Can the tumor-agnostic evaluation of MSI/MMR status be the common denominator for the immunotherapy treatment of patients with several solid tumors?

D Fanale, LR Corsini, R Scalia, C Brando… - Critical Reviews in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Alterations in short-repetitive DNA sequences, known as microsatellite instability (MSI), can
reflect deficiencies in Mismatch Repair (MMR) system which represents a major player in …

Outcomes following immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment of patients with microsatellite instability-high cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis

F Petrelli, M Ghidini, A Ghidini, G Tomasello - JAMA oncology, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The mismatch repair (MMR) pathway plays a crucial role in repairing DNA
replication errors in normal and cancer cells. Defects in DNA MMR proteins that determine …

[HTML][HTML] ESMO recommendations on microsatellite instability testing for immunotherapy in cancer, and its relationship with PD-1/PD-L1 expression and tumour …

C Luchini, F Bibeau, MJL Ligtenberg, N Singh… - Annals of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Cancers with a defective DNA mismatch repair (dMMR) system contain
thousands of mutations most frequently located in monomorphic microsatellites and are …

Microsatellite instability status predicts response to anti-PD-1/PD-L1 therapy regardless the histotype: A comment on recent advances

S Vranic - Biomolecules and Biomedicine, 2017 - bjbms.org
It is well-known that somatic mutations resulting in increased number of neoantigens
(“immunogenic antigens”) may enhance anti-tumor immune cell reaction. Also, high tumor …

[HTML][HTML] How I treat MSI cancers with advanced disease

M Kok, M Chalabi, J Haanen - ESMO open, 2019 - Elsevier
Mismatch repair deficiency (dMMR) results in microsatellite instability (MSI) and is strongly
associated with responsiveness to programmed death-1 receptor (PD-1)-blocking …

Efficacy of pembrolizumab in phase 2 KEYNOTE-164 and KEYNOTE-158 studies of microsatellite instability high cancers

L Diaz, A Marabelle, TW Kim, R Geva… - Annals of …, 2017 - annalsofoncology.org
Background: A high level of microsatellite instability (MSI-H) is indicative of a tumor deficient
in mismatch repair (dMMR). Prior reports suggest that anti-PD-1 antibody therapy provides …

Comparison of standard mismatch repair deficiency and microsatellite instability tests in a large cancer series

ML Nádorvári, I Kenessey, A Kiss, T Barbai… - Journal of Translational …, 2024 - Springer
Background The tumor-agnostic indication of immune checkpoint inhibitors to treat cancers
with mismatch repair deficiency (dMMR)/microsatellite instability (MSI) increased the …

[HTML][HTML] Real-world application of tumor mutational burden-high (TMB-high) and microsatellite instability (MSI) confirms their utility as immunotherapy biomarkers

M Palmeri, J Mehnert, AW Silk, SK Jabbour, S Ganesan… - ESMO open, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction Microsatellite instability (MSI) testing and tumor mutational burden (TMB) are
genomic biomarkers used to identify patients who are likely to benefit from immune …

Immunotherapy of MSI Cancer: Facts and Hopes

HC Wilbur, DT Le, P Agarwal - Clinical Cancer Research, 2024 - AACR
Microsatellite instability (MSI) is a tumor molecular phenotype that evolves from loss of
function in the mismatch repair (MMR) proteins through deleterious germline mutations …

Why is immunotherapy effective (or not) in patients with MSI/MMRD tumors?

L Nebot-Bral, C Coutzac, PL Kannouche, N Chaput - Bulletin Du Cancer, 2019 - Elsevier
In the last few years, immunotherapy has revolutionized the oncology landscape by
targeting the host immune system. Blocking immune checkpoints such as cytotoxic T …