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Tumor Mutational Load and Immune Parameters across Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Risk Groups.
Cancer immunology research - 1 Oct 2016
de Velasco Guillermo, Miao Diana, Voss Martin H, Hakimi A Ari, Hsieh James J, Tannir Nizar M, Tamboli Pheroze, Appleman Leonard J, Rathmell W Kimryn, Van Allen Eliezer M, Choueiri Toni K
Abstract excerpt
Patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) have better overall survival when treated with nivolumab, a cancer immunotherapy that targets the immune checkpoint inhibitor programmed cell death 1 (PD-1), rather than everolimus (a chemical inhibitor of mTOR and immunosuppressant). Poor-risk mRCC patients treated with nivolumab seemed to experience the greatest overall survival benefit, compared with...
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