Tumour burden and efficacy of immune-checkpoint inhibitors

FG Dall'Olio, A Marabelle, C Caramella… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
Accumulating evidence suggests that a high tumour burden has a negative effect on
anticancer immunity. The concept of tumour burden, simply defined as the total amount of …

ctDNA as a cancer biomarker: A broad overview

LS Pessoa, M Heringer, VP Ferrer - Critical reviews in oncology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in fluids has gained attention because ctDNA seems to
identify tumor-specific abnormalities, which could be used for diagnosis, follow-up of …

[HTML][HTML] ctDNA response after pembrolizumab in non-small cell lung cancer: phase 2 adaptive trial results

V Anagnostou, C Ho, G Nicholas, RA Juergens… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) has shown promise in capturing primary resistance to
immunotherapy. BR. 36 is a multi-center, randomized, ctDNA-directed, phase 2 trial of …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Updates on liquid biopsy: Current trends and future perspectives for clinical application in solid tumors

P Pinzani, V D'Argenio, M Del Re… - Clinical Chemistry and …, 2021 - degruyter.com
Despite advances in screening and therapeutics cancer continues to be one of the major
causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The molecular profile of tumor is routinely …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid biopsy approaches to capture tumor evolution and clinical outcomes during cancer immunotherapy

L Sivapalan, JC Murray, JVL Canzoniero… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Circulating cell-free tumor DNA (ctDNA) can serve as a real-time biomarker of tumor burden
and provide unique insights into the evolving molecular landscape of cancers under the …

Circulating tumour DNA in patients with advanced melanoma treated with dabrafenib or dabrafenib plus trametinib: a clinical validation study

MM Syeda, JM Wiggins, BC Corless, GV Long… - The lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Melanoma lacks validated blood-based biomarkers for monitoring and
predicting treatment efficacy. Cell-free circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) is a promising …

Immunotherapy discontinuation—how, and when? Data from melanoma as a paradigm

C Robert, A Marabelle, H Herrscher… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
The optimal duration of therapy in patients receiving immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) is a
new but crucial question that has arisen owing to the observation of durable remissions in> …

[HTML][HTML] miRNAs in the Diagnosis and Prognosis of Skin Cancer

M Neagu, C Constantin, SM Cretoiu… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Skin cancer is, at present, the most common type of malignancy in the Caucasian
population. Its incidence has increased rapidly in the last decade for both melanoma and …

Circulating tumor DNA predicts outcome from first-, but not second-line treatment and identifies melanoma patients who may benefit from combination immunotherapy

G Marsavela, J Lee, L Calapre, SQ Wong… - Clinical Cancer …, 2020 - AACR
Purpose: We evaluated the predictive value of pretreatment ctDNA to inform therapeutic
outcomes in patients with metastatic melanoma relative to type and line of treatment …