Prognostic and predictive impact of circulating tumor DNA in patients with advanced cancers treated with immune checkpoint blockade

QU Zhang, J Luo, S Wu, H Si, C Gao, W Xu… - Cancer discovery, 2020 - AACR
The utility of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) as a biomarker in patients with advanced
cancers receiving immunotherapy is uncertain. We therefore analyzed pretreatment (n= 978) …

Personalized circulating tumor DNA analysis as a predictive biomarker in solid tumor patients treated with pembrolizumab

SV Bratman, SYC Yang, MAJ Iafolla, Z Liu, AR Hansen… - Nature Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) provides clinical benefit to a subset of patients with
cancer. However, existing biomarkers do not reliably predict treatment response across …

Clinical potential of circulating tumour DNA in patients receiving anticancer immunotherapy

L Cabel, C Proudhon, E Romano, N Girard… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2018 - nature.com
Considerable interest surrounds the use of immune-checkpoint inhibitors in patients with
solid tumours following the demonstration of the impressive clinical efficacy of anti …

Circulating tumor DNA analysis to assess risk of progression after long-term response to PD-(L) 1 blockade in NSCLC

MD Hellmann, BY Nabet, H Rizvi, AA Chaudhuri… - Clinical Cancer …, 2020 - AACR
Abstract Purpose: Treatment with PD-(L) 1 blockade can produce remarkably durable
responses in patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, a significant …

Pan-cancer analysis of longitudinal metastatic tumors reveals genomic alterations and immune landscape dynamics associated with pembrolizumab sensitivity

SY Cindy Yang, SC Lien, BX Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Serial circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) monitoring is emerging as a non-invasive strategy to
predict and monitor immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapeutic efficacy across cancer …

Early assessment of lung cancer immunotherapy response via circulating tumor DNA

SB Goldberg, A Narayan, AJ Kole, RH Decker… - Clinical Cancer …, 2018 - AACR
Purpose: Decisions to continue or suspend therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors are
commonly guided by tumor dynamics seen on serial imaging. However, immunotherapy …

Changes in circulating tumor DNA reflect clinical benefit across multiple studies of patients with non–small-cell lung cancer treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors

DM Vega, KK Nishimura, N Zariffa… - JCO Precision …, 2022 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE As immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) become increasingly used in frontline
settings, identifying early indicators of response is needed. Recent studies suggest a role for …

Circulating tumor DNA analysis as a real-time method for monitoring tumor burden in melanoma patients undergoing treatment with immune checkpoint blockade

EJ Lipson, VE Velculescu, TS Pritchard… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2014 - Springer
Background Assessment of therapeutic activity of drugs blocking immune checkpoints such
as CTLA-4 and PD-1/PD-L1 can be challenging, as tumors may seem to enlarge or appear …

Current and future clinical applications of ctDNA in immuno-oncology

JC Stadler, Y Belloum, B Deitert, M Sementsov… - Cancer Research, 2022 - AACR
Testing peripheral blood for circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) offers a minimally invasive
opportunity to diagnose, characterize, and monitor the disease in individual cancer patients …

Dynamics of tumor and immune responses during immune checkpoint blockade in non–small cell lung cancer

V Anagnostou, PM Forde, JR White, N Niknafs… - Cancer research, 2019 - AACR
Despite the initial successes of immunotherapy, there is an urgent clinical need for
molecular assays that identify patients more likely to respond. Here, we report that …