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Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in pMMR Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: A Tough Challenge
17 Aug 2020
Abstract excerpt
The introduction of checkpoint inhibitors provided remarkable achievements in several solid tumors but only 5% of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients, i.e., those with bearing microsatellite instable (MSI-high)/deficient DNA mismatch repair (dMMR) tumors, benefit from this approach. The favorable effect of immunotherapy in these patients has been postulated to be due to an increase in neoantigens due to...
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