Moving pan-cancer studies from basic research toward the clinic

F Chen, MC Wendl, MA Wyczalkowski, MH Bailey, Y Li… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Although all cancers share common hallmarks, we have long realized that there is no silver-
bullet treatment for the disease. Many clinical oncologists specialize in a single cancer type …

Tumor mutational burden as a predictor of immunotherapy response: is more always better?

JH Strickler, BA Hanks, M Khasraw - Clinical Cancer Research, 2021 - AACR
Immune checkpoint inhibitors, including antibodies that block programmed cell death protein-
1 (PD-1) and PD-L1, have transformed the management of many cancers. However, the …

TMB in NSCLC: a broken dream?

S Bravaccini, G Bronte, P Ulivi - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Although immune checkpoint inhibitors have changed the treatment paradigm of a variety of
cancers, including non-small-cell lung cancer, not all patients respond to immunotherapy in …

[HTML][HTML] Associations of tissue tumor mutational burden and mutational status with clinical outcomes in KEYNOTE-042: Pembrolizumab versus chemotherapy for …

TSK Mok, G Lopes, BC Cho, DM Kowalski… - Annals of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background We evaluated whether tissue tumor mutational burden (tTMB) and STK11,
KEAP1, and KRAS mutations have clinical utility as biomarkers for pembrolizumab …

A mutation-based gene set predicts survival benefit after immunotherapy across multiple cancers and reveals the immune response landscape

J Long, D Wang, A Wang, P Chen, Y Lin, J Bian… - Genome medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy has revolutionized the treatment of
many cancers. However, the limited population that benefits from ICI therapy makes it …

Tremelimumab plus durvalumab retreatment and 4-year outcomes in patients with mesothelioma: a follow-up of the open label, non-randomised, phase 2 NIBIT …

L Calabrò, G Rossi, A Morra, C Rosati… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Summary Background The NIBIT-MESO-1 study demonstrated the efficacy and safety of
tremelimumab combined with durvalumab in patient with unresectable mesothelioma …

PD-L1 expression is significantly associated with tumor mutation burden and microsatellite instability score

YA Cho, H Lee, DG Kim, H Kim, SY Ha, YL Choi… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Biomarkers for predicting the response to immune checkpoint blockade
(ICB) includes programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) immunohistochemistry (IHC) …

Panels and models for accurate prediction of tumor mutation burden in tumor samples

E Martínez-Pérez, MA Molina-Vila… - NPJ Precision …, 2021 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) is becoming standard-of-care in many types of human
malignancies, but patient selection is still imperfect. Tumor mutation burden (TMB) is being …

Prevalence and landscape of actionable genomic alterations in renal cell carcinoma

K Attalla, RG DiNatale, PM Rappold, CJ Fong… - Clinical Cancer …, 2021 - AACR
Purpose: We report our experience with next-generation sequencing to characterize the
landscape of actionable genomic alterations in renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Experimental …

[HTML][HTML] RNA-seq reveals differences in expressed tumor mutation burden in colorectal and endometrial cancers with and without defective DNA-mismatch repair

MA DiGuardo, JI Davila, RA Jackson, AA Nair… - The Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Tumor mutation burden (TMB) is an emerging biomarker of immunotherapy response. RNA
sequencing in FFPE tissue samples was used for determining TMB in microsatellite-stable …