Résumé
Baseline genomic data have not demonstrated significant value for predicting the response duration to MAPK inhibitors (MAPKi) in patients with advanced BRAF V600 -mutated melanoma. We used machine learning algorithms and pre-processed genomic data to test whether they could contain useful information to improve the progression-free survival (PFS) prediction. This exploratory analysis compared the predictive performance of a dataset that contained clinical features alone and supplemented with baseline genomic data. In the evaluation set (two cohorts, n = 111), the cross-validated model performance improved when pre-processed genomic data, such as mutation rates, were added to the clinical features. In the validation dataset (two cohorts, n = 73), the best model with genomic data outperformed the best model with clinical features alone. Finally, our best model outperformed with baseline genomic data, increasing the number of patients with a correctly predicted relapse by between +12% and +28%. In our models, baseline genomic data improved the prediction of response duration and could be incorporated into the development of predictive models of MAPKi treatment in melanoma.