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Hypermutated Circulating Tumor DNA: Correlation with Response to Checkpoint Inhibitor-Based Immunotherapy.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Oct 2017
Khagi Yulian, Goodman Aaron M, Daniels Gregory A, Patel Sandip P, Sacco Assuntina G, Randall James M, Bazhenova Lyudmila A, Kurzrock Razelle
Abstract excerpt
Purpose: Tumor mutational burden detected by tissue next-generation sequencing (NGS) correlates with checkpoint inhibitor response. However, tissue biopsy may be costly and invasive. We sought to investigate the association between hypermutated blood-derived circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) and checkpoint inhibitor response.Experimental Design: We assessed 69 patients with diverse malignancies who received...
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