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Pretherapy Ferumoxytol-enhanced MRI to Predict Response to Liposomal Irinotecan in Metastatic Breast Cancer
Harshan Ravi1, Andres M Arias-Lorza1, James R Costello1
1From the Departments of Cancer Physiology (H.R., A.M.A.L., N.R.), Radiology (J.R.C., D.K.J.), and Breast Oncology (H.S.H.), Moffitt Cancer Center, 12902 Magnolia Dr, Tampa, FL 33612; Ipsen Bioscience, Cambridge, Mass (S.G.K.); HonorHealth Research Institute, Scottsdale, Ariz (J.C.S.); Imaging Endpoints Core Laboratory, Scottsdale, Ariz (R.L.K.); and Department of Oncologic Sciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla (N.R.).
Abstract:
Purpose To investigate ferumoxytol (FMX)-enhanced MRI as a pretreatment predictor of response to liposomal irinotecan (nal-IRI) for thoracoabdominal and brain metastases in women with metastatic breast cancer (mBC). Materials and Methods In this phase 1 expansion trial (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier, NCT01770353; 27 participants), 49 thoracoabdominal (19 participants; mean age, 48 years ± 11 [SD]) and 19 brain (seven participants; mean age, 54 years ± 8) metastases were analyzed on MR images acquired before, 1-4 hours after, and 16-24 hours after FMX administration. In thoracoabdominal metastases, tumor transverse relaxation rate (R*2) was normalized to the mean R*2 in the spleen (rR*2), and the tumor histogram metric rR*2,N, representing the average of rR*2 in voxels above the nth percentile, was computed. In brain metastases, a novel compartmentation index was derived by applying the MRI signal equation to phantom-calibrated coregistered FMX-enhanced MRI brain scans acquired before, 1-4 hours after, and 16-24 hours after FMX administration. The fraction of voxels with an FMX compartmentation index greater than 1 was computed over the whole tumor (FCIGT1) and from voxels above the 90th percentile R*2 (FCIGT1 R*2,90). Results rR*2,90 computed from pretherapy MRI performed 16-24 hours after FMX administration, without reference to calibration phantoms, predicted response to nal-IRI in thoracoabdominal metastases (accuracy, 74%). rR*2,90 performance was robust to the inclusion of some peritumoral tissue within the tumor region of interest. FCIGT1 R*2,90 provided 79% accuracy on cross-validation in prediction of response in brain metastases. Conclusion This first in-human study focused on mBC suggests that FMX-enhanced MRI biologic markers can be useful for pretherapy prediction of response to nal-IRI in patients with mBC. Keywords: MRI Contrast Agent, MRI, Breast, Head/Neck, Tumor Response, Experimental Investigations, Brain/Brain Stem Clinical trial registration no. NCT01770353 Supplemental material is available for this article. © RSNA, 2023 See also commentary by Daldrup-Link in this issue.
