[HTML][HTML] The challenges of tumor mutational burden as an immunotherapy biomarker

DL Jardim, A Goodman, D de Melo Gagliato… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Tumor mutational burden (TMB) reflects cancer mutation quantity. Mutations are processed
to neo-antigens and presented by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins to T …

Tumor mutational burden as a predictive biomarker in solid tumors

D Sha, Z **, J Budczies, K Kluck, A Stenzinger… - Cancer …, 2020 - aacrjournals.org
Tumor mutational burden (TMB), defined as the number of somatic mutations per megabase
of interrogated genomic sequence, varies across malignancies. Panel sequencing–based …

Association of high tumor mutation burden in non–small cell lung cancers with increased immune infiltration and improved clinical outcomes of PD-L1 blockade across …

B Ricciuti, X Wang, JV Alessi, H Rizvi… - JAMA …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Although tumor mutation burden (TMB) has been explored as a potential
biomarker of immunotherapy efficacy in solid tumors, there still is a lack of consensus about …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic characterization of metastatic patterns from prospective clinical sequencing of 25,000 patients

B Nguyen, C Fong, A Luthra, SA Smith, RG DiNatale… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Metastatic progression is the main cause of death in cancer patients, whereas the
underlying genomic mechanisms driving metastasis remain largely unknown. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] High tumor mutation burden fails to predict immune checkpoint blockade response across all cancer types

DJ McGrail, PG Pilié, NU Rashid, L Voorwerk… - Annals of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background High tumor mutation burden (TMB-H) has been proposed as a predictive
biomarker for response to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB), largely due to the potential for …

[HTML][HTML] Diminished efficacy of programmed death-(ligand) 1 inhibition in STK11-and KEAP1-mutant lung adenocarcinoma is affected by KRAS mutation status

B Ricciuti, KC Arbour, JJ Lin, A Vajdi, N Vokes… - Journal of Thoracic …, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction STK11 and KEAP1 mutations (STK11 mutant [STK11 MUT] and KEAP1 MUT)
are among the most often mutated genes in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD). Although STK11 …

[HTML][HTML] Meta-analysis of tumor-and T cell-intrinsic mechanisms of sensitization to checkpoint inhibition

K Litchfield, JL Reading, C Puttick, K Thakkar… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Checkpoint inhibitors (CPIs) augment adaptive immunity. Systematic pan-tumor analyses
may reveal the relative importance of tumor-cell-intrinsic and microenvironmental features …

TMB or not TMB as a biomarker: That is the question

A Addeo, A Friedlaender, GL Banna… - Critical reviews in oncology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have revolutionized the landscape of therapeutic
options for many cancers. These treatments have demonstrated improved efficacy and often …

Clinicopathologic and genomic factors impacting efficacy of first-line chemoimmunotherapy in advanced NSCLC

JV Alessi, A Elkrief, B Ricciuti, X Wang… - Journal of Thoracic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction Although programmed cell death protein 1 and programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-
L1) blockade in combination with platinum-doublet chemotherapy has become a mainstay of …

CTLA4 blockade abrogates KEAP1/STK11-related resistance to PD-(L)1 inhibitors

F Skoulidis, HA Araujo, MT Do, Y Qian, X Sun… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
For patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), dual immune checkpoint
blockade (ICB) with CTLA4 inhibitors and PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitors (hereafter, PD-(L) 1 …