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Burden of Nonsynonymous Mutations among TCGA Cancers and Candidate Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Responses.
Cancer research - 1 Jul 2016
Colli Leandro M, Machiela Mitchell J, Myers Timothy A, Jessop Lea, Yu Kai, Chanock Stephen J
Abstract excerpt
Immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment represents a promising approach toward treating cancer and has been shown to be effective in a subset of melanoma, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and kidney cancers. Recent studies have suggested that the number of nonsynonymous mutations (NsM) can be used to select melanoma and NSCLC patients most likely to benefit from checkpoint inhibitor treatment. It is hypothesized...
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