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HCC-neuroendocrine transition: Tumor plasticity under immunotherapy
Transición de CHC a tumor neuroendocrino: plasticidad tumoral bajo inmunoterapia
Marco Sanduzzi-Zamparellia,, Carla Fuster-Angladab,, Jordi Bruixa, Maria Reiga,
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, Alba Díazb,
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madiaz@clinic.cat

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a BCLC Group, Liver Unit, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, IDIBAPS, CIBERehd, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
b BCLC Group, Department of Pathology, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, IDIBAPS, CIBERehd, University of Barcelona, Spain
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It reflects the capacity of a cell to transit into a new and different histological subtype&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0035"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> Once it occurs&#44; tumor plasticity generates intra-tumoral heterogeneity&#44; thus playing a crucial role in therapy resistance and in metastatic dissemination&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0040"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> In particular&#44; the neuroendocrine transition represents the most known pathway of lineage plasticity in cancer and usually includes the adaptation of adenocarcinomas to more aggressive neuroendocrine phenotypes under therapy&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0035"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> Around 5&#37; of EGFR-mutant lung adenocarcinomas&#44; and more than 20&#37; of prostate adenocarcinomas treated with targeted therapies indeed present the transformation into the more aggressive neuroendocrine phenotype&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0045"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4&#44;5</span></a> The current hypothesis of this transition suggests that genetic and epigenetic events promote lineage plasticity and trigger the intra-tumoral heterogeneity&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0035"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> Subsequently a plasticity-permissive microenvironment&#44; together with the treatment-exerted selective pressure prime the stem-cell phenotype acquisition and subsequently the transition into the new predominant histological clones&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0035"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> Although the pre-treatment presence of scattered neuroendocrine cells into prostate cancer under androgen deprivation therapy has been reported to correlate with poor prognosis&#44; the potential origin of neuroendocrine transition from these cells remains uncertain&#46;</p><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">It could be argued that our patient suffered from a false positive result of the initial tumor biopsy&#44; but this is extremely unlikely&#46; First&#44; primary hepatic neuroendocrine tumors and neuroendocrine carcinomas of the liver are rare and HCC with neuroendocrine component are exceptionally rare&#46; Second&#44; in our case the tumor was well represented with the first biopsy so different parts of the nodule were assessed and if the neuroendocrine component would have existed&#44; it could have been detected in the first biopsy&#46;</p><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In conclusion&#44; this case represents the first documented event of neuroendocrine transition in the setting of HCC&#46; This observation is of utmost relevance considering that an immunotherapy-based regimens is included in the current standard of care for the systemic treatment of patients with HCC since 2020 and that the combination of tremelimumab with durvalumab has recently been announced to be superior in comparison to sorafenib in first-line &#40;<a href="ctgov:NCT03298451">NCT03298451</a>&#41;&#46; Both combinations obtain high rate of objective responses&#44; but upon progression and consideration for Second-Line option&#44; it seems worth to consider a new biopsy to rule out a major change in tumor phenotype that may mandate a completely different treatment approach&#46; Accordingly&#44; we strongly endorse recent tumor biopsy before starting a subsequent line of systemic therapy and even more&#44; when patients are considered for recruitment into research trials&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0015" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0015">Ethical considerations</span><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The study protocol conforms to the ethical guidelines of the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0020">Funding</span><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">MSZ&#58; received grant support from <span class="elsevierStyleGrantSponsor" id="gs1">Instituto de Salud Carlos III</span> &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleGrantNumber" refid="gs1">FI19&#47;00222</span>&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">CFA&#58; received grant support from <span class="elsevierStyleGrantSponsor" id="gs2">Contractes Cl&#237;nic de Recerca &#8220;Emili Letang-Josep Font&#8221; 2020</span>&#44; granted by Hospital Cl&#237;nic de Barcelona&#46;</p><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">JB&#58; received grant support from <span class="elsevierStyleGrantSponsor" id="gs3">Instituto de Salud Carlos III</span> &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleGrantNumber" refid="gs3">PI18&#47;00768</span>&#41;&#44; the <span class="elsevierStyleGrantSponsor" id="gs4">Spanish Health Ministry &#40;National Strategic Plan against Hepatitis C&#41;</span>&#44; AECC &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleGrantNumber" refid="gs4">PI044031</span>&#41; and WCR &#40;AICR&#41; 16-0026&#46;</p><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">MR&#58; received grant support from <span class="elsevierStyleGrantSponsor" id="gs5">Instituto de Salud Carlos III</span> &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleGrantNumber" refid="gs5">PI15&#47;00145</span> and <span class="elsevierStyleGrantNumber" refid="gs5">PI18&#47;0358</span>&#41; and from the Spanish Health Ministry &#40;National Strategic Plan against Hepatitis C&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">CIBERehd&#58; 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