Urothelial Bladder Carcinomas with High Tumor Mutation Burden Have a Better Prognosis and Targetable Molecular Defects beyond Immunotherapies.

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In recent years, immunotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors has improved outcomes in several cancers, including bladder carcinomas. Despite positive overall results, many bladder cancer patients do not respond to immunotherapies. Validated predictive biomarkers of response would advance the selection of patients for these treatments. Tumor mutation burden (TMB) has been suggested as an immunotherapy biomarker and thus delineation of attributes of tumors with a high TMB is clinically relevant. Methods: Publicly available genomic and clinical data from the urothelial bladder carcinoma cohort of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project are used to analyze characteristics and molecular alterations of the subset of cancers with an increased tumor mutation number compared with those with lower number of mutations. The cut-off for the high mutation burden in the analysis was set at 10 mutations per Megabase (MB). Results: In addition to their sensitivity to immune checkpoint inhibitors, urothelial carcinomas with high TMB possess several molecular defects that could be exploited for combinatorial treatments. Compared with bladder carcinomas with low TMB, carcinomas with high TMB display higher prevalence of mutations in tumor suppressor TP53, PIK3CA, in FAT4 cadherin and in genes encoding for several epigenetic modifier enzymes. The frequency of mutations in mismatch repair and DNA damage response genes is higher in cancers with high TMB. The group of urothelial carcinomas with high TMB has a better prognosis than the group with low TMB. This improved Overall Survival (OS) stems from improved survival of stage III cancers with high TMB compared with stage III cancers with low TMB, while stage II and stage IV cancers have similar OS, independently of their TMB. 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