Mutational signatures: emerging concepts, caveats and clinical applications

G Koh, A Degasperi, X Zou, S Momen… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Whole-genome sequencing has brought the cancer genomics community into new territory.
Thanks to the sheer power provided by the thousands of mutations present in each patient's …

Immunotherapy in colorectal cancer: rationale, challenges and potential

K Ganesh, ZK Stadler, A Cercek… - Nature reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Following initial successes in melanoma treatment, immunotherapy has rapidly become
established as a major treatment modality for multiple types of solid cancers, including a …

First-line durvalumab and tremelimumab with chemotherapy in RAS-mutated metastatic colorectal cancer: a phase 1b/2 trial

M Thibaudin, JD Fumet, B Chibaudel, J Bennouna… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Although patients with microsatellite instable metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) benefit from
immune checkpoint blockade, chemotherapy with targeted therapies remains the only …

Somatic genomic testing in patients with metastatic or advanced cancer: ASCO provisional clinical opinion

D Chakravarty, A Johnson, J Sklar… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE An ASCO provisional clinical opinion offers timely clinical direction to ASCO's
membership following publication or presentation of potentially practice-changing data from …

Deficient mismatch repair/microsatellite unstable colorectal cancer: Diagnosis, prognosis and treatment

J Taieb, M Svrcek, R Cohen, D Basile… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microsatellite unstable (MSI) colorectal cancers (CRCs) are due to DNA mismatch repair
(MMR) deficiency and occurs in15% of non-metastatic diseases and 5% in the metastatic …

[HTML][HTML] Development of tumor mutation burden as an immunotherapy biomarker: utility for the oncology clinic

TA Chan, M Yarchoan, E Jaffee, C Swanton… - Annals of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Treatment with immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) with agents such as anti-
programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1), anti-programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1), and/or …

Genomic and transcriptomic determinants of response to neoadjuvant therapy in rectal cancer

WK Chatila, JK Kim, H Walch, MR Marco, CT Chen… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
The incidence of rectal cancer is increasing in patients younger than 50 years. Locally
advanced rectal cancer is still treated with neoadjuvant radiation, chemotherapy and …

Analysis of the prevalence of microsatellite instability in prostate cancer and response to immune checkpoint blockade

W Abida, ML Cheng, J Armenia, S Middha… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The anti–programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) antibody pembrolizumab is
approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of microsatellite …

The association between tumor mutational burden and prognosis is dependent on treatment context

C Valero, M Lee, D Hoen, J Wang, Z Nadeem, N Patel… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In multiple cancer types, high tumor mutational burden (TMB) is associated with longer
survival after treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). The association of TMB with …

[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 …