausal.
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FIG. 1 . Overview of the assay parameters. -
FIG. 2 . AZURE study design. -
FIG. 3 . H&E analysis of AZURE samples. Evaluable and non-evaluable samples are indicated. -
FIG. 4A andFIG. 4B . MAF positivity rate. -
FIG. 5 . MAF cut-off optimized FISH data. A sharp spike on the cutpoint graph indicates that the MAF FISH value truly is a threshold event. Additionally, the predefined cut-off is close to the optimized cut-off. -
FIG. 6 . Risk of bone recurrence based on MAF FISH value. -
FIG. 7 . Time to bone recurrence by MAF FISH value using a bone-optimized cutoff of 2.3. -
FIG. 8 . Percent IDFS by FISH. An optimum cutoff of 2.2 was used. -
FIG. 9 . Overall survival by FISH. An optimum cutoff of 2.2 was used. -
FIG. 10 . Time to bone recurrence by FISH in AZURE control patients only. A bone-optimized cutoff of 2.3 was used. -
FIG. 11 . IDFS by FISH in AZURE control patients only. An optimized cutoff of 2.2 was used. -
FIG. 12 . Time to IDFS (excluding bone recurrence) by FISH in AZURE control patients only. An optimized cutoff of 2.2 was used. -
FIG. 13A andFIG. 13B . Time to bone metastasis in patients in the control arm and in the zoledronic acid treatment arm. Cumulative incidence of bone metastasis (FIG. 13A ) as a first event and (FIG. 13B ) at any time during follow-up. Analyses were by intention to treat. HR-hazard ratio. -
FIG. 14 . Evaluation of the time to bone metastasis as a first event in AZURE control patients and zoledronic acid treated patients. A bone-optimized cutoff of 2.3 was used. -
FIG. 15A andFIG. 15B . Disease (DFS) and invasive disease (IDFS) free survival between the control arm and the zoledronic acid treated patients. Kaplan-Meier curves of (FIG. 15A ) disease-free-survival and (FIG. 15B ) invasive disease-free survival. Analyses were by intention to treat. HR=hazard ratio. -
FIG. 16 . Time to distant recurrence between the control arm and the zoledronic acid treated patients. -
FIG. 17 . Time to a bone metastatic event (anytime) according to treatment. Death as a competing event is used in time to bone metastasis (anytime). -
FIG. 18 . Time to a bone metastatic event (anytime) according to MAF copy number (according to pre-specified MAF cut off of 2.5). -
FIG. 19A andFIG. 19B . IDFS by menopausal status of the AZURE trial. Kaplan-Meir curve of invasive disease-free survival by menopausal status. (FIG. 19A ) premenopause, perimenopause, and unknown menopausal status and (FIG. 19B ) more than 5 years since menopause. Test of heterogeneity by menopausal status χ2 4.71; p=0.03. -
FIG. 20 . Time to a bone metastatic event (anytime) according to MAF copy number (data according to a pre-specified cut off of 2.5) in post menopausal patients. -
FIG. 21 . Time to a bone metastatic event (anytime) according to MAF copy number (data according to a pre-specified cut off of 2.5) in non-post menopausal patients. -
FIG. 22 . IDFS of the zoledronic acid treatment arm and the control arm, excluding bone metastasis of post-menopausal women. -
FIG. 23 . IDFS of the zoledronic acid treatment arm and the control arm, excluding bone metastasis of non-post-menopausal women. -
FIG. 24 . Overall survival (OS) by treatment arm. Treatment of MAF FISH positive patients with zoledronic acid significantly impacted the OS. -
FIG. 25 . Prognostic value of MAF FISH for disease free survival (DFS) in the Azure control arm. -
FIG. 26 . Prognostic value of MAF FISH for overall survival (OS) in the Azure control arm. -
FIG. 27 . Predictive value of MAF FISH for the effect of zoledronic acid treatment on the disease free survival (DFS) outcome. -
FIG. 28 . Predictive value of MAF FISH for the effect of zoledronic acid treatment on the disease free survival (DFS) outcome on post menopausal patients. -
FIG. 29 . Predictive value of MAF FISH for the effect of zoledronic acid treatment on the disease free survival (DFS) outcome on non-post menopausal patients. -
FIG. 30 . Predictive value of MAF FISH for the effect of zoledronic acid treatment on the OS outcome. -
FIG. 31 . Predictive value of MAF FISH for the effect of zoledronic acid treatment on the OS outcome in post menopausal patients. -
FIG. 32 . Predictive value of MAF FISH for the effect of zoledronic acid treatment on the OS outcome in non-post menopausal patients. - “And/or” where used herein is to be taken as specific disclosure of each of the two specified features or components with or without the other. For example ‘A and/or B’ is to be taken as specific disclosure of each of (i) A, (ii) B and (iii) A and B, just as if each is set out individually herein.
- The c-MAF gene (v-maf musculoaponeurotic fibrosarcoma oncogene homologue (avian) also known as MAF or MGC71685) is a transcription factor containing a leucine zipper which acts like a homodimer or a heterodimer. Depending on the DNA binding site, the encoded protein can be a transcriptional activator or repressor. The DNA sequence encoding c-MAF is described in the NCBI database under accession number NG_016440 (SEQ ID NO: 1)(coding)). The genomic sequence of c-MAF is set forth in SEQ ID NO:13. The methods of the present invention may utilize either the coding sequence or the genomic DNA sequence. Two messenger RNA are transcribed from said DNA sequence, each of the which will give rise to one of the two c-MAF protein isoforms, the a isoform and the R isoform. The complementary DNA sequences for each of said isoforms are described, respectively, in the NCBI database under accession numbers NM_005360.4 (SEQ ID NO: 2) and NM_001031804.2 (SEQ ID NO: 3). Use of the c-MAF gene to predict the prognosis of ER+ breast cancer can be found in U.S. application Ser. No. 13/878,114, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. Use of the c-MAF gene to predict the prognosis of triple-negative and ER+ breast cancer is described in U.S. application Ser. No. 14/391,085, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. Use of the c-MAF gene to predict the prognosis of thyroid cancer is described in U.S. Prov. Appl. No. 61/801,769, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. Use of the c-MAF gene to predict the prognosis of renal cell carcinoma is described in U.S. Prov. application Ser. No. 14/776,390, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. The use of a gene of interest, including c-MAF and the c-MAF gene locus, and probes to the gene locus, to determine the prognosis of an individual having breast cancer is described in U.S. application Ser. No. 14/776,412, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. Use of the c-MAF gene to predict the prognosis of lung cancer is found in U.S. application Ser. No. 14/405,724, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. Use of the c-MAF gene to predict the prognosis of prostate cancer is found in U.S. application Ser. Nos. 14/050,262 and 14/435,128, which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety. Use of the c-MAF gene to predict the prognosis of HER2+ cancer is found in U.S. application Ser. No. 15/027,946, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. Use of downstream genes of c-MAF to predict the prognosis of cancer is found in U.S. application Ser. Nos. 15/014,916 and 14/776,453, which are incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
- As used herein, the term “basal-like” “basal-like subtype,” “breast cancer of the basal-like subtype” and the like, as used herein, refers to a particular subtype of breast cancer characterized by the two negative receptors ER and HER2 and at least one positive receptor of the group consisting of CK5/6, CK14, CK17 and EGFR. Thus, all sentences in the present application which cite and refer to triple negative breast cancer (ER, HER-2, PgR) can also be cited and refer also to basal-like breast cancer wherein ER and HER2 are negative and wherein at least one of CK5/6, CK14, CK17 and EGFR is positive. Alternatively, “basal-like” also refers to breast cancer characterized by a gene expression profile based on the up-regulation and/or down-regulation of the following ten genes: (1) Forkhead box CI (FOXC 1); (2) Melanoma inhibitory activity (MIA); (3) NDC80 homolog, kinetochore complex component (KNTC2); (4) Centrosomal protein 55 kDa (CEP55); (5) Anillin, actin binding protein (ANLN); (6) Maternal embryonic leucine zipper kinase (MELK); (7) G protein-coupled receptor 160 (GPR160); (8) Transmembrane protein 45B (TMEM45B); (9) Estrogen receptor 1 (ESR1); (10) Forkhead box A1 (FOXA1). Because the gene expression profile used to classify breast cancer tumors as basal-like subtype does not include the estrogen receptor, the progesterone receptor or Her2, both triple negative and non-triple negative breast cancers may be classified as basal-like subtype.
- As used herein, “Triple-negative breast cancer” refers to a breast cancer which is characterized by a lack of detectable expression of both ER and PR (preferably when the measures of expression of ER and PR are carried out by the method disclosed by M. Elizabeth H et al., Journal of Clinical Oncology, 28(16): 2784-2795, 2010) and the tumor cells are not amplified for epidermal growth factor receptor type 2 (HER2 or ErbB2), a receptor normally located on the cell surface. Tumor cells are considered negative for expression of ER and PR if less than 5 percent of the tumor cell nuclei are stained for ER and PR expression using standard immunohistochemical techniques. As used herein, tumor cells are considered negative for HER2 overexpression if they yield a test result score of 0 or 1+, or 2+ when tested with a HercepTest™ Kit (Code K5204, Dako North America, Inc., Carpinteria, CA), a semi-quantitative immunohistochemical assay using a polyclonal anti-HER2 primary antibody or if they are HER2 FISH negative.
- As used herein, “ER+ breast cancer” is understood as breast cancer the tumor cells of which express the estrogen receptor (ER). This makes said tumors sensitive to estrogen, meaning that the estrogen makes the cancerous breast tumor grow. In contrast, “ER− breast cancer” is understood as breast cancer the tumor cells of which do not express the estrogen receptor (ER). Among the ER+ breast cancer are included luminal A and B subtypes.
- As used herein, “HER2+” refers to a breast cancer which is characterized by tumor cells with detectable expression of epidermal growth factor receptor type 2 (HER2 or ErbB2) and/or amplification for the HER2 gene, a receptor normally located on the cell surface. As used herein, tumor cells are considered negative for HER2 overexpression if they yield a test result score of 0 or 1+, or 2+ when tested with a HercepTest™ Kit (Code K5204, Dako North America, Inc., Carpinteria, CA), a semi-quantitative immunohistochemical assay using a polyclonal anti-HER2 primary antibody or if they are HER2 FISH negative.
- In the context of the present invention, a “post-menopausal” subject is understood to be a woman who has undergone menopause and has experienced sixty consecutive months without menstruation. See Coleman et al Lancet Oncol 2014; 15: 997-1006. In certain embodiments, a woman may confirm her postmenopausal status through the measuring of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH).
- In the context of the present invention, a “non post-menopausal” subject is any subject who has not gone through menopause and experienced sixty consecutive months without menstruation. “Non post-menopausal” subjects include premenopausal, perimenopausal, and unknown menopausal status women.
- In the context of the present invention, “metastasis” is understood as the propagation of a cancer from the organ where it started to a different organ. It generally occurs through the blood or lymphatic system. When the cancer cells spread and form a new tumor, the latter is called a secondary or metastatic tumor. The cancer cells forming the secondary tumor are like those of the original tumor. If a breast cancer, for example, spreads (metastasizes) to the bone, the secondary tumor is formed of malignant breast cancer cells. The disease in the bone is metastatic breast cancer and not bone cancer. In a particular embodiment of the method of the invention, the metastasis is breast cancer which has spread (metastasized) to the bone.
- In the context of the present invention, “recurrence” refers to the return of breast cancer following a period of time in which no cancer was detected. Breast cancer may reoccur locally in the breast or tissue surrounding the breast. Breast cancer may also reoccur in nearby lymph nodes or lymph nodes not in the surrounding area. When the breast cancer reoccurs by spreading to other tissues or travels through the blood stream to recur in bones or other organs, it is also referred to as metastasis. As used herein, recurrence also encompasses the risk of recurrence.
- In the context of the present invention, “relapse” refers to the situation when symptoms have decreased, but the subject is not cancer free, and then cancer returns. Breast cancer may relapse locally in the breast or tissue surrounding the breast. Breast cancer may also relapse in nearby lymph nodes or lymph nodes not in the surrounding area. When the breast cancer relapses by spreading to other tissues or travels through the blood stream to recur in bones or other organs, it is also referred to as metastasis. As used herein, relapse also encompasses the risk of relapse.
- As used herein, the term “disease free survival” refers to the length of time after primary treatment for a cancer ends that the patient survives without any signs or symptoms of that cancer. In some embodiments, disease free survival is referred to as DFS, relapse-free survival, or RFS.
- As used herein, the term “overall survival” or “OS” refers to the length of time from either the date of diagnosis or the start of treatment for a cancer that patients diagnosed with the disease are still alive.
- As used herein, the term “subject” or “patient” refers to all animals classified as mammals and includes but is not limited to domestic and farm animals, primates and humans, for example, human beings, non-human primates, cows, horses, pigs, sheep, goats, dogs, cats, or rodents. Preferably, the subject is a human man or woman of any age or race.
- The terms “poor” or “good”, as used herein to refer to a clinical outcome, mean that the subject will show a favorable or unfavorable outcome. As will be understood by those skilled in the art, such an assessment of the probability, although preferred to be, may not be correct for 100% of the subjects to be diagnosed. The term, however, requires that a statistically significant portion of subjects can be identified as having a predisposition for a given outcome. Whether a portion is statistically significant can be determined readily by the person skilled in the art using various well known statistic evaluation tools, e.g., determination of confidence intervals, p-value determination, Student's t-test, Mann-Whitney test, etc. Details are found in Dowdy and Wearden, Statistics for Research, John Wiley & Sons, New York 1983. Preferred confidence intervals are at least about 50%, at least about 60%, at least about 70%, at least about 80%, at least about 90% at least about 95%. The p-values are, preferably, 0.05, 0.01, 0.005, or 0.0001 or less. More preferably, at least about 60 percent, at least about 70 percent, at least about 80 percent or at least about 90 percent of the subjects of a population can be properly identified by the method of the present invention.
- In the present invention “tumor sample” is understood as a sample (e.g., tumor tissue, circulating tumor cell, circulating tumor DNA) originating from the primary breast cancer tumor. Said sample can be obtained by conventional methods, for example biopsy, using methods well known by the persons skilled in related medical techniques. The methods for obtaining a biopsy sample include splitting a tumor into large pieces, or microdissection, or other cell separating methods known in the art. The tumor cells can additionally be obtained by means of cytology through aspiration with a small gauge needle. To simplify sample preservation and handling, samples can be fixed in formalin and soaked in paraffin or first frozen and then soaked in a tissue freezing medium such as OCT compound by means of immersion in a highly cryogenic medium which allows rapid freezing.
- In the context of the present invention, “functionally equivalent variant of the c-MAF protein” is understood as (i) variants of the c-MAF protein (SEQ ID NO: 4 or SEQ ID NO: 5) in which one or more of the amino acid residues are substituted by a conserved or non-conserved amino acid residue (preferably a conserved amino acid residue), wherein such substituted amino acid residue may or may not be one encoded by the genetic code, or (ii) variants comprising an insertion or a deletion of one or more amino acids and having the same function as the c-MAF protein, i.e., to act as a DNA binding transcription factor. Variants of the c-MAF protein can be identified using methods based on the capacity of c-MAF for promoting in vitro cell proliferation as shown in international patent application WO2005/046731(hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety), based on the capacity of the so-called inhibitor for blocking the transcription capacity of a reporter gene under the control of cyclin D2 promoter or of a promoter containing the c-MAF responsive region (MARE or c-MAF responsive element) in cells expressing c-MAF as described in WO2008098351 (hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety), or based on the capacity of the so-called inhibitor for blocking reporter gene expression under the control of the IL-4 promoter in response to the stimulation with PMA/ionomycin in cells expressing NFATc2 and c-MAF as described in US2009048117A (hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety).
- The variants according to the invention preferably have sequence similarity with the amino acid sequence of any of the c-MAF protein isoforms (SEQ ID NO: 4 or SEQ ID NO: 5) of at about least 50%, at least about 60%, at about least 70%, at least about 80%, at least about 90%, at least about 91%, at least about 92%, at least about 93%, at least about 94%, at least about 95%, at least about 96%, at least about 97%, at about least 98% or at about least 99%. The degree of similarity between the variants and the specific c-MAF protein sequences defined previously is determined using algorithms and computer processes which are widely known by the persons skilled in the art. The similarity between two amino acid sequences is preferably determined using the BLASTP algorithm [BLAST Manual, Altschul, S., et al., NCBI NLM NIH Bethesda, Md. 20894, Altschul, S., et al., J. Mol. Biol. 215: 403-410 (1990)].
- As used herein, “agent for avoiding or preventing bone remodelling” refers to any molecule capable of preventing, inhibiting, treating, reducing, or stopping bone degradation either by stimulating the osteoblast proliferation or inhibiting the osteoclast proliferation or fixing the bone structure. Agents for avoiding or prevent bone remodeling include agents for avoiding or preventing bone degradation and include agents for avoiding or preventing bone synthesis.
- As used herein, a “c-MAF inhibitory agent” refers to any molecule capable of completely or partially inhibiting the c-MAF gene expression, both by preventing the expression product of said gene from being produced (interrupting the c-MAF gene transcription and/or blocking the translation of the mRNA coming from the c-MAF gene expression) and by directly inhibiting the c-MAF protein activity. C-MAF gene expression inhibitors can be identified using methods based on the capacity of the so-called inhibitor to block the capacity of c-MAF to promote the in vitro cell proliferation, such as shown in the international patent application WO2005/046731 (the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference), based on the capacity of the so-called inhibitor to block the transcription capacity of a reporter gene under the control of the cyclin D2 promoter or of a promoter containing the c-MAF response region (MARE or c-MAF responsive element) in cells which express c-MAF such as described in WO2008098351 (the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference) or based on the capacity of the so-called inhibitor to block the expression of a reporter gene under the control of the IL-4 promoter in response to the stimulation with PMA/ionomycin in cells which express NFATc2 and c-MAF such as described in US2009048117A (the entire contents of which is hereby incorporated by reference).
- As used herein, Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) or “mTor” refers to those proteins that correspond to EC 2.7.11.1. mTor enzymes are serine/threonine protein kinases and regulate cell proliferation, cell motility, cell growth, cell survival, and transcription.
- As used herein, an “mTor inhibitor” refers to any molecule capable of completely or partially inhibiting the mTor gene expression, both by preventing the expression product of said gene from being produced (interrupting the mTor gene transcription and/or blocking the translation of the mRNA coming from the mTor gene expression) and by directly inhibiting the mTor protein activity. Including inhibitors that have a dual or more targets and among them mTor protein activity.
- As used herein, “Src” refers to those proteins that correspond to EC 2.7.10.2. Src is a non-receptor tyrosine kinase and a proto-oncogene. Src may play a role in cell growth and embryonic development.
- As used herein, a “Src inhibitor” refers to any molecule capable of completely or partially inhibiting the Src gene expression, both by preventing the expression product of said gene from being produced (interrupting the Src gene transcription and/or blocking the translation of the mRNA coming from the Src gene expression) and by directly inhibiting the Src protein activity.
- As used herein, “Prostaglandin-
endoperoxide synthase 2”, “cyclooxygenase-2” or “COX-2” refers to those proteins that correspond to EC 1.14.99.1. COX-2 is responsible for converting arachidonic acid to prostaglandin endoperoxide H2. - As used herein, a “COX-2 inhibitor” refers to any molecule capable of completely or partially inhibiting the COX-2 gene expression, both by preventing the expression product of said gene from being produced (interrupting the COX-2 gene transcription and/or blocking the translation of the mRNA coming from the COX-2 gene expression) and by directly inhibiting the COX-2 protein activity.
- As used herein “outcome” or “clinical outcome” refers to the resulting course of disease and/or disease progression and can be characterized for example by recurrence, period of time until recurrence, relapse, metastasis, period of time until metastasis, number of metastases, number of sites of metastasis and/or death due to disease. For example a good clinical outcome includes cure, prevention of recurrence, prevention of metastasis and/or survival within a fixed period of time (without recurrence), and a poor clinical outcome includes disease progression, metastasis and/or death within a fixed period of time.
- As used herein, “invasive disease free survival” or “IDFS” refers to, in cancer, the length of time after primary treatment for a cancer ends that the patient survives without any signs or symptoms of that cancer invading the same breast parenchyma as the original primary tumor or other tissues. In some embodiments, IDFS includes: ipsilateral invasive breast tumor recurrence, local or regional invasive breast cancer recurrence, metastatic or distant recurrence, death attributable to any cause, including breast cancer, contralateral invasive breast cancer, and second primary invasive cancer (non-breast but excluding basal-cell or squamous skin cancers). See Coleman et al Lancet Oncol 2014; 15: 997-1006.
- In the present invention, “diagnosis of metastasis in a subject with breast cancer” is understood as identifying a disease (metastasis) by means of studying its signs, i.e., in the context of the present invention by means of increased c-MAF gene expression levels (i.e., overexpression) in the breast cancer tumor tissue with respect to a control sample.
- In the present invention “prognosis of the tendency to develop metastasis in a subject with breast cancer” is understood as knowing based on the signs if the breast cancer that said subject has will metastasize in the future. In the context of the present invention, the sign is c-MAF gene overexpression in tumor tissue.
- In the context of the present invention, it is understood that “a subject has a positive diagnosis for metastasis” when the breast cancer suffered by said subject has metastasized to other organs of the body, in a particular embodiment, to the bone. The term is similarly used for recurrence and relapse.
- The person skilled in the art will understand that the prediction of the tendency for a primary tumor to metastasize, relapse or reoccur is not intended to be correct for all the subjects to be identified (i.e., for 100% of the subjects). Nevertheless, the term requires enabling the identification of a statistically significant part of the subjects (for example, a cohort in a cohort study). Whether a part is statistically significant can be determined in a simple manner by the person skilled in the art using various well known statistical evaluation tools, for example, the determination of confidence intervals, determination of p values, Student's T test, Mann-Whitney test, etc. Details are provided in Dowdy and Wearden, Statistics for Research, John Wiley and Sons, New York 1983. The preferred confidence intervals are at least about 90%, at least about 95%, at least about 97%, at least 98% or at least 99%. The p values are preferably 0.1, 0.05, 0.01, 0.005 or 0.0001. More preferably, at least about 60%, at least about 70%, at least about 80% or at least about 90% of the subjects of a population can be suitably identified by the method of the present invention.
- As used herein, “poor prognosis” indicates that the subject is expected e.g. predicted to not survive and/or to have, or is at high risk of having, recurrence, relapse, or distant metastases within a set time period. The term “high” is a relative term and, in the context of this application, refers to the risk of the “high” expression group with respect to a clinical outcome (recurrence, distant metastases, etc.). A “high” risk can be considered as a risk higher than the average risk for a heterogeneous cancer patient population. In the study of Paik et al. (2004), an overall “high” risk of recurrence was considered to be higher than 15 percent. The risk will also vary in function of the time period. The time period can be, for example, five years, ten years, fifteen years or even twenty years of initial diagnosis of cancer or after the prognosis was made.
- “Reference value”, as used herein, refers to a laboratory value used as a reference for values/data obtained by laboratory examinations of patients or samples collected from patients. The reference value or reference level can be an absolute value; a relative value; a value that has an upper and/or lower limit; a range of values; an average value; a median value, a mean value, or a value as compared to a particular control or baseline value. A reference value can be based on an individual sample value, such as for example, a value obtained from a sample from the subject being tested, but at an earlier point in time. The reference value can be based on a large number of samples, such as from a population of subjects of the chronological age matched group, or based on a pool of samples including or excluding the sample to be tested.
- The term “treatment”, as used herein, refers to any type of therapy, which aims at terminating, preventing, ameliorating or reducing the susceptibility to a clinical condition as described herein. In an embodiment, the term treatment relates to prophylactic treatment (i.e. a therapy to reduce the susceptibility to a clinical condition), of a disorder or a condition as defined herein. Thus, “treatment,” “treating,” and their equivalent terms refer to obtaining a desired pharmacologic or physiologic effect, covering any treatment of a pathological condition or disorder in a mammal, including a human. The effect may be prophylactic in terms of completely or partially preventing a disorder or symptom thereof and/or may be therapeutic in terms of a partial or complete cure for a disorder and/or adverse effect attributable to the disorder. That is, “treatment” includes (1) preventing the disorder from occurring or recurring in a subject, (2) inhibiting the disorder, such as arresting its development, (3) stopping or terminating the disorder or at least symptoms associated therewith, so that the host no longer suffers from the disorder or its symptoms, such as causing regression of the disorder or its symptoms, for example, by restoring or repairing a lost, missing or defective function, or stimulating an inefficient process, or (4) relieving, alleviating, or ameliorating the disorder, or symptoms associated therewith, where ameliorating is used in a broad sense to refer to at least a reduction in the magnitude of a parameter, such as inflammation, pain, or immune deficiency.
- As used herein, “sample” or “biological sample” means biological material isolated from a subject. The biological sample may contain any biological material suitable for determining the expression level of the c-MAF gene. The sample can be isolated from any suitable biological tissue or fluid such as, for example, tumor tissue, blood, blood plasma, serum, urine or cerebral spinal fluid (CSF).
- As used herein, the term “expression level” of a gene as used herein refers to the measurable quantity of gene product produced by the gene in a sample of the subject, wherein the gene product can be a transcriptional product or a translational product. Accordingly, the expression level can pertain to a nucleic acid gene product such as mRNA or cDNA or a polypeptide gene product. The expression level is derived from a subject's sample and/or a reference sample or samples, and can for example be detected de novo or correspond to a previous determination. The expression level can be determined or measured, for example, using microarray methods, PCR methods (such as qPCR), and/or antibody based methods, as is known to a person of skill in the art.
- “Increased expression level” is understood as the expression level when it refers to the levels of the c-MAF gene greater than those in a reference sample or control sample. These increased levels can be caused without excluding other mechanisms by a gene or 16q23 or 16q22-24 chromosomal locus amplification, copy gain or translocation. Particularly, a sample can be considered to have high c-MAF expression level when the expression level in the sample isolated from the patient is at least about 1.1 times, 1.2 times, 1.3 times, 1.4 times, 1.5 times, 2 times, 2.1 times, 2.2 times, 2.3 times, 2.4 times, 2.5 times, 3 times, 4 times, 5 times, 10 times, 20 times, 30 times, 40 times, 50 times, 60 times, 70 times, 80 times, 90 times, 100 times or even more with respect to the reference or control. In embodiments, an “increased expression level” is a “high” expression level. An expression level that is “not increased” or “non increased” is any value that is not included in the definition of “increased” expression level, including a value equal or the reference or control level or a decreased expression level in comparison to a reference or control level.
- “Decreased expression level” is understood as the expression level when it refers to the levels of the c-MAF gene less than those in a reference sample or control sample. This decreased level can be caused without excluding other mechanisms by a gene or 16q23 or 16q22-24 chromosomal locus deletion. Particularly, a sample can be considered to have decreased c-MAF expression levels when the expression level in the sample isolated from the patient is at least about 1.1 times, 1.2 times, 1.3 times, 1.4 times, 1.5 times, 2 times, 2.1 times, 2.2 times, 2.3 times, 2.4 times, 2.5 times, 3 times, 4 times, 5 times, 10 times, 20 times, 30 times, 40 times, 50 times, 60 times, 70 times, 80 times, 90 times, 100 times or even less with respect to the reference or control. In embodiments, a “decreased expression level” is a “low” expression level.
- As used herein, the term “gene copy number” refers to the copy number of a nucleic acid molecule in a cell. The gene copy number includes the gene copy number in the genomic (chromosomal) DNA of a cell. In a normal cell (non-tumoral cell), the gene copy number is normally two copies (one copy in each member of the chromosome pair). The gene copy number sometimes includes half of the gene copy number taken from samples of a cell population.
- In the present invention, “increased gene copy number” is understood as when the c-MAF gene copy number is more than the copy number that a reference sample or control sample has. These increased gene copy number can be caused without excluding other mechanisms by a gene or 16q23 or 16q22-24 chromosomal locus amplification, copy gain or translocation. In particular, it can be considered that a sample has an increased c-MAF copy number when the copy number is more than 2 copies, for example, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 copies, and even more than 10 copies of the c-MAF gene. In embodiments, “increased gene copy number” is determined based on an average of copies per cells counted. In embodiments, it can be considered that a sample has an increased c-MAF copy number when the average copy number per cell counted is more than 2 copies, for example, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 copies, and even more than 10 copies of the c-MAF gene.
- In the present invention, “decreased gene copy number” is understood as when the c-MAF gene copy number is less than the copy number that a reference sample or control sample has. These decreased gene copy number can be caused without excluding other mechanisms by a gene or 16q23 or 16q22-24 chromosomal locus deletions. In particular, it can be considered that a sample has a decreased c-MAF copy number when the copy number is less than 2 copies of the c-MAF gene.
- In the present invention, a “not increased gene copy number” is understood as when the c-MAF gene copy number or the average c-MAF gene copy number is less than the copy number that a reference sample or positive for the increase sample has. The not increased gene copy number can be caused without excluding other mechanisms by no increase in gene or 16q23 or 16q22-24 chromosomal locus amplification, copy gain or translocation. In particular, it can be considered that a sample has not an increased c-MAF copy number or c-MAF average copy number when the copy number is less than 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9 copies of the c-MAF gene.
- The term “amplification of a gene” as understood herein refers to a process through which various copies of a gene or of a gene fragment are formed in an individual cell or a cell line. The copies of the gene are not necessarily located in the same chromosome. The duplicated region is often called an “amplicon”. Normally, the amount of mRNA produced, i.e., the gene expression level also increases in proportion to the copy number of a particular gene.
- The term “gain” refers any chromosomal copy number increase from the norm, i.e., in a diploid organism, 3 copies of a gene in a cell would be a gain. In some embodiments, “gain” includes the term “copy gain”, and is used synonymously with “copy number”.
- “Probe”, as used herein, refers to an oligonucleotide sequence that is complementary to a specific nucleic acid sequence of interest. In some embodiments, the probes may be specific to regions of chromosomes that are known to undergo translocations. In some embodiments, the probes have a specific label or tag. In some embodiments, the tag is a fluorophore. In some embodiments, the probe is a DNA in situ hybridization probe whose labeling is based on the stable coordinative binding of platinum to nucleic acids and proteins. In some embodiments, the probe is described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 9,127,302 and 9,134,237, which are incorporated by reference in their entirety, or as described in Swennenhuis et al. “Construction of repeat-free fluorescence in situ hybridization probes” Nucleic Acids Research 40(3):e20 (2012).
- “Tag” or “label”, as used herein, refers to any physical molecule that is directly or indirectly associated with a probe, allowing the probe or the location of the probed to be visualized, marked, or otherwise captured.
- “Translocation”, as used herein, refers to the exchange of chromosomal material in unequal or equal amounts between chromosomes. In some cases, the translocation is on the same chromosome. In some cases, the translocation is between different chromosomes. Translocations occur at a high frequency in many types of cancer, including breast cancer and leukemia. Translocations can be either primary reciprocal translocations or the more complex secondary translocations. There are several primary translocations that involve the immunoglobin heavy chain (IgH) locus that are believed to constitute the initiating event in many cancers. (Eychene, A., Rocques, N., and Puoponnot, C., A new MAFia in cancer. 2008. Nature Reviews: Cancer. 8: 683-693.)
- “Polyploid” or “polyploidy”, as used herein, indicates that the cell contains more than two copies of a gene of interest. In some instances, the gene of interest is MAF. In some embodiments, polyploidy is associated with an accumulation of expression of the gene of interest. In some embodiments, polyploidy is associated with genomic instability. In some embodiments, the genomic instability may lead to chromosome translocations.
- “Whole genome sequencing”, as used herein, is a process by which the entire genome of an organism is sequenced at a single time. See, e.g., Ng., P. C. and Kirkness, E. F., Whole Genome Sequencing. 2010. Methods in Molecular Biology. 628: 215-226.
- “Exome sequencing”, as used herein, is a process by which the entire coding region of the DNA of an organism is sequenced. In exome sequencing, the mRNA is sequenced. The untranslated regions of the genome are not included in exome sequencing. See, e.g., Choi, M. et al., Genetic diagnosis by whole exome capture and massively parallel DNA sequencing. 2009. PNAS. 106(45): 19096-19101.
- As used herein, “binding member” describes one member of a pair of molecules that bind one another. The members of a binding pair may be naturally derived or wholly or partially synthetically produced. One member of the pair of molecules has an area on its surface, or a cavity, which binds to and is therefore complementary to a particular spatial and polar organization of the other member of the pair of molecules. Examples of types of binding pairs are antigen-antibody, receptor-ligand and enzyme-substrate. In some embodiments, the binding member is an antibody. In some embodiments, the binding member is an antibody that binds a c-MAF antigen.
- As used herein, “CDR region” or “CDR” is intended to indicate the hypervariable regions of the heavy and light chains of the immunoglobulin as defined by Kabat et al., (1991) Sequences of Proteins of Immunological Interest, 5th Edition. US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Service, NIH, Washington. An antibody typically contains 3 heavy chain CDRs, termed HCDR1, HCDR2, and HCDR3, and 3 light chain CDRs, termed LCDR1, LCDR2 and LCDR3. The term CDR or CDRs is used here in order to indicate one of these regions or several, or even the whole, of these regions which contain the majority of the amino acid residues responsible for the binding by affinity of the antibody for the antigen or the epitope which it recognizes. Among the six CDR sequences, the third CDR of the heavy chain (HCDR3) has a greatest size variability i.e. greater diversity, essentially due to the mechanism known in the art as V(D)J rearrangement of the V, D and J gene segments of the germline immunoglobulin heavy chain gene locus. The HCDR3 may be as short as two amino acids or as long as 26 amino acids, or may have any length in between these two extremes. CDR length may also vary according to the length that can be accommodated by the particular underlying framework. Functionally, HCDR3 can play an important role in the determination of the specificity of the antibody (Segal et al., (1974) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 71(11): 4298-302; Amit et al., (1986) Science 233(4765): 747-53; Chothia et al., (1987) J. Mol. Biol. 196(4): 901-17; Chothia et al., (1989) Nature 342(6252): 877-83; Caton et al., (1990) J. Immunol. 144(5): 1965-8; Sharon (1990a) PNAS USA. 87(12): 4814-7, Sharon (1990b) J. Immunol. 144: 4863-4869, Kabat et al., (1991) Sequences of Proteins of Immunological Interest, 5th Edition. US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Service, NIH, Washington).
- As used herein, “antibody”, “antibody molecule”, or “antibodies” describes an immunoglobulin whether naturally, or partly, or wholly synthetically produced. The term also covers any polypeptide or protein comprising an antibody antigen-binding site. It must be understood here that the invention does not relate to the antibodies in natural form, that is to say they are not in their natural environment but that they have been able to be isolated or obtained by purification from natural sources, or else obtained by genetic recombination, or by chemical synthesis, and that they can then contain unnatural amino acids. Antibody fragments that comprise an antibody antigen-binding site include, but are not limited to, molecules such as Fab, Fab′, F(ab′)2, Fab′-SH, scFv, Fv, dAb and Fd. Various other antibody molecules including one or more antibody antigen-binding sites have been engineered, including for example Fab2, Fab3, diabodies, triabodies, tetrabodies, camelbodies, nanobodies and minibodies. Antibody molecules and methods for their construction and use are described in Hollinger & Hudson (2005) Nature Biot. 23(9): 1126-1136.
- As used herein, “antibody molecule” should be construed as covering any binding member or substance having an antibody antigen-binding site with the required specificity and/or binding to antigen. Thus, this term covers functional antibody fragments and derivatives, including any polypeptide comprising an antibody antigen-binding site, whether natural or wholly or partially synthetic. Chimeric molecules comprising an antibody antigen-binding site, or equivalent, fused to another polypeptide (e.g. derived from another species or belonging to another antibody class or subclass) are therefore included. Cloning and expression of chimeric antibodies are described for example in EP0120694A (Boss et al) and EP0125023A (Cabilly et al), which are incorporated herein in their entirety.
- As used herein, “functional fragment or variant” of, for example, a binding member of the present invention means a fragment or variant of a binding member that retains at least some function of a full binding member (e.g., the ability to specifically bind to antigen such as Maf).
- “Tumor tissue sample” is understood as the tissue sample originating from the breast cancer tumor, including but not limited to circulating tumor cells and circulating tumor DNA. Said sample can be obtained by conventional methods, for example biopsy, using methods well known by the persons skilled in related medical techniques.
- “Osteolytic bone metastasis” refers to a type of metastasis in which bone resorption (progressive loss of the bone density) is produced in the proximity of the metastasis resulting from the stimulation of the osteoclast activity by the tumor cells and is characterized by severe pain, pathological fractures, hypercalcaemia, spinal cord compression and other syndromes resulting from nerve compression.
- Method for Designing Customized Therapy of the Invention in Patients with Breast Tumors
- The present invention is directed to identifying subjects suffering from breast cancer who will benefit from treatment with particular agents and/or therapies. In some embodiments, the invention is directed to identifying subjects suffering from breast cancer who will not benefit from treatment with particular agents and therapies. In some embodiments, the subjects have a high expression level, copy number, amplification, gain and/or translocation of c-MAF. In certain embodiments, the subjects have a low expression level, copy number, amplification, gain and/or translocation of c-MAF. In particular embodiments, the cancer is triple-negative breast cancer. In other embodiments, the cancer is ER+ breast cancer. In further embodiments, the cancer is ER-breast cancer. In still further embodiments, the cancer is HER2+ breast cancer. In some embodiments, the cancer is a basal-like breast cancer. In one embodiment, the subjects are post-menopausal. In an embodiment, the subjects are non-post menopausal. As described U.S. application Ser. No. 14/391,085, U.S. Prov. Appl. No. 61/801,769, U.S. Prov. application Ser. No. 14/776,390, U.S. application Ser. No. 14/776,412, U.S. application Ser. No. 14/405,724, U.S. application Ser. No. 14/050,262, U.S. application Ser. No. 14/435,128, U.S. application Ser. No. 15/027,946 U.S. application Ser. No. 15/014,916, and U.S. application Ser. No. 14/776,453, each of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety, the levels of c-MAF can be used to diagnosis metastasis, relapse or recurrence, or to predict the tendency of a tumor to undergo metastasis, relapse or recurrence. Therefore, as described in the present invention, given that the c-MAF gene overexpression in breast cancer cells is related to the presence of metastasis, relapse or recurrence, the c-MAF gene expression levels allow making decisions in terms of the most suitable therapy for the subject suffering said cancer. In an embodiment, the invention comprises quantifying only the c-MAF gene expression level as a single marker, i.e., the method does not involve determining the expression level of any additional marker.
- Thus, in one embodiment the invention relates to an in vitro method for designing a customized therapy for a subject with breast cancer, which comprises a) quantifying the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a tumor sample of said subject and b) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification or gain obtained with the expression level, copy number, amplification or gain of said gene in a control sample, wherein the therapy is determined based on the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification or gain in the subject. In some embodiments, the subject has a high c-MAF gene expression level. In other embodiments, the subject has a low c-MAF gene expression level. In certain embodiments, the subject is administered an agent that avoids and/or prevents bone remodelling, including agents that avoid or prevent bone degradation. In embodiments, the subject is administered an agent that treats the cancer. In further embodiments, the subject is administered a c-MAF inhibitory agent. In particular embodiments, the agent that avoids and/or prevents bone remodelling or the c-MAF inhibitory agent is any agent disclosed in U.S. Publ. Nos. 2014/0057796 and 2015/0293100 and U.S. application Ser. No. 15/027,946, which are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.
- In one embodiment, the invention relates to an in vitro method for designing a customized therapy for a subject having breast cancer which comprises i) quantifying the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a sample of said subject and ii) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain obtained in i) with a reference value, wherein if the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain is not increased with respect to said reference value, then said subject is susceptible to receive a therapy aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling or improves disease free survival or overall survival. In some embodiments, the subject is non-postmenopausal. In other embodiments, the subject is postmenopausal. In an embodiment, the subject is administered the agent aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodelling. In embodiments, the subject is administered an agent that improves disease free survival or overall survival. In further embodiments, the subject is administered a c-MAF inhibitory agent.
- In another embodiment, the invention relates to an in vitro method for designing a customized therapy for a non-postmenopausal subject having breast cancer which comprises i) quantifying the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a sample of said subject and ii) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain obtained in i) with a reference value, wherein if the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain is increased with respect to said reference value, then said subject is not susceptible to receive a therapy aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling and/or improves disease free survival or overall survival. In some embodiments, the subject is not administered the agent aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling and/or improves disease free survival or overall survival.
- In another embodiment, the invention relates to an in vitro method for designing a customized therapy for a postmenopausal subject having breast cancer which comprises i) quantifying the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a sample of said subject and ii) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain obtained in i) with a reference value, wherein if the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain is increased with respect to said reference value, then said subject is susceptible to receive a therapy aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling and/or improves disease free survival or overall survival. In some embodiments, the subject is administered the agent aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling and/or the therapy to improve disease free survival or overall survival.
- In another embodiment, the invention relates to an in vitro method for designing a customized therapy for a postmenopausal subject having breast cancer which comprises i) quantifying the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a sample of said subject and ii) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain obtained in i) with a reference value, wherein if the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain is not increased with respect to said reference value, then said subject is not susceptible to receive a therapy aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling and/or improves disease free survival or overall survival. In some embodiments, the subject is not administered the agent aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling and/or improves disease free survival or overall survival.
- In an embodiment, the invention relates to a method for the treatment of bone metastasis in a subject having breast cancer and having decreased c-MAF levels in a metastatic tumor sample with respect to a control sample comprising administering an agent capable of preventing or inhibiting bone remodeling and or improve disease free survival or overall survival, wherein the agent capable of avoiding or preventing bone remodeling or improving disease free survival or overall survival is selected from the group consisting of: a bisphosphonate, a RANKL inhibitor, PTH, PTHLH inhibitor (including neutralizing antibodies and peptides), a PRG analog, strontium ranelate, a DKK-1 inhibitor, a dual MET and VEGFR2 inhibitor, an estrogen receptor modulator, an EGFR inhibitor, calcitonin, Radium-223, a CCR5 antagonist, a Src kinase inhibitor, a COX-2 inhibitor, an mTor inhibitor, and a cathepsin K inhibitor. In some embodiments, the subject is non-postmenopausal. In other embodiments, the subject is postmenopausal.
- In another embodiment, the invention relates to a method for the treatment of bone metastasis in a postmenopausal subject having breast cancer and having increased c-MAF levels in a metastatic tumor sample with respect to a control sample comprising administering an agent capable of preventing or inhibiting bone remodeling and/or an agent that improves disease free survival or overall survival, wherein the agent capable of avoiding or preventing bone remodeling and/or improving disease free survival or overall survival is selected from the group consisting of: a bisphosphonate, a RANKL inhibitor, PTH, PTHLH inhibitor (including neutralizing antibodies and peptides), a PRG analog, strontium ranelate, a DKK-1 inhibitor, a dual MET and VEGFR2 inhibitor, an estrogen receptor modulator, an EGFR inhibitor, calcitonin, Radium-223, a CCR5 antagonist, a Src kinase inhibitor, a COX-2 inhibitor, an mTor inhibitor, and a cathepsin K inhibitor.
- In certain embodiments, the subject is administered an agent that avoids and/or prevents bone remodelling, including agents that avoid or prevent bone degradation. In embodiments, the subject is administered an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation.
- Once the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification or gain in the sample have been measured and compared with the control sample, the expression level, copy number, amplification or gain of said gene, in combination with the menopausal status of the subject indicates whether the subject is susceptible to receiving therapy aiming to prevent (if the subject has yet to undergo metastasis) and/or treat metastasis (if the subject has already experienced metastasis), relapse or recurrence and or a therapy or agent intended to avoid or prevent bone remodelling.
- In some embodiments, a copy number of MAF or average copy number of MAF per cell as measured using FISH≥2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9 or 3.0 is considered a high value. In embodiments, the MAF FISH value is ≥2.2. In certain embodiments, the MAF FISH value is ≥2.3. In other embodiments, the MAF FISH value is ≥2.4. In further embodiments, the MAF FISH value is ≥2.5. In other embodiments, the copy number of c-MAF as measured using FISH is <2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9 copies of the c-MAF gene.
- In a particular embodiment, the subject has metastasis or a prognosis to undergo metastasis. In some embodiments, the metastasis is a bone metastasis. In a further embodiment, the bone metastasis is osteolytic metastasis.
- In some embodiments, the method comprises in a first step quantifying the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, gain or amplification in a tumor sample in a subject suffering from breast cancer.
- In some embodiments, the sample is a primary tumor tissue sample of the subject. In a second step, the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification or gain obtained in the tumor sample of the subject is compared with the expression level, copy number, amplification or gain of said gene in a control sample. The determination of the c-MAF gene expression levels, copy number, amplification or gain must be related to values of a control sample or reference sample. Depending on the type of tumor to be analyzed, the exact nature of the control sample may vary. Thus, in some embodiments, the reference sample is a tumor tissue sample of a subject with breast cancer that has not metastasized, relapsed or reoccurred or that corresponds to the median value of the c-MAF gene expression levels, copy number, amplification or gain measured in a tumor tissue collection in biopsy samples of subjects with breast cancer which has not metastasized, relapsed or reoccurred.
- In one embodiment, the methods of the invention comprise in a second step comparing the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification or gain obtained in the tumor sample (including but not limited to a primary tumor biopsy, circulating tumor cells and circulating tumor DNA) from the subject with the expression level of said gene in a control sample.
- The determination of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification or gain must be correlated with values of a control sample or reference sample. Depending on the type of tumor to be analyzed, the exact nature of the control sample may vary. Thus, in the event that a diagnosis is to be evaluated, then the reference sample is a tumor tissue sample from a subject with breast cancer that has not metastasized or that corresponds to the median value of the c-MAF gene expression levels measured in a tumor tissue collection in biopsy samples from subjects with breast cancer which have not metastasized.
- Said reference sample is typically obtained by combining equal amounts of samples from a subject population. Generally, the typical reference samples will be obtained from subjects who are clinically well documented and in whom the absence of metastasis is well characterized. In such samples, the normal concentrations (reference concentration) of the biomarker (c-MAF gene) can be determined, for example by providing the mean concentration over the reference population. Various considerations are taken into account when determining the reference concentration of the marker. Among such considerations are the age, weight, sex, general physical condition of the patient and the like. For example, equal amounts of a group of at least about 2, at least about 10, at least about 20, at least about 25, at least about 50, at least about 75, at least about 100, at least about 250, at least about 500, to more than 1000 subjects, classified according to the foregoing considerations, for example according to various age categories, are taken as the reference group. The sample collection from which the reference level is derived will preferably be formed by subjects suffering from the same type of cancer as the patient object of the study (e.g., breast cancer). Similarly, the reference value within a cohort of patients can be established using a receiving operating curve (ROC) and measuring the area under the curve for all de sensitivity and specificity pairs to determine which pair provides the best values and what the corresponding reference value is. ROC is a standard statistical concept. A description can be found in Stuart G. Baker “The Central Role of Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves in Evaluating Tests for the Early Detection of Cancer” Journal of The National Cancer Institute (2003)
Vol 95, No. 7, 511-515. - Once this median or reference value has been established, the level of this marker expressed in tumor tissues from patients with this median value can be compared and thus be assigned, for example, to the “increased” expression level. Due to the variability among subjects (for example, aspects referring to age, race, etc.) it is very difficult (if not virtually impossible) to establish absolute reference values of c-MAF expression. Thus, in particular embodiments the reference values for “increased” or “reduced” expression of the c-MAF expression are determined by calculating the percentiles by conventional means which involves performing assays in one or several samples isolated from subjects whose disease is well documented by any of the methods mentioned above the c-MAF expression levels. The “reduced” levels of c-MAF can then preferably be assigned to samples wherein the c-MAF expression levels are equal to or lower than 50th percentile in the normal population including, for example, expression levels equal to or lower than the 60th percentile in the normal population, equal to or lower than the 70th percentile in the normal population, equal to or lower than the 80th percentile in the normal population, equal to or lower than the 90th percentile in the normal population, and equal to or lower than the 95th percentile in the normal population. The “increased” c-MAF gene expression levels can then preferably be assigned to samples wherein the c-MAF gene expression levels are equal to or greater than the 50th percentile in the normal population including, for example, expression levels equal to or greater than the 60th percentile in the normal population, equal to or greater than the 70th percentile in the normal population, equal to or greater than the 80th percentile in the normal population, equal to or greater than the 90th percentile in the normal population, and equal to or greater than the 95th percentile in the normal population.
- In a particular embodiment, the degree of amplification or gain of the c-MAF gene can be determined by means of determining the amplification or gain of a chromosome region containing said gene. Preferably, the chromosome region the amplification or gain of which is indicative of the existence of amplification or gain of the c-MAF gene is the locus 16q22-q24 which includes the c-MAF gene. The locus 16q22-q24 is located in
chromosome 16, in the long arm of said chromosome and in a range betweenband 22 andband 24. This region corresponds in the NCBI database with the contigs NT_010498.15 and NT_010542.15. In another preferred embodiment, the degree of amplification or gain of the c-MAF gene can be determined by means of using a probe specific for said gene. - In some embodiments, the amplification or gain is in region at the 16q23 locus. In some embodiments, the amplification or gain is in any part of the chromosomal region between Chr. 16-79,392,959 bp to 79,663,806 bp (from centromere to telomere). In some embodiments, the amplification or gain is in the genomic region between Chr. 16-79,392,959 bp to 79,663,806 bp, but excluding DNA repeating elements. In some embodiments, amplification or gain is measured using a probe specific for that region.
- In an embodiment, the c-MAF gene is amplified with respect to a reference gene copy number when the c-MAF gene copy number is higher than the copy number that a reference sample or control sample has. In one example, the c-MAF gene is said to be “amplified” if the genomic copy number or the average genomic copy number of the c-MAF gene is increased by at least about 2- (i.e., 6 copies), 3- (i.e., 8 copies), 4-, 5-, 6-, 7-, 8-, 9-, 10-, 15-, 20-, 25-, 30-, 35-, 40-, 45-, or 50-fold in a test sample relative to a control sample. In another example, a c-MAF gene is said to be “amplified” if the genomic copy number or the average genomic copy number of the c-MAF gene per cell is at least about 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 25., 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, and the like.
- In some embodiments, when copy number is measured, the control sample refers to a tumor sample of a subject with breast cancer who has not suffered metastasis or that correspond to the median value of the c-MAF gene copy number measured in a tumor tissue collection in biopsy samples of subjects with breast cancer who have not suffered metastasis. Said reference sample is typically obtained by combining equal amounts of samples from a subject population. If the c-MAF gene copy number is increased with respect to the copy number of said gene in the control sample, then subject has a positive diagnosis for metastasis or a greater tendency to develop metastasis. In another embodiment, the reference gene copy number is the gene copy number in a sample of breast cancer from a subject who has not suffered bone metastasis.
- In another embodiment, the amplification or gain is determined by means of in situ hybridization or PCR.
- In another embodiment and as described in the present invention, given that the chr16q22-24, including the c-MAF gene, is amplified in breast cancer cells is related to the presence of metastasis, relapse or recurrence the chr16q22-24, including the c-MAF gene, amplification or gain allow making decisions in terms of the most suitable therapy for the subject suffering said cancer.
- The determination of the amplification of the c-MAF gene needs to be correlated with values of a control sample or reference sample that correspond to the level of amplification of the c-MAF gene measured in a tumor tissue sample of a subject with breast cancer who has not suffered metastasis or that correspond to the median value of the amplification of the c-MAF gene measured in a tumor tissue collection in biopsy samples of subjects with breast cancer who have not suffered metastasis. Said reference sample is typically obtained by combining equal amounts of samples from a subject population.
- In general, the typical reference samples will be obtained from subjects who are clinically well documented and in whom the absence of metastasis is well characterized. The sample collection from which the reference level is derived will preferably be made up of subjects suffering the same type of cancer as the patient object of the study. Once this median value has been established, the level of amplification of c-MAF in tumor tissues of patients can be compared with this median value, and thus, if there is amplification, the subject has a positive diagnosis of metastasis or a greater tendency to develop metastasis.
- In another aspect, the invention relates to an in vitro method for designing a customized therapy for a patient suffering from breast cancer, which comprises determining if the c-MAF gene is translocated in a sample of said subject.
- In some embodiments, the translocated gene is from the region at the 16q23 locus. In some embodiments, the translocated gene is from any part of the chromosomal region between Chr. 16-79,392,959 bp to 79,663,806 bp (from centromere to telomere). In some embodiments, the translocated gene is from the genomic region between Chr. 16-79,392,959 bp to 79,663,806 bp, but excluding DNA repeating elements. In some embodiments, the translocation is measured using a probe specific for that region.
- In a particular embodiment, the translocation of the c-MAF gene can be determined by means of determining the translocation of a chromosome region containing said gene. In one embodiment, the translocation is the t(14,16) translocation. In another embodiment, the chromosome region that is translocated is from locus 16q22-q24. The locus 16q22-q24 is located in
chromosome 16, in the long arm of said chromosome and in a range betweenband 22 andband 24. This region corresponds in the NCBI database with the contigs NT_010498.15 and NT_010542.15. In an, the c-MAF gene translocates tochromosome 14 at the locus 14q32, resulting in the translocation t(14,16)(q32,q23). This translocation places the MAF gene next to the strong enhancers in the IgH locus, which, in some cases, leads to overexpression of MAF. (Eychene, A., Rocques, N., and Puoponnot, C., A new MAFia in cancer. 2008. Nature Reviews: Cancer. 8: 683-693.) - In an embodiment, the translocation of the c-MAF gene can be determined by means of using a probe specific for said translocation.
- One embodiment of the invention comprises a method in which in a first step it is determined if the c-MAF gene is translocated in a sample of a subject. In an embodiment, the sample is a tumor tissue sample.
- In a particular embodiment, a method of the invention for the prognosis of the tendency to develop bone metastasis in a subject with breast cancer comprises determining the c-MAF gene copy number in a sample of said subject wherein the c-MAF gene is translocated and comparing said copy number with the copy number of a control or reference sample, wherein if the c-MAF copy number is greater with respect to the c-MAF copy number of a control sample, then the subject has a greater tendency to develop bone metastasis.
- In some embodiments, the amplification, gain and copy number of the c-MAF gene are determined after translocation of the c-MAF gene is determined. In some embodiments, a probe is used to determine if the cell is polyploid for the c-MAF gene. In some embodiments, a determination of polyploidy is made by determining if there are more than 2 signals from the gene of interest. In some embodiments, polyploidy is determined by measuring the signal from the probe specific for the gene of interest and comparing it with a centromeric probe or other probe.
- Method of Predicting Survival, Including IDFS, Using c-MAF
- The present invention is directed to predicting the IDFS of a subject suffering from breast cancer. In certain embodiments, the subjects have a high expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain of c-MAF. In other embodiments, the subjects have a low expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain of c-MAF. In some embodiments, the cancer is triple-negative breast cancer. In other embodiments, the cancer is ER+ breast cancer. In further embodiments, the cancer is ER− breast cancer. In certain embodiments, the cancer is basal-like breast cancer. In still further embodiments, the cancer is HER2+ breast cancer. In some embodiments, the subjects are post-menopausal. In other embodiments, the subjects are non-post menopausal.
- In some embodiments, the invention is directed to an in vitro method for predicting the IDFS of a patient with breast cancer which comprises i) quantifying the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain of the c-MAF gene in a sample of said subject and ii) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain obtained in step i) with a reference value, wherein increased expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain of said gene with respect to said reference value is indicative of a poor IDFS prognosis.
- In an embodiment, the invention is directed to an in vitro method for predicting the IDFS of a patient with breast cancer which comprises determining the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a sample of said subject relative to a reference wherein an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to said reference is indicative of a poor IDFS prognosis.
- In a further embodiment, the invention is directed to an in vitro method for predicting the IDFS, excluding bone recurrence, of a patient with breast cancer which comprises determining the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a sample of said subject relative to a reference wherein an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to said reference is indicative of a poor IDFS prognosis, excluding bone recurrence.
- In some embodiments, the copy number of MAF or average copy number of MAF per cell as measured using FISH≥2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9 or 3.0 is considered a high value. In certain embodiments, the MAF FISH value is ≥2.2. In other embodiments, the MAF FISH value is ≥2.3. In further embodiments, the MAF FISH value is ≥2.4. In still further embodiments, the MAF FISH value is ≥2.5.
- In some embodiments, the c-MAF status of the subject predicts the overall survival or the duration of the disease-free survival of the subject. In certain embodiments, the c-MAF status in any of the embodiments herein includes 16923 or 16q22-24 chromosomal locus amplification, copy gain or translocation or lack thereof, or 16q23 or 16q22-24 chromosomal locus deletions. In particular embodiments, a subject with an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference has a shorter disease free survival than a subject without an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference. In embodiments, the disease free survival of a subject with an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is at least about 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, 6 months, 7 months, 8 months, 9 months, 10 months, 11 months, 12 months, 1 year, eighteen months, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years, 7 years, 8 years, 9 years, 10 years or more than 10 years less than the disease free survival of a subject without an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference. In certain embodiments, a subject with an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference has a shorter overall survival than a subject without an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference. In embodiments, the overall survival of a subject with an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is at least about 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, 6 months, 7 months, 8 months, 9 months, 10 months, 11 months, 12 months, 1 year, eighteen months, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years, 7 years, 8 years, 9 years, 10 years or more than 10 years less than the disease free survival of a subject without an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference. In embodiments, the subject is post menopausal. In other embodiments, the subject is non-post-menopausal. In some embodiments, the subject is premenopausal.
- In embodiments, the disease free survival of a subject without an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is longer after treatment with a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e. zoledronic acid, than the disease free survival of a subject with an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference. In embodiments, the disease free survival of a subject without an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is at least about 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, 6 months, 7 months, 8 months, 9 months, 10 months, 11 months, 12 months, 1 year, eighteen months, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years, 7 years, 8 years, 9 years, 10 years or more after treatment with zoledronic acid than the disease free survival of a subject with an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference after treatment with a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e. zoledronic acid. In embodiments, the overall survival of a subject without an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is longer after treatment a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e. zoledronic acid, than the overall survival of a subject with an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference. In embodiments, the overall survival of a subject without an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is at least about 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, 6 months, 7 months, 8 months, 9 months, 10 months, 11 months, 12 months, 1 year, eighteen months, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years, 7 years, 8 years, 9 years, 10 years or more after treatment with zoledronic acid than the overall survival of a subject with an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference after treatment with zoledronic acid. In embodiments, the subject is post menopausal. In other embodiments, the subject is non-post-menopausal. In some embodiments, the subject is premenopausal.
- In embodiments, the disease free survival of a subject with an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is shorter after treatment a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e. zoledronic acid, than the disease free survival of a subject without an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference. In embodiments, the disease free survival of a subject with an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is at least about 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, 6 months, 7 months, 8 months, 9 months, 10 months, 11 months, 12 months, 1 year, eighteen months, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years, 7 years, 8 years, 9 years, 10 years or more than 10 years less after treatment a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e. zoledronic acid, than the disease free survival of a subject without an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference after treatment a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e. zoledronic acid. In embodiments, the overall survival of a subject with an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is shorter after treatment a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e. zoledronic acid, than the overall survival of a subject without an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference. In embodiments, the overall survival of a subject with an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is at least about 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, 6 months, 7 months, 8 months, 9 months, 10 months, 11 months, 12 months, 1 year, eighteen months, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years, 7 years, 8 years, 9 years, 10 years or more than 10 years less after treatment a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e. zoledronic acid, than the overall survival of a subject without an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference after treatment a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e. zoledronic acid. In embodiments, the subject is post menopausal. In other embodiments, the subject is non-post-menopausal. In some embodiments, the subject is premenopausal.
- In embodiments, the disease free survival of non-post menopausal subject with an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is shorter after treatment a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e. zoledronic acid, than the disease free survival of a subject without an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference. In embodiments, the disease free survival of a non-post menopausal subject with an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is at least about 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, 6 months, 7 months, 8 months, 9 months, 10 months, 11 months, 12 months, 1 year, eighteen months, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years, 7 years, 8 years, 9 years, 10 years or more than 10 years less after treatment a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e. zoledronic acid, than the disease free survival of a subject without an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference after treatment a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e. zoledronic acid.
- In embodiments, the overall survival of a subject with an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is shorter after treatment a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e. zoledronic acid, than the disease free survival of a subject without an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference. In embodiments, the overall survival of a subject with an increase in their c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference is at least about 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, 6 months, 7 months, 8 months, 9 months, 10 months, 11 months, 12 months, 1 year, eighteen months, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years, 7 years, 8 years, 9 years, 10 years or more less after treatment a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e. zoledronic acid, than the overall survival of a subject without an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference after treatment a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation, i.e. zoledronic acid. In embodiments, the subject is post menopausal. In other embodiments, the subject is non-post-menopausal. In some embodiments, the subject is premenopausal.
- In embodiments, the predictive power of MAF for the OS or DFS of a subject is based on the menopausal status of the subject. In some embodiments, MAF is predictive in postmenopausal, unknown and perimenopausl subjects at risk of a shorter DFS or worst OS. In other embodiments, in premenopausal subjects, MAF positive subjects are those at less risk and are more likely to have a longer DFS and better OS.
- In embodiments, the MAF status of the subject is predictive of the treatments that should be received by the subject. In embodiments, the c-MAF status in any of the embodiments herein includes 16923 or 16922-24 chromosomal locus amplification, copy gain or translocation or lack thereof, or 16q23 or 16q22-24 chromosomal locus deletions. In embodiments, post-menopausal patients with an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference (and are therefore at a high risk of a bad DFS or OS outcome) may be administered any treatment disclosed herein. In some embodiments, post menopausal patients with an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference (and are therefore at a high risk of a bad DFS or OS outcome) may be treated by extending their hormonal treatment beyond the five year time prescribed by the use of hormonal treatments as the standard of care. In certain embodiments, the hormonal treatment is Tamoxifen and/or aromatase inhibitors. Patients without an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference should not be administered a treatment disclosed herein.
- In a particular embodiment, the subject has metastasis or a prognosis to undergo metastasis. In some embodiments, the metastasis is a bone metastasis. In a further embodiment, the bone metastasis is osteolytic metastasis.
- In some embodiments, the sample is a primary tumor tissue sample of the subject. In a second step, the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification or gain obtained in the tumor sample of the subject is compared with the expression level, copy number, amplification or gain of said gene in a control sample. The determination of the c-MAF gene expression levels, copy number, amplification or gain must be related to values of a control sample or reference sample. Depending on the type of tumor to be analyzed, the exact nature of the control sample may vary. Thus, in some embodiments, the reference sample is a tumor tissue sample of a subject with breast cancer that has not metastasized, relapsed or reoccurred or that corresponds to the median value of the c-MAF gene expression levels, copy number, amplification or gain measured in a tumor tissue collection in biopsy samples of subjects with breast cancer which has not metastasized, relapsed or reoccurred.
- In one embodiment, the methods of the invention comprise in a second step comparing the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification or gain obtained in the tumor sample (including but not limited to a primary tumor biopsy, circulating tumor cells and circulating tumor DNA) from the subject with the expression level of said gene in a control sample.
- Once the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification or gain in a tumor tissue sample, a circulating tumor cell or circulating tumor DNA from a subject with breast cancer has been measured and compared with the control sample, if the expression level of said gene is increased with respect to its expression level in the control sample, then it can be concluded that said subject has a positive diagnosis for metastasis or a greater tendency to develop metastasis.
- The determination of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification or gain must be correlated with values of a control sample or reference sample. Depending on the type of tumor to be analyzed, the exact nature of the control sample may vary. Thus, in the event that a diagnosis is to be evaluated, then the reference sample is a tumor tissue sample from a subject with breast cancer that has not metastasized or that corresponds to the median value of the c-MAF gene expression levels measured in a tumor tissue collection in biopsy samples from subjects with breast cancer which have not metastasized.
- Said reference sample is typically obtained by combining equal amounts of samples from a subject population. Generally, the typical reference samples will be obtained from subjects who are clinically well documented and in whom the absence of metastasis is well characterized. In such samples, the normal concentrations (reference concentration) of the biomarker (c-MAF gene) can be determined, for example by providing the mean concentration over the reference population. Various considerations are taken into account when determining the reference concentration of the marker. Among such considerations are the age, weight, sex, general physical condition of the patient and the like. For example, equal amounts of a group of at least about 2, at least about 10, at least about 20, at least about 25, at least about 50, at least about 75, at least about 100, at least about 250, at least about 500, to more than 1000 subjects, classified according to the foregoing considerations, for example according to various age categories, are taken as the reference group. The sample collection from which the reference level is derived will preferably be formed by subjects suffering from the same type of cancer as the patient object of the study (e.g., breast cancer). Similarly, the reference value within a cohort of patients can be established using a receiving operating curve (ROC) and measuring the area under the curve for all de sensitivity and specificity pairs to determine which pair provides the best values and what the corresponding reference value is. ROC is a standard statistical concept. A description can be found in Stuart G. Baker “The Central Role of Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves in Evaluating Tests for the Early Detection of Cancer” Journal of The National Cancer Institute (2003)
Vol 95, No. 7, 511-515. - Once this median or reference value has been established, the level of this marker expressed in tumor tissues from patients with this median value can be compared and thus be assigned, for example, to the “increased” expression level. Due to the variability among subjects (for example, aspects referring to age, race, etc.) it is very difficult (if not virtually impossible) to establish absolute reference values of c-MAF expression. Thus, in particular embodiments the reference values for “increased” or “reduced” expression of the c-MAF expression are determined by calculating the percentiles by conventional means which involves performing assays in one or several samples isolated from subjects whose disease is well documented by any of the methods mentioned above the c-MAF expression levels. The “reduced” levels of c-MAF can then preferably be assigned to samples wherein the c-MAF expression levels are equal to or lower than 50th percentile in the normal population including, for example, expression levels equal to or lower than the 60th percentile in the normal population, equal to or lower than the 70th percentile in the normal population, equal to or lower than the 80th percentile in the normal population, equal to or lower than the 90th percentile in the normal population, and equal to or lower than the 95th percentile in the normal population. The “increased” c-MAF gene expression levels can then preferably be assigned to samples wherein the c-MAF gene expression levels are equal to or greater than the 50th percentile in the normal population including, for example, expression levels equal to or greater than the 60th percentile in the normal population, equal to or greater than the 70th percentile in the normal population, equal to or greater than the 80th percentile in the normal population, equal to or greater than the 90th percentile in the normal population, and equal to or greater than the 95th percentile in the normal population.
- In a particular embodiment, the degree of amplification or gain of the c-MAF gene can be determined by means of determining the amplification or gain of a chromosome region containing said gene. Preferably, the chromosome region the amplification or gain of which is indicative of the existence of amplification or gain of the c-MAF gene is the locus 16q22-q24 which includes the c-MAF gene. The locus 16q22-q24 is located in
chromosome 16, in the long arm of said chromosome and in a range betweenband 22 andband 24. This region corresponds in the NCBI database with the contigs NT_010498.15 and NT_010542.15. In an embodiment, the degree of amplification or gain of the c-MAF gene can be determined by means of using a probe specific for said gene. - When copy number is measured, the control sample refers to a tumor sample of a subject with breast cancer who has not suffered metastasis or that correspond to the median value of the c-MAF gene copy number measured in a tumor tissue collection in biopsy samples of subjects with breast cancer who have not suffered metastasis. Said reference sample is typically obtained by combining equal amounts of samples from a subject population. If the c-MAF gene copy number is increased with respect to the copy number of said gene in the control sample, then subject has a positive diagnosis for metastasis or a greater tendency to develop metastasis. In embodiments, the copy number is determined as the average copy number per cell.
- In some embodiments, the amplification or gain is in region at the 16q23 locus. In some embodiments, the amplification or gain is in any part of the chromosomal region between Chr. 16-79,392,959 bp to 79,663,806 bp (from centromere to telomere). In some embodiments, the amplification or gain is in the genomic region between Chr. 16-79,392,959 bp to 79,663,806 bp, but excluding DNA repeating elements. In some embodiments, amplification or gain is measured using a probe specific for that region.
- In an embodiment, the c-MAF gene is amplified with respect to a reference gene copy number when the c-MAF gene copy number is higher than the copy number that a reference sample or control sample has. In one example, the c-MAF gene is said to be “amplified” if the genomic copy number or the average genomic copy number of the c-MAF gene is increased by at least about 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, 6-, 7-, 8-, 9-, 10-, 15-, 20-, 25-, 30-, 35-, 40-, 45-, or 50-fold in a test sample relative to a control sample. In another example, a c-MAF gene is said to be “amplified” if the genomic copy number or the average genomic copy number of the c-MAF gene per cell is at least about 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 25., 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, and the like.
- In another embodiment, the reference gene copy number is the gene copy number in a sample of breast cancer from a subject who has not suffered bone metastasis.
- In another embodiment, the amplification or gain is determined by means of in situ hybridization or PCR.
- In another embodiment and as described in the present invention, given that the chr16q22-24, including the c-MAF gene, is amplified in breast cancer cells is related to the presence of metastasis, relapse or recurrence the chr16q22-24, including the c-MAF gene, amplification or gain allow making decisions in terms of the most suitable therapy for the subject suffering said cancer.
- The determination of the amplification of the c-MAF gene needs to be correlated with values of a control sample or reference sample that correspond to the level of amplification of the c-MAF gene measured in a tumor tissue sample of a subject with breast cancer who has not suffered metastasis or that correspond to the median value of the amplification of the c-MAF gene measured in a tumor tissue collection in biopsy samples of subjects with breast cancer who have not suffered metastasis. Said reference sample is typically obtained by combining equal amounts of samples from a subject population.
- In general, the typical reference samples will be obtained from subjects who are clinically well documented and in whom the absence of metastasis is well characterized. The sample collection from which the reference level is derived will preferably be made up of subjects suffering the same type of cancer as the patient object of the study. Once this median value has been established, the level of amplification of c-MAF in tumor tissues of patients can be compared with this median value, and thus, if there is amplification, the subject has a positive diagnosis of metastasis or a greater tendency to develop metastasis.
- In another aspect, the invention relates to determining if the c-MAF gene is translocated in a sample of said subject.
- In some embodiments, the translocated gene is from the region at the 16q23 locus. In some embodiments, the translocated gene is from any part of the chromosomal region between Chr. 16-79,392,959 bp to 79,663,806 bp (from centromere to telomere). In some embodiments, the translocated gene is from the genomic region between Chr. 16-79,392,959 bp to 79,663,806 bp, but excluding DNA repeating elements. In some embodiments, the translocation is measured using a probe specific for that region.
- In a particular embodiment, the translocation of the c-MAF gene can be determined by means of determining the translocation of a chromosome region containing said gene. In one embodiment, the translocation is the t(14,16) translocation. In another embodiment, the chromosome region that is translocated is from locus 16q22-q24. The locus 16q22-q24 is located in
chromosome 16, in the long arm of said chromosome and in a range betweenband 22 andband 24. This region corresponds in the NCBI database with the contigs NT_010498.15 and NT_010542.15. In an embodiment, the c-MAF gene translocates tochromosome 14 at the locus 14q32, resulting in the translocation t(14,16)(q32,q23). This translocation places the MAF gene next to the strong enhancers in the IgH locus, which, in some cases, leads to overexpression of MAF. (Eychene, A., Rocques, N., and Puoponnot, C., A new MAFia in cancer. 2008. Nature Reviews: Cancer. 8: 683-693.) - In an embodiment, the translocation of the c-MAF gene can be determined by means of using a probe specific for said translocation.
- One embodiment of the invention comprises a method in which in a first step it is determined if the c-MAF gene is translocated in a sample of a subject. In an embodiment, the sample is a tumor tissue sample.
- In a particular embodiment, a method of the invention for the prognosis of the tendency to develop bone metastasis in a subject with breast cancer comprises determining the c-MAF gene copy number in a sample of said subject wherein the c-MAF gene is translocated and comparing said copy number with the copy number of a control or reference sample, wherein if the c-MAF copy number is greater with respect to the c-MAF copy number of a control sample, then the subject has a greater tendency to develop bone metastasis.
- Methods for determining whether the c-MAF gene or the chromosome region 16q22-q24 is translocated are widely known in the state of the art and include those described previously for the amplification of c-MAF. Said methods include, without limitation, in situ hybridization (ISH) (such as fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), chromogenic in situ hybridization (CISH) or silver in situ hybridization (SISH)), genomic comparative hybridization or polymerase chain reaction (such as real time quantitative PCR). For any ISH method, the amplification, the gain, the copy number, or the translocation can be determined by counting the number of fluorescent points, colored points or points with silver in the chromosomes or in the nucleus. In other embodiments, the detection of copy number alterations and translocations can be detected through the use of whole genome sequencing, exome sequencing or by the use of any PCR derived technology. For instance, PCR can be performed on samples of genomic DNA to detect translocation. In one embodiment, quantitative PCR is used. In one embodiment, PCR is performed with a primer specific to the c-MAF gene and a primer specific to the IGH promoter region; if a product is produced, translocation has occurred.
- In some embodiments, the amplification, gain and copy number of the c-MAF gene are determined after translocation of the c-MAF gene is determined. In some embodiments, a probe is used to determine if the cell is polyploid for the c-MAF gene. In some embodiments, a determination of polyploidy is made by determining if there are more than 2 signals from the gene of interest. In some embodiments, polyploidy is determined by measuring the signal from the probe specific for the gene of interest and comparing it with a centromeric probe or other probe.
- Methods of Measuring c-MAF Expression, Copy Number, Amplification, Gain and Translocation
- In some embodiments, the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, gain or translocation is measured using any method known in the art or described herein.
- The c-MAF protein expression level can be quantified by any conventional method that allows detecting and quantifying said protein in a sample from a subject. By way of non-limiting illustration, said protein levels can be quantified, for example, by using antibodies with c-MAF binding capacity (or a fragment thereof containing an antigenic determinant) and the subsequent quantification of the complexes formed. The antibodies used in these assays may or may not be labeled. Illustrative examples of markers that can be used include radioactive isotopes, enzymes, fluorophores, chemiluminescence reagents, enzyme substrates or cofactors, enzyme inhibitors, particles, dyes, etc. There is a wide range of known assays that can be used in the present invention which use unlabeled antibodies (primary antibody) and labeled antibodies (secondary antibody); these techniques include Western-blot or Western transfer, ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay), RIA (radioimmunoassay), competitive EIA (competitive enzyme immunoassay), DAS-ELISA (double antibody sandwich ELISA), immunocytochemical and immunohistochemical techniques, techniques based on the use of protein microarrays or biochips including specific antibodies or assays based on colloidal precipitation in formats such as dipsticks. Other ways for detecting and quantifying said c-MAF protein include affinity chromatography techniques, ligand binding assays, etc. When an immunological method is used, any antibody or reagent that is known to bind to the c-MAF protein with a high affinity can be used for detecting the amount thereof. This would include, but is not limited to, the use of an antibody, for example, polyclonal sera, supernatants of hybridomas or monoclonal antibodies, antibody fragments, Fv, Fab, Fab′ and F(ab′)2, scFv, humanized diabodies, triabodies, tetrabodies, antibodies, nanobodies, alphabodies, stapled peptides, and cyclopeptides. There are commercial anti-c-MAF protein antibodies on the market which can be used in the context of the present invention, such as for example antibodies ab427, ab55502, ab55502, ab72584, ab76817, ab77071 (Abcam plc, 330 Science Park, Cambridge CB4 OFL, United Kingdom), the 075444 monoclonal antibody (Mouse Anti-Human MAF Azide free Monoclonal antibody, Unconjugated, Clone 6b8) of AbD Serotec, etc. There are many commercial companies offering anti-c-MAF antibodies, such as Abnova Corporation, Bethyl Laboratories, Bioworld Technology, GeneTex, etc.
- In some embodiments, the c-MAF protein levels are detected by an antigen binding member or fragment thereof. In some embodiments, the binding member is an antigen binding molecule or fragment thereof that binds to human c-MAF, wherein the antibody binding molecule or fragment thereof comprises a heavy chain CDR1 at least about 70%, about 75%, about 80%, about 85%, about 90%, about 95%, about 99% or about 100% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 21, and/or a heavy chain CDR2 at least about 70%, about 75%, about 80%, about 85%, about 90%, about 95%, about 99% or about 100% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 22, and/or a heavy chain CDR3 at least about 70%, about 75%, about 80%, about 85%, about 90%, about 95%, about 99% or about 100% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 23; and/or comprising a light chain CDR1 at least about 70%, about 75%, about 80%, about 85%, about 90%, about 95%, about 99% or about 100% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 18, and/or a light chain CDR2 at least about 70%, about 75%, about 80%, about 85%, about 90%, about 95%, about 99% or about 100% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 19 and/or a light chain CDR3 at least about 70%, about 75%, about 80%, about 85%, about 90%, about 95%, about 99% or about 100% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 20.
- In some embodiments, the antibody or fragment thereof comprises a VH domain with a sequence that is at least about 70%, at least about 75%, at least about 80%, at least about 85%, at least about 90%, at least about 95%, at least about 99%, at least about 99%, or at least about 100% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 15.
- In some embodiments, the antigen binding molecule or fragment thereof comprises a VL domain with a sequence that is at least about 70%, at least about 75%, at least about 80%, at least about 85%, at least about 90%, at least about 95%, at least about 99%, at least about 99%, or at least about 100% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 17.
- In some embodiments, the antibody or fragment thereof comprises a heavy chain sequence that is at least about 70%, at least about 75%, at least about 80%, at least about 85%, at least about 90%, at least about 95%, at least about 99%, at least about 99%, or at least about 100% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 14.
- In some embodiments, the antibody or fragment thereof comprises a light chain sequence that is at least about 70%, at least about 75%, at least about 80%, at least about 85%, at least about 90%, at least about 95%, at least about 99%, at least about 99%, or at least about 100% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 16.
- In some embodiments, the antigen binding molecule or fragment thereof is an antibody. In some embodiments, the antibody is a rabbit antibody, a mouse antibody, a chimeric antibody or a humanized antibody. In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a binding member, functional fragment, antibody or variant thereof that specifically binds to the epitope encoded by SEQ ID NO: 24. In some embodiments, the antibody is any antibody described in Int'l. Appl. No. PCT/IB2015/059562, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
- In a particular embodiment, the c-MAF protein levels are quantified means of western blot, immunohistochemistry, ELISA or a protein array.
- As understood by the person skilled in the art, the gene expression levels can be quantified by measuring the messenger RNA levels of said gene or of the protein encoded by said gene. In some embodiment, the gene expression level can be quantified by any means known in the art.
- For this purpose, the biological sample can be treated to physically or mechanically break up the tissue or cell structure, releasing the intracellular components into an aqueous or organic solution for preparing nucleic acids. The nucleic acids are extracted by means of commercially available methods known by the person skilled in the art (Sambroock, J., et al., “Molecular cloning: a Laboratory Manual”, 3rd ed., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, N.Y., Vol. 1-3.)
- Thus, the c-MAF gene expression level can be quantified from the RNA resulting from the transcription of said gene (messenger RNA or mRNA) or, alternatively, from the complementary DNA (cDNA) of said gene. Therefore, in a particular embodiment of the invention, the quantification of the c-MAF gene expression levels comprises the quantification of the messenger RNA of the c-MAF gene or a fragment of said mRNA, complementary DNA of the c-MAF gene or a fragment of said cDNA or the mixture thereof.
- Virtually any conventional method can be used within the scope of the invention for detecting and quantifying the mRNA levels encoded by the c-MAF gene or of the corresponding cDNA thereof. By way of non-limiting illustration, the mRNA levels encoded by said gene can be quantified using conventional methods, for example, methods comprising mRNA amplification and the quantification of said mRNA amplification product, such as electrophoresis and staining, or alternatively, by Southern blot and using suitable probes, Northern blot and using specific probes of the mRNA of the gene of interest (c-MAF) or of the corresponding cDNA thereof, mapping with S1 nuclease, RT-PCR, hybridization, microarrays, etc., preferably by means of real time quantitative PCR using a suitable marker. Likewise, the cDNA levels corresponding to the mRNA encoded by the c-MAF gene can also be quantified by means of using conventional techniques; in this case, the method of the invention includes a step for synthesizing the corresponding cDNA by means of reverse transcription (RT) of the corresponding mRNA followed by the amplification and quantification of said cDNA amplification product. Conventional methods for quantifying expression levels can be found, for example, in Sambrook et al., 2001. (cited ad supra). These methods are known in the art and a person skilled in the art would be familiar with the normalizations necessary for each technique. For example, the expression measurements generated using multiplex PCR should be normalized by comparing the expression of the genes being measured to so called “housekeeping” genes, the expression of which should be constant over all samples, thus providing a baseline expression to compare against or other control genes whose expression are known to be modulated with cancer.
- In a particular embodiment, the c-MAF gene expression levels are quantified by means of quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) or a DNA, RNA array, or nucleotide hybridization technique.
- In addition, the c-MAF gene expression level can also be quantified by means of quantifying the expression levels of the protein encoded by said gene, i.e., the c-MAF protein (c-MAF) [NCBI, accession number 075444], or any functionally equivalent variant of the c-MAF protein. There are two c-MAF protein isoforms, the a isoform (NCBI, NP_005351.2) made up of 403 amino acids (SEQ ID NO: 4) and the R isoform (NP_001026974.1) made up of 373 amino acids (SEQ ID NO: 5). The c-MAF gene expression level can be quantified by means of quantifying the expression levels of any of the c-MAF protein isoforms. Thus, in a particular embodiment, the quantification of the levels of the protein encoded by the c-MAF gene comprises the quantification of the c-MAF protein.
- Methods for determining whether the c-MAF gene or the chromosome region 16q22-q24 is amplified are widely known in the state of the art. Said methods include, without limitation, in situ hybridization (ISH) (such as fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), chromogenic in situ hybridization (CISH) or silver in situ hybridization (SISH)), genomic comparative hybridization or polymerase chain reaction (such as real time quantitative PCR). For any ISH method, the amplification, gain or the copy number can be determined by counting the number of fluorescent points, colored points or points with silver in the chromosomes or in the nucleus.
- The fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is a cytogenetic technique which is used for detecting and locating the presence or absence of specific DNA sequences in chromosomes. FISH uses fluorescence probes which only bind to some parts of the chromosome with which they show a high degree of sequence similarity. In a typical FISH method, the DNA probe is labeled with a fluorescent molecule or a hapten, typically in the form of fluor-dUTP, digoxigenin-dUTP, biotin-dUTP or hapten-dUTP which is incorporated in the DNA using enzymatic reactions, such as nick translation or PCR. The sample containing the genetic material (the chromosomes) is placed on glass slides and is denatured by a formamide treatment. The labeled probe is then hybridized with the sample containing the genetic material under suitable conditions which will be determined by the person skilled in the art. After the hybridization, the sample is viewed either directly (in the case of a probe labeled with fluorine) or indirectly (using fluorescently labeled antibodies to detect the hapten).
- In the case of CISH, the probe is labeled with digoxigenin, biotin or fluorescein and is hybridized with the sample containing the genetic material in suitable conditions.
- Methods for determining whether the c-MAF gene or the chromosome region 16q22-q24 is translocated are widely known in the state of the art and include those described previously for the amplification of c-MAF. Said methods include, without limitation, in situ hybridization (ISH) (such as fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), chromogenic in situ hybridization (CISH) or silver in situ hybridization (SISH)), genomic comparative hybridization or polymerase chain reaction (such as real time quantitative PCR). For any ISH method, the amplification, the gain, the copy number, or the translocation can be determined by counting the number of fluorescent points, colored points or points with silver in the chromosomes or in the nucleus. In other embodiments, the detection of copy number alterations and translocations can be detected through the use of whole genome sequencing, exome sequencing or by the use of any PCR derived technology. For instance, PCR can be performed on samples of genomic DNA to detect translocation. In one embodiment, quantitative PCR is used. In one embodiment, PCR is performed with a primer specific to the c-MAF gene and a primer specific to the IGH promoter region; if a product is produced, translocation has occurred.
- Any marking or labeling molecule which can bind to a DNA can be used to label the probes used in the methods of the invention, thus allowing the detection of nucleic acid molecules. Examples of labels for the labeling include, although not limited to, radioactive isotopes, enzyme substrates, cofactors, ligands, chemiluminescence agents, fluorophores, haptens, enzymes and combinations thereof. Methods for labeling and guideline for selecting suitable labels for different purposes can be found, for example, in Sambrook et al. (Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 1989) and Ausubel et al. (In Current Protocols in Molecular Biology, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1998).
- In some embodiments, a probe of the invention is a dual color probe. In some embodiments, a probe of the invention is a dual fusion probe. In some embodiments, a probe of the invention is a dual color, dual fusion probe. In some embodiments, two separate probes are used.
- In another embodiment, one of the following probes is used to measure the c-MAF gene (including translation of the c-MAF gene): the Vysis LSI IGH/MAF Dual Color dual fusion probe, which comprises a probe against 14q32 and 16q23; a Kreatech diagnostics MAF/IGH gt(14;16) Fusion probe, an Abnova MAF FISH probe, a Cancer Genetics Italia IGH/MAF Two Color, Two Fusion translocation probe, a Creative Bioarray IGH/MAF-t(14;16)(q32;q23) FISH probe, a Arup Laboratories multiple myeloma panel by FISH, an Agilent probe specific to 16q23 or 14q32, a Dako probe specific to 16q23 or 14q32, a Cytocell IGH/MAF Translocation, Dual Fusion Probe, a Metasystems XL IGH/MAF Translocation—Dual Fusion Probe, a Zeiss FISH Probes XL, 100 μl, IGH/MAFB or a Genycell Biotech IGH/MAF Dual Fusion Probe.
- In some embodiments, the label on the probe is a fluorophore. In some embodiments, the fluorophore on the probe is orange. In some embodiments, the fluorophore on the probe is green. In some embodiments, the fluorophore on the probe is red. In some cases, the fluorophore on the probe is yellow. In some embodiments, one probe is labeled with a red fluorophore, and one with a green fluorophore. In some embodiments, one probe is labeled with a green fluorophore and one with an orange fluorophore. In some cases, the fluorophore on the probe is yellow. For instance, if the MAF-specific probe is labeled with a red fluorophore, and the IGH-specific probe is labeled with a green fluorophore, if white is seen it indicates that the signals overlap and translocation has occurred.
- In some embodiments, the fluorophore is SpectrumOrange. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is SpectrumGreen. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is DAPI. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is PlatinumBright405 In some embodiments, the fluorophore is PlatinumBright415. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is PlatinumBright495. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is PlatinumBright505. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is PlatinumBright550. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is PlatinumBright547. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is PlatinumBright570. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is PlatinumBright590. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is PlatinumBright647. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is PlatinumBright495/550. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is PlatinumBright415/495/550. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is DAPI/PlatinumBright495/550. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is FITC. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is Texas Red. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is DEAC. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is R6G. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is Cy5. In some embodiments, the fluorophore is FITC, Texas Red and DAPI. In some embodiments, a DAPI counterstain is used to visualize the translocation, amplification, gain or copy number alteration.
- In some embodiments, the methods of the invention herein include treating subjects with agents for avoiding or preventing bone remodelling. As used herein, an “agent for avoiding or preventing bone remodelling” refers to any molecule capable of treating or stopping bone degradation either by stimulating the osteoblast proliferation or inhibiting the osteoclast proliferation, including agents for avoiding or preventing bone degradation. In embodiments, the agent for avoiding or preventing bone remodeling is a bone modifying agent and/or an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation. Illustrative examples of agents used for avoiding and/or preventing bone degradation include, although not limited to:
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- Parathyroid hormone (PTH) and Parathyroid like hormone (PTHLH) inhibitors (including blocking antibodies) or recombinant forms thereof (teriparatide corresponding to the amino acids 7-34 of PTH). This hormone acts by stimulating the osteoclasts and increasing their activity.
- Strontium ranelate: is an alternative oral treatment, and forms part of the group of drugs called “dual action bone agents” (DABAs) because they stimulate the osteoblast proliferation and inhibit the osteoclast proliferation.
- “Estrogen receptor modulators” (SERM) refers to compounds which interfere or inhibit the binding of estrogens to the receptor, regardless of the mechanism. Examples of estrogen receptor modulators include, among others, estrogens progestagen, estradiol, droloxifene, raloxifene, lasofoxifene, TSE-424, tamoxifen, idoxifene, L Y353381, LY117081, toremifene, fluvestrant, 4-[7-(2,2-dimethyl-1-oxopropoxy-4-methyl-2-[4-[2-(1-piperidinyl)ethoxy]phenyl]-2H-1-benzopyran-3-yl]-phenyl-2,2-
dimethylpropanoate - Calcitonin: directly inhibits the osteoclast activity through the calcitonin receptor. The calcitonin receptors have been identified on the surface of the osteoclasts.
- Bisphosphonates: are a group of medicinal products used for the prevention and the treatment of diseases with bone resorption and reabsorption such as osteoporosis and cancer with bone metastasis, the latter being with or without hypercalcaemia, associated to breast cancer. Examples of bisphosphonates which can be used in the therapy designed by means of the fifth method of the invention include, although not limited to, nitrogenous bisphosphonates (such as pamidronate, neridronate, olpadronate, alendronate, ibandronate, risedronate, incadronate, zoledronate or zoledronic acid, etc.) and non-nitrogenous bisphosphonates (such as etidronate, clodronate, tiludronate, etc.).
- “Cathepsin K inhibitors” refers to compounds which interfere in the cathepsin K cysteine protease activity. Non-limiting examples of cathepsin K inhibitors include 4-amino-pyrimidine-2-carbonitrile derivatives (described in the International patent application WO 03/020278 under the name of Novartis Pharma GMBH), pyrrolo-pyrimidines described in the publication WO 03/020721 (Novartis Pharma GMBH) and the publication WO 04/000843 (ASTRAZENECA AB) as well as the inhibitors described in the publications PCT WO 00/55126 of Axys Pharmaceuticals, WO 01/49288 of Merck Frosst Canada & Co. and Axys Pharmaceuticals.
- “DKK-1(Dickkopf-1) inhibitor” as used herein refers to any compound which is capable of reducing DKK-1 activity. DKK-1 is a soluble Wnt pathway antagonist expressed predominantly in adult bone and upregulated in myeloma patients with osteolytic lesions. Agents targeting DKK-1 may play a role in preventing osteolytic bone disease in multiple myeloma patients. BHQ880 from Novartis is a first-in-class, fully human, anti-DKK-1 neutralizing antibody. Preclinical studies support the hypothesis that BHQ880 promotes bone formation and thereby inhibits tumor-induced osteolytic disease (Ettenberg S. et al., American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting. Apr. 12-16, 2008; San Diego, Calif. Abstract).
- “Dual MET and VEGFR2 inhibitor” as used herein refers to any compound which is a potent dual inhibitor of the MET and VEGF pathways designed to block MET driven tumor escape. MET is expressed not only in tumor cells and endothelial cells, but also in osteoblasts (bone-forming cells) and osteoclasts (bone-removing cells). HGF binds to MET on all of these cell types, giving the MET pathway an important role in multiple autocrine and paracrine loops. Activation of MET in tumor cells appears to be important in the establishment of metastatic bone lesions. At the same time, activation of the MET pathway in osteoblasts and osteoclasts may lead to pathological features of bone metastases, including abnormal bone growth (i.e., blastic lesions) or destruction (i.e., lytic lesion. Thus, targeting the MET pathway may be a viable strategy in preventing the establishment and progression of metastatic bone lesions. Cabozantinib (Exelixis, Inc), formerly known as XL184 (CAS 849217-68-1), is a potent dual inhibitor of the MET and VEGF pathways designed to block MET driven tumor escape. In multiple preclinical studies cabozantinib has been shown to kill tumor cells, reduce metastases, and inhibit angiogenesis (the formation of new blood vessels necessary to support tumor growth). Another suitable dual inhibitors are E7050 (N-[2-Fluoro-4-({2-[4-(4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)piperidin-1-yl]carbonylaminopyridin-4-yl} oxy) phenyl]-N′-(4-fluorophenyl) cyclopropane-1,1-dicarboxamide (2R,3R)-tartrate) (CAS 928037-13-2) or Foretinib (also known as GSK1363089, XL880, CAS 849217-64-7).
- “RANKL inhibitors” as used herein refer to any compound which is capable of reducing the RANK activity. RANKL is found on the surface of the osteoblast membrane of the stroma and T-lymphocyte cells, and these T-lymphocyte cells are the only ones which have demonstrated the capacity for secreting it. Its main function is the activation of the osteoclasts, cells involved in the bone resorption. The RANKL inhibitors can act by blocking the binding of RANKL to its receptor (RANK), blocking the RANK-mediated signaling or reducing the expression of RANKL by blocking the transcription or the translation of RANKL. RANKL antagonists or inhibitors suitable for use in the present invention include, without limitation:
- a suitable RANK protein which is capable of binding RANKL and which comprises the entire or a fragment of the extracellular domain of a RANK protein. The soluble RANK may comprise the signal peptide and the extracellular domain of the murine or human RANK polypeptides, or alternatively, the mature form of the protein with the signal peptide removed can be used.
- Osteoprotegerin or a variant thereof with RANKL-binding capacity.
- RANKL-specific antisense molecules
- Ribozymes capable of processing the transcribed products of RANKL
- Specific anti-RANKL antibodies. “Anti-RANKL antibody or antibody directed against RANKL” is understood herein as all that antibody which is capable of binding specifically to the ligand of the activating receptor for the nuclear factor xB (RANKL) inhibiting one or more RANKL functions. The antibodies can be prepared using any of the methods which are known by the person skilled in the art. Thus, the polyclonal antibodies are prepared by means of immunizing an animal with the protein to be inhibited. The monoclonal antibodies are prepared using the method described by Kohler, Milstein et al. (Nature, 1975, 256: 495). Antibodies suitable in the context of the present invention include intact antibodies which comprise a variable antigen binding region and a constant region, fragments “Fab”, “F(ab′)2” and “Fab′”, Fv, scFv, diabodies and bispecific antibodies.
- Specific anti-RANKL nanobodies. Nanobodies are antibody-derived therapeutic proteins that contain the unique structural and functional properties of naturally-occurring heavy-chain antibodies. The Nanobody technology was originally developed following the discovery that camelidae (camels and llamas) possess fully functional antibodies that lack light chains. The general structure of nanobodies is
- FR1-CDR1-FR2-CDR2-FR3-CDR3-FR4
- wherein FR1 to FR4 are the
framework regions 1 to 4 CDR1 to CDR3 are thecomplementarity determining regions 1 to 3. These heavy-chain antibodies contain a single variable domain (VHH) and two constant domains (CH2 and CH3). Importantly, the cloned and isolated VHH domain is a perfectly stable polypeptide harboring the full antigen-binding capacity of the original heavy-chain antibody. These newly discovered VHH domains with their unique structural and functional properties form the basis of a new generation of therapeutic antibodies which Ablynx has named Nanobodies.
- wherein FR1 to FR4 are the
- In one embodiment, the RANKL inhibitor is selected from the group consisting of a RANKL specific antibody, a RANKL specific nanobody and osteoprotegerin. In a specific embodiment, the anti-RANKL antibody is a monoclonal antibody. In a yet more specific embodiment, the anti-RANKL antibody is Denosumab (Pageau, Steven C. (2009). mAbs 1 (3): 210-215, CAS number 615258-40-7) (the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference). Denosumab is a fully human monoclonal antibody which binds to RANKL and prevents its activation (it does not bind to the RANK receptor). Various aspects of Denosumab are covered by U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,740,522; 7,411,050; 7,097,834; 7,364,736 (the entire contents of each of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety). In another embodiment, the RANKL inhibitor an antibody, antibody fragment, or fusion construct that binds the same epitope as Denosumab.
- In an embodiment, the anti-RANKL nanobody is any of the nanobodies as described in WO2008142164, (the contents of which are incorporated in the present application by reference). In an embodiment, the anti-RANKL antibody is the ALX-0141 (Ablynx). ALX-0141 has been designed to inhibit bone loss associated with post-menopausal osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer and certain medications, and to restore the balance of healthy bone metabolism.
- In an embodiment, the agent preventing the bone degradation is selected from the group consisting of a bisphosphonate, a RANKL inhibitor, PTH and PTHLH inhibitor or a PRG analog, strontium ranelate, a DKK-1 inhibitor, a dual MET and VEGFR2 inhibitor, an estrogen receptor modulator, Radium-223, calcitonin, and a cathepsin K inhibitor. In an embodiment the agent preventing the bone degradation is a bisphosphonate. In an embodiment, the bisphosphonate is zoledronic acid.
- In one embodiment, a CCR5 antagonist is administered to prevent or inhibit metastasis of the primary breast cancer tumor to bone or relapse or recurrence. In one embodiment, the CCR5 antagonist is a large molecule. In another embodiment, the CCR5 antagonist is a small molecule. In some embodiments, the CCR5 antagonist is Maraviroc. In some embodiments, the CCR5 antagonist is Vicriviroc. In some aspects, the CCR5 antagonist is Aplaviroc. In some aspects, the CCR5 antagonist is a spiropiperidine CCR5 antagonist. (Rotstein D. M. et al. 2009. Spiropiperidine CCR5 antagonists. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 19 (18): 5401-5406. In some embodiments, the CCR5 antagonist is INCB009471 (Kuritzkes, D. R. 2009. HIV-1 entry inhibitors: an overview. Curr. Opin. HIV AIDS. 4(2): 82-7).
- In an embodiment the dual MET and VEGFR2 inhibitor is selected from the group consisting of Cabozantinib, Foretinib and E7050.
- In embodiments, the MAF status is predictive of the treatments that should be received by the subject. In embodiments, the c-MAF status in any of the embodiments herein includes 16923 or 16922-24 chromosomal locus amplification, copy gain or translocation or lack thereof, or 16q23 or 16q22-24 chromosomal locus deletions. In embodiments, post-menopausal patients with an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference (and are therefore at a high risk of a bad DFS or OS outcome) may be administered any treatment disclosed herein. In some embodiments, post menopausal patients with an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference (and are therefore at a high risk of a bad DFS or OS outcome) may be treated by extending their hormonal treatment beyond the five year time prescribed by the use of hormonal treatments as the standard of care. In certain embodiments, the hormonal treatment is Tamoxifen and/or aromatase inhibitors. Patients without an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to a reference should not be administered a treatment disclosed herein.
- In another aspect, the treatment is an mTor inhibitor. In some aspects, the mTor inhibitor is a dual mTor/PI3kinase inhibitor. In some aspects, the mTor inhibitor is used to prevent or inhibit metastasis, relapse or recurrence. In some aspects the mTor inhibitor is selected from the group consisting of: ABI009 (sirolimus), rapamycin (sirolimus), Abraxane (paclitaxel), Absorb (everolimus), Afinitor (everolimus), Afinitor with Gleevec, AS703026 (pimasertib), Axxess (umirolimus), AZD2014, BEZ235, Biofreedom (umirolimus), BioMatrix (umirolimus), BioMatrix flex (umirolimus), CC115, CC223, Combo Bio-engineered Sirolimus Eluting Stent ORBUSNEICH (sirolimus), Curaxin CBLC102 (mepacrine), DE109 (sirolimus), DS3078, Endeavor DES (zotarolimus), Endeavor Resolute (zotarolimus), Femara (letrozole), Hocena (antroquinonol), INK128, Inspiron (sirolimus), IPI504 (retaspimycin hydrochloride), KRN951 (tivozanib), ME344, MGA031 (teplizumab), MiStent SES (sirolimus), MKC1, Nobori (umirolimus), OSI027, OVI123 (cordycepin), Palomid 529, PF04691502, Promus Element (everolimus), PWT33597, Rapamune (sirolimus), Resolute DES (zotarolimus), RG7422, SAR245409, SF1126, SGN75 (vorsetuzumab mafodotin), Synergy (everolimus), Taltorvic (ridaforolimus), Tarceva (erlotinib), Torisel (temsirolimus), Xience Prime (everolimus), Xience V (everolimus), Zomaxx (zotarolimus), Zortress (everolimus), Zotarolimus Eluting Peripheral Stent MEDTRONIC (zotarolimus), AP23841, AP24170, ARmTOR26, BN107, BN108, Canstatin GENZYME (canstatin), CU906, EC0371, EC0565, KI1004, LOR220, NV128, Rapamycin ONCOIMMUNE (sirolimus), SB2602, Sirolimus PNP SAMYANG BIOPHARMACEUTICALS (sirolimus), TOP216, VLI27, VS5584, WYE125132, XL388, Advacan (everolimus), AZD8055, Cypher Select Plus Sirolimus eluting Coronary Stent (sirolimus), Cypher Sirolimus eluting coronary stent (sirolimus), Drug Coated Balloon (sirolimus), E-Magic Plus (sirolimus), Emtor (sirolimus), Esprit (everolimus), Evertor (everolimus), HBF0079, LCP-Siro (sirolimus), Limus CLARIS (sirolimus), mTOR Inhibitor CELLZOME, Nevo Sirolimus eluting Coronary Stent (sirolimus), nPT-mTOR, Rapacan (sirolimus), Renacept (sirolimus), ReZolve (sirolimus), Rocas (sirolimus), SF1126, Sirolim (sirolimus), Sirolimus NORTH CHINA (sirolimus), Sirolimus RANBAXY (sirolimus), Sirolimus WATSON (sirolimus) Siropan (sirolimus), Sirova (sirolimus), Supralimus (sirolimus), Supralimus-Core (sirolimus), Tacrolimus WATSON (tacrolimus), TAFA93, Temsirolimus ACCORD (temsirolimus), Temsirolimus SANDOZ (temsirolimus), TOP216, Xience Prime (everolimus), Xience V (everolimus). In a specific aspect the mTor inhibitor is Afinitor (everolimus). In another aspect, mTor inhibitors can be identified through methods known in the art. (See, e.g., Zhou, H. et al. Updates of mTor inhibitors. 2010. Anticancer Agents Med. Chem. 10(7): 571-81, which is herein incorporated by reference). In some aspects, the mTor inhibitor is used to treat or prevent or inhibit metastasis in a patient that is positive for a hormone receptor. (See. e.g., Baselga, J., el al., Everolimus in Postmenopausal Hormone-Receptor Positive Advanced Breast Cancer. 2012. N. Engl. J. Med. 366(6): 520-529). In some aspects, the mTor inhibitor is used to treat or prevent or inhibit metastasis in a patient with advanced breast cancer. In some aspects, the mTor inhibitor is used in combination with a second treatment. In some aspects, the second treatment is any treatment described herein.
- In another aspect, the treatment is a Src kinase inhibitor. In some aspects, the Src inhibitor is used to prevent or inhibit metastasis, relapse or recurrence. In some aspects, the Src kinase inhibitor is selected from the group: AZD0530 (saracatinib), Bosulif (bosutinib), ENMD981693, KD020, KX01, Sprycel (dasatinib), Yervoy (ipilimumab), AP23464, AP23485, AP23588, AZD0424, c-Src Kinase Inhibitor KISSEI, CU201, KX2361, SKS927, SRN004, SUNK706, TG100435, TG100948, AP23451, Dasatinib HETERO (dasatinib), Dasatinib VALEANT (dasatinib), Fontrax (dasatinib), Src Kinase Inhibitor KINEX, VX680, (tozasertib lactate), XL228, and SUNK706. In some embodiments, the Src kinase inhibitor is dasatinib. In another aspect, Src kinase inhibitors can be identified through methods known in the art (See, e.g., Sen, B. and Johnson, F. M. Regulation of Src Family Kinases in Human Cancers. 2011. J. Signal Transduction. 2011: 14 pages, which is herein incorporated by reference). In some aspects, the Src kinase inhibitor is used to treat or prevent or inhibit metastasis, relapse or recurrence in a patient that is positive for the SRC-responsive signature (SRS). In some aspects, the patient is SRS+ and ER−. (See. e.g., Zhang, CH.-F, et al. Latent Bone Metastasis in Breast Cancer Tied to Src-Dependent survival signals. 2009. Cancer Cell. 16: 67-78, which is herein incorporated by reference.) In some aspects, the Src kinase inhibitor is used to treat or prevent or inhibit metastasis in a patient with advanced breast cancer. In some aspects, the Src kinase inhibitor is used in combination with a second treatment. In some aspects, the second treatment is any treatment described herein.
- In another aspect, the treatment is a COX-2 inhibitor. In some aspects, the COX-2 inhibitor is used to prevent or inhibit metastasis, relapse or recurrence. In some aspects, the COX-2 inhibitor is selected from the group: ABT963, Acetaminophen ER JOHNSON (acetaminophen), Acular X (ketorolac tromethamine), BAY1019036 (aspirin), BAY987111 (diphenhydramine, naproxen sodium), BAYl1902 (piroxicam), BCIBUCH001 (ibuprofen), Capoxigem (apricoxib), CS502, CS670 (pelubiprofen), Diclofenac HPBCD (diclofenac), Diractin (ketoprofen), GW406381, HCT1026 (nitroflurbiprofen), Hyanalgese-D (diclofenac), HydrocoDex (acetaminophen, dextromethorphan, hydrocodone), Ibuprofen Sodium PFIZER (ibuprofen sodium), Ibuprofen with Acetaminophen PFIZER (acetaminophen, ibuprofen), Impracor (ketoprofen), IP880 (diclofenac), IP940 (indomethacin), ISV205 (diclofenac sodium), JNS013 (acetaminophen, tramadol hydrochloride), Ketoprofen TDS (ketoprofen), LTNS001 (naproxen etemesil), Mesalamine SALIX (mesalamine), Mesalamine SOFAR (mesalamine), Mesalazine (mesalamine), ML3000 (licofelone), MRX7EAT (etodolac), Naproxen IROKO (naproxen), NCX4016 (nitroaspirin), NCX701 (nitroacetaminophen), Nuprin SCOLR (ibuprofen), OMS103HP (amitriptyline hydrochloride, ketoprofen, oxymetazoline hydrochloride), Oralease (diclofenac), OxycoDex (dextromethorphan, oxycodone), P54, PercoDex (acetaminophen, dextromethorphan, oxycodone), PL3100 (naproxen, phosphatidyl choline), PSD508, R-Ketoprofen (ketoprofen), Remura (bromfenac sodium), ROX828 (ketorolac tromethamine), RP19583 (ketoprofen lysine), RQ00317076, SDX101 (R-etodolac), TDS943 (diclofenac sodium), TDT070 (ketoprofen), TPR100, TQ1011 (ketoprofen), TT063 (S-flurbiprofen), UR8880 (cimicoxib), V0498TA01A (ibuprofen), VT122 (etodolac, propranolol), XP20B (acetaminophen, dextropropoxyphene), XP21B (diclofenac potassium), XP21L (diclofenac potassium), Zoenasa (acetylcysteine, mesalamine), Acephen, Actifed Plus, Actifed-P, Acular, Acular LS, Acular PF, Acular X, Acuvail, Advil, Advil Allergy Sinus, Advil Cold and Sinus, Advil Congestion Relief, Advil PM, Advil PM Capsule, Air Salonpas, Airtal, Alcohol-Free NyQuil Cold & Flu Relief, Aleve, Aleve ABDI IBRAHIM, Aleve-D, Alka-Seltzer, Alka-Seltzer BAYER, Alka-Seltzer Extra Strength, Alka-Seltzer Lemon-Lime, Alka-Seltzer Original, Alka-Seltzer Plus, Alka-Seltzer plus Cold and Cough, Alka-Seltzer plus Cold and Cough Formula, Alka-Seltzer Plus Day and Night Cold Formula,, Alka-Seltzer Plus Day Non-Drowsy Cold Formula, Alka-Seltzer Plus Flu Formula, Alka-Seltzer Plus Night Cold Formula, Alka-Seltzer Plus Sinus Formula, Alka-Seltzer Plus Sparkling Original Cold Formula, Alka-Seltzer PM, Alka-Seltzer Wake-Up Call, Anacin, Anaprox, Anaprox MINERVA, Ansaid, Apitoxin, Apranax, Apranax abdi, Arcoxia, Arthritis Formula Bengay, Arthrotec, Asacol, Asacol HD, Asacol MEDUNA ARZNEIMITTEL, Asacol ORIFARM, Aspirin BAYER, Aspirin Complex, Aspirin Migran, AZD3582, Azulfidine, Baralgan M, BAY1019036, BAY987111, BAYl1902, BCIBUCHO01, Benadryl Allergy, Benadryl Day and Night, Benylin 4 Flu, Benylin Cold and Flu, Benylin Cold and Flu Day and Night, Benylin Cold and Sinus Day and Night, Benylin Cold and Sinus Plus, Benylin Day and Night Cold and Flu Relief, Benylin1 All-In-One, Brexin, Brexin ANGELINI, Bromday, Bufferin, Buscopan Plus, Caldolor, Calmatel, Cambia, Canasa, Capoxigem, Cataflam, Celebrex, Celebrex ORIFARM, Children's Advil Allergy Sinus, Children's Tylenol, Children's Tylenol Cough and Runny Nose, Children's Tylenol plus cold, Children's Tylenol plus Cold and Cough, Children's Tylenol plus cold and stuffy nose, Children's Tylenol plus Flu, Children's Tylenol plus cold & allergy, Children's Tylenol plus Cough & Runny Nose, Children's Tylenol plus Cough & Sore Throat, Children's Tylenol plus multi symptom cold, Clinoril, Codral Cold and Flu, Codral Day and Night Day Tablets, Codral Day and Night Night Tablets, Codral Nightime, Colazal, Combunox, Contac Cold plus Flu, Contac Cold plus Flu Non-Drowsy, Coricidin D, Coricidin HBP Cold and Flu, Coricidin HBP Day and Night Multi-Symptom Cold, Coricidin HBP Maximum Strength Flu, Coricidin HBP Nighttime Multi-Symptom Cold, Coricidin II Extra Strength Cold and Flu, CS502, CS670, Daypro, Daypro Alta, DDS06C, Demazin Cold and Flu, Demazin Cough, Cold and Flu, Demazin day/night Cold and Flu, Demazin PE Cold and Flu, Demazin PE day/night Cold and Flu, Diclofenac HPBCD, Dimetapp Day Relief, Dimetapp Multi-Symptom Cold and Flu, Dimetapp Night Relief, Dimetapp Pain and Fever Relief, Dimetapp PE Sinus Pain, Dimetapp PE Sinus Pain plus Allergy, Dipentum, Diractin, Disprin Cold ‘n’ Fever, Disprin Extra, Disprin Forte. Disprin Plus, Dristan Cold, Dristan Junior, Drixoral Plus, Duexis, Dynastat, Efferalgan, Efferalgan Plus Vitamin C, Efferalgan Vitamin C, Elixsure IB, Excedrin Back and Body, Excedrin Migraine, Excedrin PM, Excedrin Sinus Headache, Excedrin Tension Headache, Falcol, Fansamac, Feldene, FeverAll, Fiorinal, Fiorinal with Codeine, Flanax, Flector Patch, Flucam, Fortagesic, Gerbin, Giazo, Gladio, Goody's Back and Body Pain, Goody's Cool Orange, Goody's Extra Strength, Goody's PM, Greaseless Bengay, GW406381, HCT1026, He Xing Yi, Hyanalgese-D, HydrocoDex, Ibuprofen Sodium PFIZER, Ibuprofen with, Acetaminophen PFIZER, Icy Hot SANOFI AVENTIS, Impracor, Indocin, Indomethacin APP PHARMA, Indomethacin MYLAN, Infants' Tylenol, IP880, IP940, Iremod, ISV205, JNS013, Jr. Tylenol, Junifen, Junior Strength Advil, Junior Strength Motrin, Ketoprofen TDS, Lemsip Max, Lemsip Max All in One, Lemsip Max All Night, Lemsip Max Cold and Flu, Lialda, Listerine Mouth Wash, Lloyds Cream, Lodine, Lorfit P, Loxonin, LTNS001, Mersyndol, Mesalamine SALIX, Mesalamine SOFAR, Mesalazine, Mesasal GLAXO, Mesasal SANOFI, Mesulid, Metsal Heat Rub, Midol Complete, Midol Extended Relief, Midol Liquid Gels, Midol PM, Midol Teen Formula, Migranin COATED TABLETS, ML3000, Mobic, Mohrus, Motrin, Motrin Cold and Sinus Pain, Motrin PM, Movalis ASPEN, MRX7EAT, Nalfon, Nalfon PEDINOL, Naprelan, Naprosyn, Naprosyn RPG LIFE SCIENCE, Naproxen IROKO, NCX4016, NCX701, NeoProfen LUNDBECK, Nevanac, Nexcede, Niflan, Norgesic MEDICIS, Novalgin, Nuprin SCOLR, Nurofen, Nurofen Cold and Flu, Nurofen Max Strength Migraine, Nurofen Plus, Nuromol, NyQuil with Vitamin C, Ocufen, OMS1103HP, Oralease, Orudis ABBOTT JAPAN, Oruvail, Osteluc, OxycoDex, P54, Panadol, Panadol Actifast, Paradine, Paramax, Parfenac, Pedea, Pennsaid, Pentasa, Pentasa ORIFARM, Peon, Percodan, Percodan-Demi, PercoDex, Percogesic, Perfalgan, PL2200, PL3100, Ponstel, Prexige, Prolensa, PSD508, R-Ketoprofen, Rantudil, Relafen, Remura, Robaxisal, Rotec, Rowasa, ROX828, RP19583, RQ00317076, Rubor, Salofalk, Salonpas, Saridon, SDX101, Seltouch, sfRowasa, Shinbaro, Sinumax, Sinutab, Sinutab, sinus, Spalt, Sprix, Strefen, Sudafed Cold and Cough, Sudafed Head Cold and Sinus, Sudafed PE Cold plus Cough, Sudafed PE Pressure plus Pain, Sudafed PE, Severe Cold, Sudafed PE Sinus Day plus Night Relief Day Tablets, Sudafed PE Sinus Day plus Night Relief Night Tablets, Sudafed PE Sinus plus Anti-inflammatory Pain Relief, Sudafed Sinus Advance, Surgam, Synalgos-DC, Synflex, Tavist allergy/sinus/headache, TDS943, TDT070, Theraflu Cold and Sore Throat, Theraflu Daytime Severe Cold and Cough, Theraflu Daytime Warming Relief, Theraflu Warming Relief Caplets Daytime Multi-Symptom Cold, Theraflu Warming Relief Cold and Chest Congestion, Thomapyrin, Thomapyrin C, Thomapyrin Effervescent, Thomapyrin Medium, Tilcotil, Tispol, Tolectin, Toradol, TPR100, TQ1011, Trauma-Salbe, Trauma-Salbe Kwizda, Treo, Treximet, Trovex, TT063, Tylenol, Tylenol Allergy Multi-Symptom, Tylenol Back Pain, Tylenol Cold & Cough Daytime, Tylenol Cold & Cough Nighttime, Tylenol Cold and Sinus Daytime, Tylenol Cold and Sinus Nighttime, Tylenol Cold Head Congestion Severe, Tylenol Cold Multi Symptom Daytime, Tylenol Cold Multi Symptom Nighttime Liquid, Tylenol Cold Multi Symptom Severe, Tylenol Cold Non-Drowsiness Formula, Tylenol Cold Severe Congestion Daytime, Tylenol Complete Cold, Cough and Flu Night time, Tylenol Flu Nighttime, Tylenol Menstrual, Tylenol PM, Tylenol Sinus Congestion & Pain Daytime, Tylenol Sinus Congestion & Pain Nighttime, Tylenol Sinus Congestion & Pain Severe, Tylenol Sinus Severe Congestion Daytime, Tylenol Ultra Relief, Tylenol with Caffeine and Codeine phosphate, Tylenol with Codeine phosphate, Ultra Strength Bengay Cream, Ultracet, UR8880, V0498TA01A, Vicks NyQuil Cold and Flu Relief, Vicoprofen, Vimovo, Voltaren Emulgel, Voltaren GEL, Voltaren NOVARTIS CONSUMER HEALTH GMBH, Voltaren XR, VT122, Xefo, Xefo Rapid, Xefocam, Xibrom, XL3, Xodol, XP20B, XP21B, XP21L, Zipsor, and Zoenasa. In another aspect, COX-2 inhibitors can be identified through methods known in the art (See, e.g., Dannhardt, G. and Kiefer, W. Cyclooxygenase inhibitors—current status and future prospects. 2001. Eur. J. Med. Chem. 36: 109-126, which is herein incorporated by reference). In some aspects, the COX-2 inhibitor is used to treat or prevent or inhibit metastasis in a patient with advanced breast cancer. In some aspects, the COX-2 inhibitor is used in combination with a second treatment. In some aspects, the second treatment is any treatment described herein. In some aspects, the COX-2 inhibitor is used in combination with a second treatment selected from the group consisting of: Denosumab, Zometa, Carbozantinib or Cabozantinib, Antibody or peptide blocking PTHLH (parathyroid hormone like hormone) or PTHrP (parathyroid hormone related protein).
- In one embodiment, the treatment is Radium 223. In an embodiment the Radium 223 therapy is Alpharadin (aka, Xofigo) (radium-223 dichloride). Alpharadin uses alpha radiation from radium-223 decay to kill cancer cells. Radium-223 naturally self-targets to bone metastases by virtue of its properties as a calcium-mimic. Alpha radiation has a very short range of 2-10 cells (when compared to current radiation therapy which is based on beta or gamma radiation), and therefore causes less damage to surrounding healthy tissues (particularly bone marrow). With similar properties to calcium, radium-223 is drawn to places where calcium is used to build bone in the body, including the site of faster, abnormal bone growth. Radium-223, after injection, is carried in the bloodstream to sites of abnormal bone growth. The place where a cancer starts in the body is known as the primary tumor. Some of these cells may break away and be carried in the bloodstream to another part of the body. The cancer cells may then settle in that part of the body and form a new tumor. If this happens it is called a secondary cancer or a metastasis. The aim with radium-223 is to selectively target this secondary cancer. Any radium-223 not taken-up in the bones is quickly routed to the gut and excreted.
- In some embodiments, the treatment is a CDK4/6 inhibitor. In particular embodiments, the CDK4/6 inhibitor is selected from any known CDK4/6 inhibitors. In still further embodiments, the CDK4/6 inhibitor is Palbociclib (PD-0332991), Ribociclib (LEE011), or Abemaciclib (LY2835219). The use of CDK4/6 inhibitors is described in Finn et al. Breast Cancer Research 18:17 (2016).
- Alternatively a combined treatment can be carried out in which more than one agent from those mentioned above are combined to treat and/or prevent the metastasis, relapse or recurrence or said agents can be combined with other supplements, such as calcium or vitamin D or with a hormone treatment.
- In embodiments, MAF positive postmenopausal patients at high risk of DFS or bad OS outcome are treated in the adjuvant setting with any therapy to improve the outcome of the patients. These therapies include any therapy disclosed herein, including agents for avoiding or preventing bone remodeling, agents to improve disease free survival or overall survival, c-MAF inhibitory agents, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, m-Tor inhibitors, CDK4/6 inhibitors, Radium-223, a CCR5 antagonist, a Src kinase inhibitor, or a COX-2 inhibitor and combinations thereof. Patients who are not MAF positive should not be administered such agents or therapies.
- When the cancer has metastasized, systemic treatments including but not limited to chemotherapy, hormone treatment, immunotherapy, or a combination thereof are used. Additionally, radiotherapy and/or surgery can be used. The choice of treatment generally depends on the type of primary cancer, the size, the location of the metastasis, the age, the general health of the patient and the types of treatments used previously.
- The systemic treatments are those that reach the entire body:
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- Chemotherapy is the use of medicaments to destroy cancer cells. The medicaments are generally administered through oral or intravenous route. In other embodiments, the treatment is chemotherapy. In some embodiments, the chemotherapy is any chemotherapy that is known in the art. In particular embodiments, the chemotherapy is adjuvant chemotherapy. In certain embodiments, the chemotherapy is a taxane. In further embodiments, the taxane is Paclitaxel (Taxol), docetaxel (Taxotere) or Cabazitaxel. The medicaments are generally administered through oral or intravenous route. Sometimes, chemotherapy is used together with radiation treatment. Hormone therapy is based on the fact that some hormones promote cancer growth. For example, estrogen in women produced by the ovaries sometimes promotes the breast cancer growth. There are several ways for stopping the production of these hormones. A way is to remove the organs producing them: the ovaries in the case of women, the testicles in the case of the men. More frequently, medicaments to prevent these organs from producing the hormones or to prevent the hormones from acting on the cancer cells can be used. In embodiments, the treatment is hormone therapy. In certain embodiments, the hormone therapy is Tamoxifen and/or an aromatase inhibitor.
- Immunotherapy is a treatment that aids the immune system itself of the patient to combat cancer. There are several types of immunotherapy which are used to treat metastasis patients. These include but are not limited to cytokines, monoclonal antibodies and antitumor vaccines.
- The agents for avoiding or preventing bone remodelling are typically administered in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
- The term “carrier” refers to a diluent or an excipient whereby the active ingredient is administered. Such pharmaceutical carriers can be sterile liquids such as water and oil, including those of a petroleum, animal, plant or synthetic origin such peanut oil, soy oil, mineral oil, sesame oil and the like. Water or aqueous saline solutions and aqueous dextrose and glycerol solutions, particularly for injectable solutions, are preferably used as carriers. Suitable pharmaceutical carriers are described in “Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences” by E. W. Martin, 1995. Preferably, the carriers of the invention are approved by the state or federal government regulatory agency or are listed in the United States Pharmacopeia or other pharmacopeia generally recognized for use thereof in animals and more particularly in human beings.
- The carriers and auxiliary substances necessary for manufacturing the desired pharmaceutical dosage form of the pharmaceutical composition of the invention will depend, among other factors, on the pharmaceutical dosage form chosen. Said pharmaceutical dosage forms of the pharmaceutical composition will be manufactured according to the conventional methods known by the person skilled in the art. A review of the different methods for administering active ingredients, excipients to be used and processes for producing them can be found in “Tratado de Farmacia Galénica”, C. Faulí i Trillo,
Luzán 5, S. A. 1993 Edition. Examples of pharmaceutical compositions include any solid composition (tablets, pills, capsules, granules, etc.) or liquid composition (solutions, suspensions or emulsions) for oral, topical or parenteral administration. Furthermore, the pharmaceutical composition may contain, as deemed necessary, stabilizers, suspensions, preservatives, surfactants and the like. - For use in medicine, the bone remodelling agents can be found in the form of a prodrug, salt, solvate or clathrate, either isolated or in combination with additional active agents and can be formulated together with a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient. Excipients preferred for use thereof in the present invention include sugars, starches, celluloses, rubbers and proteins. In a particular embodiment, the pharmaceutical composition of the invention will be formulated in a solid pharmaceutical dosage form (for example tablets, capsules, pills, granules, suppositories, sterile crystal or amorphous solids that can be reconstituted to provide liquid forms etc.), liquid pharmaceutical dosage form (for example solutions, suspensions, emulsions, elixirs, lotions, ointments etc.) or semisolid pharmaceutical dosage form (gels, ointments, creams and the like). The pharmaceutical compositions of the invention can be administered by any route, including but not limited to the oral route, intravenous route, intramuscular route, intraarterial route, intramedularry route, intrathecal route, intraventricular router, transdermal route, subcutaneous route, intraperitoneal route, intranasal route, enteric route, topical route, sublingual route or rectal route. A review of the different ways for administering active ingredients, of the excipients to be used and of the manufacturing processes thereof can be found in Tratado de Farmacia Galénica, C. Faulí i Trillo,
Luzán 5, S. A., 1993 Edition and in Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences (A. R. Gennaro, Ed.), 20th edition, Williams & Wilkins PA, USA (2000). Examples of pharmaceutically acceptable carriers are known in the state of art and include phosphate buffered saline solutions, water, emulsions such as oil/water emulsions, different types of wetting agents, sterile solutions, etc. The compositions comprising said carriers can be formulated by conventional processes known in the state of the art. - The bone remodelling-avoiding and preventing agents or the pharmaceutical compositions containing them can be administered at a dose of less than 10 mg per kilogram of body weight, preferably less than at least about 50, 40, 30, 20, 10, 5, 2, 1, 0.5, 0.1, 0.05, 0.01, 0.005, 0.001, 0.0005, 0.0001, 0.00005 or 0.00001 mg per kg of body weight. The unit dose can be administered by injection, inhalation or topical administration. In particular embodiments, the agent is administered at its approved dose.
- The dose depends on the severity and the response of the condition to be treated and it may vary between several days and months or until the condition subsides. The optimal dosage can be determined by periodically measuring the concentrations of the agent in the body of the patient. The optimal dose can be determined from the EC50 values obtained by means of previous in vitro or in vivo assays in animal models. The unit dose can be administered once a day or less than once a day, preferably less than once every 2, 4, 8 or 30 days. Alternatively, it is possible to administer a starting dose followed by one or several maintenance doses, generally of a lesser amount than the starting dose. The maintenance regimen may involve treating the patient with a dose ranging between 0.01 μg and 1.4 mg/kg of body weight per day, for example 10, 1, 0.1, 0.01, 0.001, or 0.00001 mg per kg of body weight per day. The maintenance doses are preferably administered at the most once every 5, 10 or 30 days. The treatment must be continued for a time that will vary according to the type of disorder the patient suffers, the severity thereof and the condition of the patient. After treatment, the progress of the patient must be monitored to determine if the dose should be increased in the event that the disease does not respond to the treatment or the dose is reduced if an improvement of the disease is observed or if unwanted side effects are observed.
- In another aspect the invention relates to a kit for determining a therapy for a subject suffering from breast cancer, the kit comprising: a) means for quantifying the expression level, copy number, amplification, gain or translocation of c-MAF in a sample of said subject; b) means for comparing the quantified expression level, copy number, amplification, gain or translocation of c-MAF in said sample to a reference c-MAF expression level; and c) means for determining a therapy or excluding a therapy from consideration for said subject based on the comparison of the quantified expression level to the reference expression level.
- Means for quantifying the expression level of c-MAF in a sample of said subject have been previously described in detail including 16q23 and 16q22-24 locus amplification, gain and/or translocation. In some embodiments, the means for quantifying the c-MAF expression is any antibody, antigen binding molecule or fragment described herein. In some embodiments, the antibody is any antibody described in Int'l Appl. No. PCT/IB2015/059562, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
- In a preferred embodiment, means for quantifying expression comprise a set of probes and/or primers that specifically bind and/or amplify the c-MAF gene.
- All the particular embodiments of the methods of the present invention are applicable to the kits of the invention and to their uses.
- Method for Classifying a Subject Suffering from Breast Cancer.
- In another aspect, the invention relates to a method for classifying a subject suffering from breast cancer into a cohort, comprising: a) determining the expression level, copy number, amplification, gain or translocation of c-MAF in a sample of said subject; b) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification, gain or
translocation 1 of c-MAF in said sample to a predetermined reference level of c-MAF expression; and c) classifying said subject into a cohort based on said expression level, copy number, amplification, gain or translocation of c-MAF in the sample. - In some embodiments, the c-MAF gene expression level is used to stratify patients into groups for treatment based on their c-MAF expression level. In embodiments, patients with a high c-MAF expression level receive a different treatment than patients with a low c-MAF expression level. In embodiments, the patients are futher stratified based on their menopausal status. In embodiments, the patients are stratified based on whether they are post-menopausal or non-post-menopausal. In certain embodiments, the subjects are administered different treatments based on their c-MAF expression levels and/or their post-menopausal or non-post-menopausal status. In some embodiments, the stratified patients are administered an agent that avoids or prevents bone remodelling. In embodiments, the agent that avoids or prevents bone remodeling is an agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation. In further embodiments, the agent that avoids or prevents bone degradation is zoledronic acid. In other embodiments, the c-MAF gene expression level is used to select patients for treatment. In some embodiments, the patients are stratified into groups for clinical trials.
- Means for quantifying the expression level of c-MAF in a sample of said subject have been previously described in detail including 16q23 and 16922-24 locus amplification, gain and/or translocation.
- In another preferred embodiment said cohort is for conducting a clinical trial.
- In a preferred embodiment, the sample is a tumor tissue sample.
- The following examples illustrate the invention and do not limit the scope thereof.
- The IHC and FISH assays used to test c-MAF in the AZURE samples were analytically validated. An overview of the assay validation parameters can be seen in
FIG. 1 . - The MAF FISH assay was produced by Kreatech for Inbiomotion based on KREATECH proprietary FISH technology. The probe set contains two probes: a MAF 16q23 probe plus a D16Z3 probe as control of
chromosome 16 centromeric region. The assay was validated using a 16q23/D16Z3 probe (Inbiomotion) and Poseidon Tissue Digestion Kit from Kreatech. The scoring criteria were defined in a fact sheet and as follows: two FISH evaluable results per patient, and the highest value was selected. The scoring algorithm was as follows: 20 cells counted for target and centromere amplification, if the gene count is >2 and ≤3, then 50 cells were counted. - The MAF IHC assay was based on a recombinant monoclonal antibody (described in Int'l Appl. No. PCT/IB2015/059562, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety). The antibody was selected based on IHC. The assay was validated using MAF RecMab (Inbiomotion) with DAKO AS LINK platform and protocol on control specimens provided by Inbiomotion. The scoring criterion was defined upfront in a fact sheet, and there was one single IHC Hscore per patient. The scoring algorithm was the H-score.
- An overview of the AZURE clinical trial (Coleman et al N Eng J Med 2011; 365: 1396-1405 and AZURE Current Controlled Trials number, ISRCTN79831382 and ClinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT00072020) study design, whose patients were used to validate MAF, is provided in
FIG. 2 . MAF was validated in a retrospective analysis of the AZURE trial using patient tumor sample prospectively collected under regulatory compliant conditions. Out of the 3360 patients recruited, 1,769 donated tumor tissue (52.4%). There were 13 TMAs (tissue micro array) (150 patient samples each) (1,769 patients). There were 4 replicas of each TMA using different tissue cores (6,326 (4×patient)). One TMA had only 1 replica and two TMAs had three replicas. Based on the H&E analysis (hematoxilyin and eosin) (FIG. 3 ) (6,326): 3978 cores were evaluable (63%) and 2348 were nonevaluable. - For the FISH assay, there were 2,067 FISH evaluable cores (56%). There were 865 patients (49%) with two FISH evaluable cores (26% of the AZURE patients) and 1,202 patients had a single FISH score (68%). 567 patients were nonevaluable by FISH in any of the 4 replicas (32%).
- For the IHC assay, a pathologist evaluation and a VisoPharm computer assisted evaluation were performed. For the pathologist evaluation, 2,232 cores were evaluated (59% evaluable for HScore). There were 1390 patients with an IHC HScore (74%), representing 39% of the total AZURE patients. There were 460 patients that were non-evaluable by IHC in any of the four replicas. In the VisioPharm computer assisted IHC staining evaluation, 1299 IHC patients were evaluated out of 1309 scored by pathologists for HScore and mean staining per nuclei. The MAF positivity rate can be seen in
FIGS. 4A and 4B . - The cut-off optimized FISH data can be seen in
FIG. 5 and were calculated as described in Vipery et al JCO 2014 DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2013.53.3604. - With regard to molecular variables, for FISH analysis: MAF copy number: numerical and categorical (+/−cut-off>=2.5) variable; % of nucleic MAF amplified (MAF CN>2):numberical+categorical (cut-off TBD). For the IHC analysis: IHC H-Score: numerical+categorical (cut-off>=200), IHC OD: numerical+categorical (cut-off tBD). The following clinical variables were analyzed: disease-free survival (DFS), invasive disease-free survival (IDFS), overall survival (OS), first recurrence in bone, bone recurrence at any time, time to first DFS event in bone, time to first DFS event not in bone, response to zoledronic acid treatment.
- In analyzing the MAF FISH prognostic value, the patients from the control and treatment arms were pooled for the initial analysis. Optimized cut-offs for each variable to be analyzed were used when indicated. Death as a competing event was used in time to bone metastasis, anytime. The following clinical variables were analyzed: time to bone metastasis (anytime), time to bone metastasis (as first event), IDFS (including ipsilateral invasive breast tumor recurrence, regional invasive breast cancer recurrence, metastatic disease-breast cancer, death attributable to any cause, including breast cancer, contralateral invasive breast cancer, second primary non-breast invasive cancer), and overall survival.
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FIG. 6 shows that the risk for of bone metastasis was 40% higher in MAF FISH positive patients (>=2.3)(p=0.007) when all patients are analyzed (death as a competing event is used in time to bone metastasis (anytime)).FIG. 7 shows that there was a 42% higher risk for bone as the first metastasis site in MAF FISH positive patients (>=2.3) (p=0.02, multivariate analysis). As seen inFIG. 8 , the risk for IDFS was 38% higher in MAF FISH positive patients (>=2.2) (p=0.0002, multivariate analysis) (there is a very early separation by two years then the curves parallel).FIG. 9 shows that overall survival was 33% lower in MAF FISH positive patients (>=2.2) (p=0.02, multivariate analysis) (there is an early separation by three years for the overall survival). - As seen in
FIG. 10 , there was a shorter time to bone as the first recurrence in MAF FISH positive patients (>=2.3) of the control arm, with a significant difference in the multivariate analysis (HR=0.47, p=0.013). - As seen in
FIG. 11 , there was a trend to a shorter time to recurrence in untreated MAF positive patients (>=2.2) (HR=0.72, p=0.08, multivariate analysis) compared with untreated MAF not positive patients.FIG. 12 shows the time to IDFS (excluding bone recurrence) by FISH in AZURE control patients only. An optimized cutoff of 2.2 was used. - In summary, the predefined cut off to stratify patients according to their MAF FISH level was very close to the optimized computer based defined cutoffs. The threshold effect allows for the delineation of clear groups for appropriate (related) treatment (or avoidance of treatment). Based on the prognosis of the MAF FISH positive patients of the control arm, we saw a shorter time to bone as the first metastasis (HR=0.53, multivariate p=0.03) and a trend to a shorter time to recurrence (invasive disease) (HR=0.72, p=0.08).
- The control and zoledronic acid treatment arms from the AZURE study described in Example 1 were evaluated to determine the effect of zoledronic acid treatment on MAF-stratified patients.
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FIGS. 13A-13B (Coleman et al Lancet Oncol 2014; 15: 997-1006,FIG. 3 ) shows the time to bone metastasis in patients in the control arm and in the zoledronic acid treatment arm of the Azure trial.FIG. 14 shows an evaluation of the time to bone metastasis as a first event. As can be seen inFIG. 14 , there was a shorter time to bone as first recurrence in MAF FISH positive (>=2.3) patients of the control arm, with a significant difference in the multivariate analysis (HR=0.47, p=0.013, multivariate analysis). Zoledronic acid treatment reduced the differences in incidence of bone as first site of recurrence between MAF positive and non-positive patients, and there was no significant difference in the risk of bone metastasis at any time in MAF positive compared to MAF non-positive patients treated with zoledronic acid. -
FIGS. 15A-15B (Coleman et al Lancet Oncol 2014; 15: 997-1006,FIG. 2 ) shows an analysis of disease (DFS) and invasive disease (IDFS) free survival between the control arm and the zoledronic acid treated patients in the AZURE trial. -
FIG. 16 shows the time to distant recurrence between the control arm and the zoledronic acid treated patients. There was a trend to a shorter time to distant recurrence in untreated MAF positive patients (>=2.2) (HR=0.72, p=0.08, multivariate analysis). There was a significantly shorter time to recurrence (invasive disease) in MAF positive patients in the zoledronic acid treatment arm (HR=0.52, p<0.001, multivariate analysis). Treatment with zoledronic acid worsened IDFS compared to untreated MAF positive patients. -
FIG. 17 shows the time to a bone metastatic event (anytime) according to treatment. Death as a competing event is used in time to bone metastasis (anytime). There was a non-significant increased risk of bone metastasis in MAF FISH positive patients (>=2.3) of the control arm (HR=0.72, p=0.18). Zoledronic acid treatment significantly reduced the risk of bone metastasis at any time in MAF FISH not positive patients (<2.3) (HR=0.52, p=0.01) compared to MAF FISH positive patients. -
FIG. 18 shows the time to a bone metastatic event (anytime) according to MAF copy number (according to pre-specified MAF cut off of 2.5). Death as a competing event is used in time to bone metastasis (anytime). Zoledronic acid treatment significantly reduced the risk of bone metastasis in MAF FISH not positive patients (HR=0.65, p=0.03). Zoledronic acid treatment showed a trend to an increased risk of bone metastasis in MAF positive patients. The difference was non-significant (HR=1.54, p=0.22). -
FIGS. 19A-19B shows the IDFS by menopausal status of the AZURE trial when patients are not stratified according to MAF (Coleman et al Lancet Oncol 2014; 15: 997-1006,FIG. 5 ). -
FIG. 20 shows the time to a bone metastatic event (anytime) using death as a competiting event according to MAF copy number (data according to a pre-specified cut off of 2.5) in postmenopausal patients. The treatment outcome in MAF positive postmenopausal patients (>2.5) showed a trend to reduce the number of bone metastasis events (HR=0.46, p=0.26, with a limited number of events). The treatment outcome in MAF non-positive postmenopausal patients treated with zoledronic acid was less effective than in MAF positive postmenopausal patients (HR=0.63 vs HR=0.46, with a limited number of events) suggesting a clear benefit of Zoledronic treatment to prevent bone metastasis in the MAF positive postmenopausal patients. -
FIG. 21 shows the time to a bone metastatic event (anytime) according to MAF copy number (data according to a pre-specified cut off of 2.5) in non-post menopausal patients. There was a significantly worse zoledronic acid treatment outcome in MAF positive non-post-menopausal patients causing an increase in bone metastatic events (HR=2.44, p=0.045). There was a trend to a better outcome with zoledronic acid treatment in MAF non-positive non-post-menopausal patients (HR=0.66, p=0.08). -
FIG. 22 shows the IDFS of the zoledronic acid treatment arm and the control arm, excluding bone metastasis of post-menopausal women. As seen inFIG. 22 , the treatment of post-menopausal patients with zoledronic acid significantly improved the IDFS (excluding bone) of MAF FISH positive patients (>=2.2) reducing the number of invasive disease events, and there was no difference in the IDFS (excluding bone) of MAF non-positive patients. -
FIG. 23 shows the IDFS of the zoledronic acid treatment arm and the control arm, excluding bone metastasis of non-post-menopausal women. As seen inFIG. 23 , the treatment of non-post-menopausal women with zoledronic acid significantly worsens the IDFS (excluding bone) of MAF FISH positive patients (>=2.2), and no difference was seen in the IDFS (excluding bone) of the MAF FISH non-positive patients. -
FIG. 24 shows the overall survival (OS) by treatment arm. Treatment of MAF FISH positive patients with zoledronic acid significantly impacted the OS. -
FIG. 25 shows the prognosis of disease free survival (DFS) in the AZURE control arm. As can be seen inFIG. 25 , there is a significantly lower disease free survival in untreated MAF positive post-menopausal patients. With regard to disease free survival: the significance of FISH status and menopausal status interaction covariate in multivariate analysis (in control patients); Chi2=6.23, p-value=0.013.FIG. 26 shows the prognosis of overall survival in AZURE control arm patients. There is a trend to a shorter OS in untreated MAF positive post-menopausal patients. With regard to OS: the significance of FISH status and menopausal status interaction covariate in multivariate analysis (in control patients); Chi2=3.62, p-value=0.057.FIG. 27 shows the impact of zoledronic acid treatment on DFS according to the MAF FISH value. As can be seen inFIG. 27 , zoledronic acid treatment produces a differential DFS outcome between MAF FISH positive and negative patients, and these differences take place in post and non-post menopausal women. -
FIG. 28 shows the impact of zoledronic acid treatment on DFS according to the MAF FISH value on postmenopausal patients. As can be seen inFIG. 28 , zoledronic acid treatment produces a better DFS outcome in MAF negative post menopausal patients (HR=0.56, (95% CI., 0.33-0.95).FIG. 29 shows the impact of zoledronic acid treatment on the DFS of non-post-menopoausal women. As can be seen inFIG. 29 , zoledronic acid treatment produces the worst DFS outcome in MAF positive non-post-menopausal patients.FIG. 30 shows the impact of zoledronic acid treatment on overall survival according to the MAF FISH value. As can be seen inFIG. 30 , zoledronic acid treatment produces a significantly shorter overall survival in MAF positive patients. These differences take place in post and non-post menopausal women.FIG. 31 shows the impact of zoledronic acid treatment on overall survival according to MAF FISH levels in post menopausal patients. As can be seen inFIG. 31 , zoledronic acid treatment shows a trend to a better overall survival outcome in MAF negative post menopausal patients. HR=0.56, (95% CI., 0.31-1.01), but a larger effect in zoledronic FISH positive patients.FIG. 32 shows the impact of zoledronic acid treatment on the overall survival of non-postmenopausal women according to MAF FISH value. As can be seen inFIG. 32 , zoledronic acid treatment produces the worst overall survival outcome in MAF positive non-post menopausal patients. - A summary of the predictive value of the gene of interest (GOI) MAF on the risk of the patients for DFS and OS broken according to menopausal status is seen in Table 1.
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TABLE 1 Hazard ratio for predictive power of MAF based on menopausal status Lower Upper Hazard limit of limit of ratio 95 % CI 95% CI (HR) for HR for HR GOI status: negative v. positive 3.134 0.913 10.760 for pre-menopausal patients GOI status: negative v. positive 0.667 0.202 2.200 for less than or equal to 5 years since menopause patients GOI status: negative v. positive 0.552 0.280 1.089 for more than 5 years since menopause patients GO status: negative v. positive 0.656 0.121 3.559 for menstrual status unknown patients - As can be seen, MAF is predictive in postmenopausal, unknown and perimenopausl patients at risk of a shorter DFS or worst OS. However in premenopausal women, MAF positive patients are those at less risk and are more likely to have a longer DFS and better OS.
- In summary, there is a significant increased risk of bone metastasis as first site of recurrence in MAF FISH positive v. non positive patients of the control arm. (HR=0.47, p=0.013 with a cutoff=2.3) and this difference is reduced upon treatment with Zoledronic acid. In addition, Zoledronic acid treatment significantly reduced the risk of bone metastasis at any time on MAF FISH non positive patients (HR=0.65, p=0.03, cutoff=2.5). Zoledronic acid treatment shows an increased risk of bone metastasis at any time on MAF positive patients. The difference is non-significant (HR=1.54, p=0.22, cutoff=2.5). This effect is driven by menopausal status and shows the largest effect in the non-postmenopausal group. Zoledronic improves the outcome of MAF FISH positive postmenopausal patients significantly. However, Zoledronic acid worsens the outcome of MAF FISH positive non-postmenopausal patients. The effect is dependent on an increase in invasive disease (reduced IDFS) upon treatment with Zoledronic acid (suggesting that prevention of metastasis to the bone may facilitate metastasis elsewhere in non postmenopausal patients and eventually lead to metastasis to the bone as a secondary event).
- MAF FISH positive patients who are not treated with zoledronic acid have a higher risk of bone metastasis and Invasive Disease (reduced IDFS including and excluding bone events). In patients treated with zoledronic acid, MAF positive patients have a worse outcome compared to untreated patients in terms of bone metastasis at any time, IDFS (including an excluding bone events) and overall survival. MAF negative patients treated with zoledronic acid have a better outcome compared to untreated patients with regard to bone metastasis at any time risk. With regard to post-menopausal women, there is a better outcome with regard to IDFS (excluding bone) in MAF positive patients treated with zoledronic acid. In non-postmenopausal women there is a worse outcome with regard to IDFS (excluding bone) in MAF positive patients treated with zoledronic acid.
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1-46. (canceled)
47. An in vitro method for predicting IDFS excluding bone recurrence of a patient with breast cancer which comprises determining the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a tumor sample of said subject relative to a reference wherein an increase of the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to said reference is indicative of poor IDFS excluding bone recurrence.
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79. A method for the treatment of a subject having breast cancer which comprises:
i) quantifying the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a tumor sample of said subject and
ii) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain obtained in i) with a reference value,
wherein said subject has a not increased expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to said reference value, and administering to said subject a therapy comprising an estrogen receptor modulator.
80. The method of claim 79 , wherein the subject is non-postmenopausal or postmenopausal.
81. The method of claim 79 , wherein the subject is further administered a therapy aiming to prevent and/or treat bone remodeling, improve disease free survival or overall survival.
82. The method according to claim 79 , wherein the estrogen receptor modulator inhibits the binding of estrogen to the estrogen receptor.
83. The method according to claim 79 , wherein the estrogen receptor modulator is selected from the group consisting of progestogen, estradiol, droloxifene, raloxifiene, lasofoxifene, TSE-424, tamoxifen, idoxifene, LY353381, LY117081, toremifene, fulvestrant, 4-[7-(2,2-dimethyl-l-oxopropoxy-4-methyl-2-[4-[2-(1-piperidinyl)ethoxy]phenyl]-2H-1-benzopyran-3-yl]-phenyl-2,2-dimethylpropanoate, and SH646.
84. The method of claim 79 , wherein the breast cancer is selected from the group consisting of: ER+ breast cancer, ER− breast cancer, triple negative breast cancer, of the basal-like subtype, and HER2+ breast cancer.
85. A method for the treatment of bone metastasis in a subject having breast cancer comprising determining that said subject has a non increased c-MAF expression level, amplification, copy number or gain in a tumor sample with respect to a control sample and administering to said subject an agent capable of preventing or inhibiting bone remodeling or improving disease free survival or overall survival, wherein the agent capable of preventing or inhibiting bone remodeling or improving disease free survival or overall survival is an estrogen receptor modulator.
86. The method of claim 85 , wherein the subject is postmenopausal.
87. The method of claim 85 , wherein the breast cancer is selected from the group consisting of: ER+ breast cancer, ER− breast cancer, triple negative breast cancer, of the basal-like subtype, and HER2+ breast cancer.
88. The method of claim 85 , wherein the estrogen receptor modulator inhibits the binding of estrogen to the estrogen receptor.
89. The method of claim 85 , wherein the estrogen receptor modulator is selected from the group consisting of progestogen, estradiol, droloxifene, raloxifiene, lasofoxifene, TSE-424, tamoxifen, idoxifene, LY353381, LY117081, toremifene, fulvestrant, 4-[7-(2,2-dimethyl-1-oxopropoxy-4-methyl-2-[4-[2-(1-piperidinyl)ethoxy]phenyl]-2H-1-benzopyran-3-yl]-phenyl-2,2-dimethylpropanoate and SH646.
90. A method for the treatment of a subject having breast cancer comprising determining that said subject has a non increased c-MAF expression level, amplification, copy number, or gain in a tumor sample with respect to a control sample, and administering to said subject an agent, and wherein the agent is an estrogen receptor modulator.
91. The method of claim 90 , wherein the subject is non-postmenopausal, premenopausal or postmenopausal.
92. The method of claim 90 , wherein the breast cancer is selected from the group consisting of: ER+ breast cancer, ER− breast cancer, triple negative breast cancer, of the basal-like subtype, and HER2+ breast cancer.
93. The method of claim 90 , wherein the estrogen receptor modulator inhibits the binding of estrogen to the estrogen receptor.
94. The method according to claim 90 , wherein the estrogen receptor modulator is selected from the group consisting of progestogen, estradiol, droloxifene, raloxifiene, lasofoxifene, TSE-424, tamoxifen, idoxifene, LY353381, LY117081, toremifene, fulvestrant, 4-[7-(2,2-dimethyl-1-oxopropoxy-4-methyl-2-[4-[2-(1-piperidinyl)ethoxy]phenyl]-2H-1-benzopyran-3-yl]-phenyl-2,2-dimethylpropanoate and SH646.
95. A method for the identification of a subject having breast cancer who will benefit from treatment with an agent comprising:
i) quantifying the c-MAF gene expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain in a tumor sample of said subject and
ii) comparing the expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain obtained in i) with a reference value,
wherein said subject has an increased expression level, copy number, amplification, or gain with respect to said reference value, and administering to said subject an agent, wherein the agent is an estrogen receptor modulator.
96. The method of claim 95 , wherein the breast cancer is selected from the group consisting of: ER+ breast cancer, ER− breast cancer, triple negative breast cancer, of the basal-like subtype, and HER2+ breast cancer.
97. The method of claim 95 , wherein the estrogen receptor modulator inhibits the binding of estrogen to the estrogen receptor.
98. The method according to claim 95 , wherein the estrogen receptor modulator is selected from the group consisting of progestogen, estradiol, droloxifene, raloxifiene, lasofoxifene, TSE-424, tamoxifen, idoxifene, LY353381, LY117081, toremifene, fulvestrant, 4-[7-(2,2-dimethyl-1-oxopropoxy-4-methyl-2-[4-[2-(1-piperidinyl)ethoxy]phenyl]-2H-1-benzopyran-3-yl]-phenyl-2,2-dimethylpropanoate and SH646.
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