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Genomics of NSCLC patients both affirm PD-L1 expression and predict their clinical responses to anti-PD-1 immunotherapy.
BMC cancer - 27 Feb 2018
Brogden Kim A, Parashar Deepak, Hallier Andrea R, Braun Terry, Qian Fang, Rizvi Naiyer A, Bossler Aaron D, Milhem Mohammed M, Chan Timothy A, Abbasi Taher, Vali Shireen
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Programmed Death Ligand 1 (PD-L1) is a co-stimulatory and immune checkpoint protein. PD-L1 expression in non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC) is a hallmark of adaptive resistance and its expression is often used to predict the outcome of Programmed Death 1 (PD-1) and PD-L1 immunotherapy treatments. However, clinical benefits do not occur in all patients and new approaches are needed to assist in...
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