Abstract
Introduction
Standards for chemotherapy against choroid plexus tumors (CPT) have not yet been established.
Methods
CPT-SIOP-2000 (NCT00500890) was an international registry for all CPT nesting a chemotherapy randomization for high-risk CPT with Carboplatin/Etoposide/Vincristine (CarbEV) versus Cyclophosphamide/Etoposide/Vincristine (CycEV). Patients older than three years were recommended to receive irradiation: focal fields for non-metastatic CPC, incompletely resected atypical choroid plexus papilloma (APP) or metastatic choroid plexus papilloma (CPP); craniospinal fields for metastatic CPC/APP and non-responsive CPC. High risk was defined as choroid plexus carcinoma (CPC), incompletely resected APP, and all metastatic CPT. From 2000 until 2010, 158 CPT patients from 23 countries were enrolled.
Results
For randomized CPC, the 5/10 year progression free survival (PFS) of patients on CarbEV (n = 20) were 62%/47%, respectively, compared to 27%/18%, on CycEV (n = 15), (intention-to-treat, HR 2.6, p = 0.032). Within the registry, histological grading was the most influential prognostic factor: for CPP (n = 55) the 5/10 year overall survival (OS) and the event free survival (EFS) probabilities were 100%/97% and 92%/92%, respectively; for APP (n = 49) 96%/96% and 76%/76%, respectively; and for CPC (n = 54) 65%/51% and 41%/39%, respectively. Without irradiation, 12 out of 33 patients with CPC younger than three years were alive for a median of 8.52 years. Extent of surgery and metastases were not independent prognosticators.
Conclusions
Chemotherapy for Choroid Plexus Carcinoma is feasible and effective. CarbEV is superior to CycEV. A subset of CPC can be cured without irradiation.
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Introduction
Choroid plexus tumors (CPT) are rare brain tumors of the choroid plexus epithelium. The age-standardized incidence rate is 1.0 per million, with an incidence peak in the first year of life at 6.1 per million [1]. The WHO classification differentiates between low-grade choroid plexus papilloma (CPPCNS WHO grade 1), intermediate-grade atypical choroid plexus papilloma, characterized by increased mitotic activity (APPCNS WHO grade 2), and high-grade choroid plexus carcinoma, which displays frank signs of malignancy (CPCCNS WHO grade 3) [2]. DNA methylation profiling further segregates three distinct subclass: supratentorial pediatric low-risk CPT (CPP/APP) = “pediatric A”, infratentorial adult low-risk CPT (CPP/APP) = “adult”, and supratentorial pediatric high-risk CPT (all CPC, very few APP/CPP) = “pediatric B” [3,4,5,6]. CPC is the typical CPT seen in Li-Fraumeni Syndrome [7].
Treatment recommendations for CPT include multidisciplinary approaches, with maximal surgical resection for all CPT [8,9,10,11,12,13,14], followed by chemotherapy [11, 15,16,17,18,19,20,21] and radiotherapy [22,23,24] for high-risk CPT. The prognosis of CPC remains dismal when tumor resection is the only treatment modality, and the role, sequence, and intensity of primary chemotherapy remain debatable [13, 19, 21].
We here report the registry results, and the final results of the first global trial for CPT, which was designed in the late 1990s by an international multidisciplinary pediatric neurooncology collaboration following a metaanalysis [22, 25].
The aims were (a) to initiate a registry for the prospective collection of CPT data, (b) to design a multidisciplinary treatment algorithm supporting clinical care by using information from single cases and small series [22, 23, 26], and (c) to perform a randomized interventional study comparing six cycles of carboplatin/etoposide/vincristine (CarbEV) versus cyclophosphamide/ etoposide/vincristine (CycEV).
Methods and materials
CPT-SIOP-2000 (NCT00500890) was approved by the SIOP scientific committee, the leading institution ethics committee (Regensburg, Germany), local institutional ethics committees, and the German Cancer Society in 2000. Written informed consent was obtained from patients, parents, or appropriate legal guardians in accordance with national laws.
Registry
Patients with histologically-confirmed newly-diagnosed CPT were eligible for registration, which included all ages, performance status, tumor grade and metastatic status (eligibility criteria listed in Table 1a). Central histology and radiology reviews, as well as Li–Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) testing, were recommended, but not mandatory. Figure 1 depicts the algorithm of registry surveillance for low-risk CPT (non-metastatic CPP and completely resected non-metastatic APP). Data from patients receiving non-protocol therapy were also collected.
Interventional study
Patients with either CPC, metastatic disease, or incompletely resected APP were eligible for randomized chemotherapy intervention (Fig. 1; eligibility criteria listed in Table 1b). Open label randomization was provided by the study center. Six cycles of chemotherapy were repeated every 28 days and consisted of etoposide 100 mg/msq on days 1–5, with vincristine 1.5 mg/msq on day 1. The third drug was randomized to either carboplatin 350 mg/msq on days 1 and 2 (Supplemental Fig. 1a: CarbEV) or cyclophosphamide 1 g/msq on days 1 and 2 (Supplemental Fig. 1b: CycEV). Radiotherapy was proposed after two cycles of chemotherapy and restricted to patients that were at least 3 years of age: local fields with 54 Gy administered in 30 fractions (1.8 Gy/fraction) were prescribed for non-metastatic CPC, APP with residual tumor and metastatic CPP. Craniospinal fields of 35.2 Gy in 22 fractions (1.6 Gy/fraction) with a local boost of up to a total of 54 Gy for primary tumor and 49.6 Gy for metastases (both with 1.8 Gy/fraction), were prescribed for patients with metastatic CPC and APP (Supplemental Table 1a, b).
Feasibility of the study was tested in a pilot phase completed in 2005. The primary objective of the trial was Overall Survival (OS) time (Table 1c). Performance status at diagnosis was graded on a 1–5 level scale (Table 1d). Toxicity was documented in a study-specific grading system (Supplemental Table 2). Statistical analyses were performed in SPSS version 18 (IBM), and GraphPad Prism version 7.00 (GraphPad Software, La Jolla, California, USA, www.graphpad.com). Survival curves were estimated by the Kaplan–Meier method and compared between histologies. Overall survival (OS) was calculated from time of histological diagnosis until death. Event free survival (EFS) was calculated from time of histological diagnosis until tumor progression, second malignancy, death, or date last seen (censored). Progression free survival (PFS) was calculated from time of histological diagnosis to disease progression, death, or date last seen (censored).
Results
Registry (Consort Diagram 1, Fig. 2a)
173 patients were screened from 85 institutions across 23 countries from 05-Jan-2000 until 22-Jan-2010. The database was locked for this analysis in 2020. Central review excluded 15 tumors from the analysis as non-CPT (4 ATRT, 2 low-grade glioma, 1 ependymoma, 2 medulloepithelioma, 2 pineal non-CPT, 1 cribriform neuroepithelial tumor, 3 undeterminable). CPT were upgraded in 12 and downgraded in 17 cases. In 3 cases a local non-CPT diagnosis was revised to CPT. After this review, 158 patients (77 females, 81 males) were included for further analyses, median follow-up for these were 7.4 (0.2–17) years; pathology central review was available in 138 patients (further details: Fig. 2a, b).
The median age at diagnosis for all patients was 1.7 years (0.01–45.6); that for patients with CPP (n = 55) was 2.7 years, for APP (n = 49) 0.7 years, and for CPC (n = 54) 2.1 years. Demographical and clinico-pathological variables are summarized in Table 2. Performance status on the 5-level scale was documented in 46 patients: 20% were in level 1, 56% in level 2, 22% in level 3, and 2% in level 4 or 5. Values did not correlate with histology or outcome.
LFS testing was performed for only 9 patients, which was prompted by positive family history in three, and detected pathogenic TP53 mutations in 1 APP (c.743G>A; p.R248Q) and 6 CPC (c.818G>A, p.R273H; codon 170 4 bp del leading to stop in codon 173; c.847C>T, p.R283C; c.356C>G, pA119G; c.742C>T, p.R248W; mutation not communicated in one). LFS was suspected, but not tested, in one patient with CPC who developed subsequent glioblastoma and malignant hemithorax tumor, and in another patient with APP who had a previous periorbital rhabdomyosarcoma.
Sotos syndrome was diagnosed in one patient with APP. Other co-morbidities were univentricular heart in 1 CPC patient, ureteral duplication in 1 CPP patient, ectopic kidney in 1 APP patient, and demyelinating disease in 1 APP patient.
Available tumor volumes did not differ amongst the CPT subgroups in this cohort (median for all = 53 ml). 80% of all CPT were located in the lateral ventricles (94% of CPC, 84% of APP, 64% of CPP); location in the fourth ventricle was more common in older patients (15/19 CPT > 3 years versus 4/19 CPT ≤ 3 years), and less frequent for high-grade tumors (4% of CPC, 6% of APP, 26% of CPC). Only 1 CPC arose in the third ventricle (Table 2).
At initial staging, 134 patients had localized disease, and 19 had metastatic disease (3 CPP, 5 APP, 11 CPC). Of the 19 patients with metastatic disease, 2 were identified on the basis of positive CSF cytology only, 1 patient had intracranial metastases, 8 patients had spinal metastases, and 6 patients had generalized leptomeningeal disease. For 2 patients with metastatic disease the location was not documented. Staging data were not available in 5 patients. Non-metastatic tumors were more commonly completely resected.
Histological grade was the single most prominent prognostic variable (Fig. 3a,b). The 1, 5, and 10 year OS were as follows: CPP (n = 55): 100%, 100%, 97%; APP (n = 49): 100%, 96%, 96%; CPC (n = 54) 83%, 65%, 51%. The 1, 5, 10 year EFS were: CPP: 100%, 92%, 92%; APP: 90%, 76%, 76%; and CPC: 68%, 41%, 39%. Two patients with CPP experienced malignant progression to CPC and died of progressive disease 5.6 and 13.1 years after primary diagnosis, respectively. One instance of malignant progression occurred in an APP patient. APP patients younger than 2 years of age at diagnosis had significantly higher higher PFS and OS compared to older APP patients (Fig. 3c, d).
For 86 CPT (30 CPP, 25 APP, 31 CPC) a nuclear p53 labeling index was determined and subsequently correlated with grade: 2/30 CPP were positive (index 10%), 6/25 APP were positive (index ≤ 30%), and 19/31 CPC were positive (index 10–90%). All CPT with a p53 labeling index over 35% were CPC. Nuclear p53 labeling was assessed in 4 of 7 patients with LFS: the index was 0% in 2 patients, 10% in one patient, and 50% in one patient. There was no prognostic relevance of p53 labeling within any of the histological groups. Methylation profiling [3, 5, 6] was available for 36 patients, with classification results as follows: pediatric A in 9 (4 APP, 5 CPP); pediatric B in 25 (3 CPP, 8 APP, 14 CPC); and adult in 2 CPP. One of the three low-grade reference-reviewed CPT with subsequent malignant transformation was a CPP that classified into the high-risk pediatric subgroup B by methylation profiling.
Surgery
Complete resection was documented in 98 patients, partial resection in 56, and biopsy in 4 patients. Extent of surgery did not correlate with demographic variables or primary tumor location, but complete resection was achieved less frequently in CPC compared to APP and CPP (42% versus 69% and 77%, respectively: p = 0.0032), and the average size of completely resected tumors was significantly smaller than those which were only partially resected: 34 cm3 (range 0.5–184) versus 76 cm3 (range 12–415) (Mann Whitney test: p = 0.003). The prognostic impact of complete resection on survival of all CPT appeared significant for EFS and borderline for OS: the five-year EFS and OS rates were 82% (CI95% 72–88) and 89% (CI95% 80–94) versus 64% (CI95% 50–75) and 81% (CI95% 68–89) after complete resection versus less than total resection. However, these differences were confounded by the histological grade. When analyzing within each histological group, there was no significant benefit from surgery for PFS, EFS or OS (for CPC: Supplemental Fig. 2).
Radiotherapy
Following at least two cycles of chemotherapy, 30 patients with CPC and 8 with APP received irradiation. One child with CPP was irradiated because of a local diagnosis of CPC. Eleven patients with CPC received craniospinal irradiation plus local boost (median age at irradiation: 5.9 years, range 3–21.2). Nineteen received local radiotherapy (median age 5.6 years, range 1.5–18.6). The 2-year EFS without and with radiotherapy was 47% (CI95% 27–65) versus 76.5% (CI95% 56.9–88, p = 0.23), respectively. The 2-year OS without and with radiotherapy was 55% (CI95% 34–72) versus 96.7% (CI95% 78.7–99.5), respectively. This difference did not reach statistical significance (Log-rank test: p = 0.052). Among APP patients, for irradiated versus not irradiated, the 5 year OS/PFS was 75%/63% versus 100%/92%, respectively.
Chemotherapy in high-risk CPT (Consort Diagram 2, Fig. 2b)
Chemotherapy was provided to 87 CPT comprising 8 CPP, 24 APP, and 55 CPC (including the three CPC arising via malignant transformation): 35 CarbEV, 41 CycEV, 11 other (site decision). 6 of 18 CPP/APP with incomplete resection had an OR (CR + PR) after two cycles of chemotherapy. 35 patients started CarbEV or CycEV after complete resection; none of these experienced tumor progression during the first two cycles. Twelve of 33 patients with CPC younger than 3 years of age at diagnosis were treated with chemotherapy only (without radiation) and are alive with a median follow-up of 8.52 years (0.86–12.79).
Carboplatin versus cyclophosphamide randomization
As per intention-to-treat (ITT) 20 CPC were randomized for CarbEV and 15 for CycEV. The study arms had matching clinical values gender (equal), extent of resection (GTR in 50% each), metastases (n = 3 in CarbEV, n = 2 in CycEV), radiotherapy (60% versus 64%); median age was higher in CarbEV (3.6 y, 0.22–16) vs CycEV (2.1 y, 0.35–9.4), there were 2 cases with LFS in the CarbEV and 4 in the CycEV arm%). After two cycles of chemotherapy the response of 17 CPC with incomplete resection was 1 CR, 4 PR, 7 SD, 3 PD, and 2 NA; the ORR (CR + PR) here was 55% in CarbEV (n = 9) versus 0% in CycEV (n = 8) (p < 0.05, Fisher Exact Test, treated as randomized group), and none of the 15 completely resected tumors had recurred.
The 5/10 year OS and PFS as per ITT for CarbEV was 73%/51% and 62%/47%, respectively, with 12 alive, compared to 53%/36% and 27%/18%, respectively, for CycEV (HR 2.6, p = 0.032 for PFS), with six alive (Fig. 4).
Safety
Chemotherapy with CarbEV/CycEV was tolerable—within expected range and without treatment-related deaths. Grade 4 toxicity was limited to leukopenia and thrombopenia. All adverse event data are summarized in Supplemental Table 2. Second malignancies were common: 12 subsequent neoplasms were documented in 10 patients (Table 2): one ameloblastoma 10 years after APP; three myeloid malignancies (2.5, 6 and 3.9 years after CPC), one with an additional nephroblastoma; a glioblastoma 4 years after APP, followed by a soft tissue sarcoma in the same patient (died from glioblastoma); a brainstem astrocytoma with a CPP; one rhabdomyosarcoma prior to APP; one epithelioma after CPC (died from CPC); one hemangioma after APP; and one skull base tumor (radiological meningioma/neurinoma) 1.2 years after CPC. All patients with myeloid malignancies died, two of these from treatment-related complications after intensive chemotherapy.
Discussion
We report here the largest prospective and the only randomized trial for choroid plexus tumors published to date. The long median observation time of 7.3 years is one outstanding feature. Histological grade emerged as the most relevant prognostic factor, and the value of CarbEV was established for choroid plexus carcinoma. Limitations are incomplete reference review for histology and radiology, and incomplete molecular work-up.
CPP are low-grade tumors with a very high OS; however, they do not completely follow all characteristics of a benign tumor. While mostly localized, typically in the fourth ventricle, three were metastatic at the time of diagnosis, two of these confirmed as by reference radiology. All three received primary chemotherapy and are alive without event at 8.4, 10 and 14.4 years, with PR, SD, and CR, respectively, after 2 cycles. Two untreated CPP, one with methylation subclass pediatric B, progressed to CPC, which is a recognized, albeit rare, event [27]. Both patients received salvage treatment but died from PD 3.1 and 9.3 years after primary diagnosis.
In contrast to CPP, half of the patients with CPC died despite intensive treatment (Fig. 3a). The study data solidify known demographics (Table 1): patients were young (median age 2.1 years), without gender predominance, CPC were mostly located in the lateral ventricles, and 3/57 of the available family histories were positive for LFS, which is relevant for counselling and treatment choices [28]. The prevalence of de novo LFS is known to be high in CPC [7], but due to limitations of the study this could not be fully addressed. Among the detected TP53-germline mutations, one novel complex deletion was identified; the others confirmed previous listings in COSMIC and IARC TP53. The occurrence of an APP in Sotos syndrome described here is a novel finding, expanding the spectrum of this NSD1-related over-growth and tumor-predisposition [29].
Staining for p53 in this study correlated with histology: all CPT with a labeling index > 30% were CPC. However, this finding was without independent prognostic relevance, apparently contradicting previous reports [30]. The discrepancy might be explained by the integration of histological grade in this analysis (without the covariate, p53 was a negative prognostic variable in this study as reported in others), or by the laboratory technique. Two CPC with underlying LFS had absent staining for p53. Taken together, the data show the limitations of using p53 immunohistochemistry for informing treatment stratification.
This study expands findings from our previous analysis of APP patients [20]. PFS and OS was significantly better for APP patients younger than 2 years at diagnosis (Fig. 3c, d). However, as mitoses are a primary distinguishing feature for this classification, and mitoses are more common in all tissues of infants, the finding might rather reflect the definition of the histological classification, rather than a deep biological principle in choroid plexus tumors [20, 31]. Deferring adjuvant treatment may be justified in select infants with APP and residual tumor [32].
In contrast to common belief [11, 22, 23], this prospective study did not confirm the impact of complete resection in CPC. This is likely the result of improved non-surgical treatment, and the data advocate for staged surgery in the context of comprehensive treatment concepts.
The use of chemotherapy in the treatment of choroid plexus tumors has increased since CPT-SIOP-2000 was designed [17, 21, 33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40] (Table 3). The treatment intensity of many of these protocols is higher than CPT-SIOP-2000, the patient numbers smaller, and the outcome similar [17, 35, 39]. There is no FDA-approved pharmacologic agent that is specific for CPT. A quantitative literature review comparing chemotherapeutic agents suggested benefit of etoposide, carboplatin, cyclophosphamide and vincristine, while similar suggestive evidence was absent for cisplatin, procarbazine and ifosfamide [25]. Since then, methotrexate has been added to the spectrum [19, 33, 34, 37]. CPT-SIOP-2000 adds evidence in support of the use of carboplatin (CarbEV) to achieve superior efficacy (significant for PFS, but not OS) compared to cyclophosphamide (CycEV), however the randomization numbers were low. Long recruitment time and small numbers of randomized patients are potential weakness in the study.
The efficacy of irradiation has been suggested in retrospective analyses [22, 23]. This study confirmed a trend toward longer survival. However, assignment of irradiation remains constrained due to the well-known late neuropsychological sequelae in younger children. Furthermore, particularly in the context of LFS, second malignancies remain a concern. A recent literature review was inconclusive with respect to specific indications for chemotherapy and radiotherapy [13].
Establishing a treatment algorithm as guidance was a major objective of the CPT-SIOP-2000 study, and the algorithm developed was widely followed in the international pediatric neuro-oncology community. Comparing the overall outcome of this study to the original literature analysis suggests a benefit of a structured algorithm in that the 2-year survival rate in the historical data collection was only half of what was found in CPT-SIOP-2000 [15, 19, 21, 23, 25]. Subsequent guidelines were more detailed and included response to treatment and LFS status [28, 30].
Conclusion
CPT-SIOP-2000 demonstrates the feasibility of an international randomized clinical trial. CarbEV is effective and tolerable when nested in a multidisciplinary guideline framework. The robust findings of this study add long-term survival data as a benchmark for future intervention, and will help design risk-stratified guidelines.
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We want to thank the patients, parents and investigators for enrolling and providing data (Supplemental Table 4), Brigitte Wrede and Stefan Hartung for managing the study and registry, and Peter Thall and Richard Sposto for statistical support, as well as David Ellison, Martin Hasselblatt, Werner Paulus and Torsten Pietsch for reference neuropathology review. The Choroid Plexus Tumor study was, and the registry currently is, supported by the Deutsche Kinderkrebsstiftung DKKS (German childhood Cancer Foundation). Jonathan Finlay and Rejin Kebudi were the Data Monitors for this study. The European CPT collaboration is ongoing with further registries, as well as guidelines.
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Wolff, J.E., Van Gool, S.W., Kutluk, T. et al. Final results of the Choroid Plexus Tumor study CPT-SIOP-2000. J Neurooncol 156, 599–613 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11060-021-03942-0
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