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Biological and technical factors in the assessment of blood-based tumor mutational burden (bTMB) in patients with NSCLC.
Journal for immunotherapy of cancer - 1 Feb 2022
Schuurbiers Milou, Huang Zhongyun, Saelee Senglor, Javey Manana, de Visser Leonie, van den Broek Daan, Heuvel Michel van den, Lovejoy Alexander F, Monkhorst Kim, Klass Daniel
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BACKGROUND: Patients treated with immunotherapy are at risk of considerable adverse events, and the ongoing struggle is to accurately identify the subset of patients who will benefit. Tumor mutational burden (TMB) has emerged as a promising predictive biomarker but requires tumor tissue which is not always available. Blood-based TMB (bTMB) may provide a minimally invasive assessment of mutational load. However,...
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