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The role of immune checkpoint inhibitors for patients with advanced stage microsatellite stable colorectal cancer and high tumor mutation burden: quantity or quality?
Expert opinion on biological therapy - 1 Jan 2000
Vegivinti Charan Thej Reddy, Gonzales Gomez Cyndi, Syed Masood, Ferrell Morgan, Cheng Svea, Singhi Aatur, Saeed Anwaar, Sahin Ibrahim Halil
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INTRODUCTION: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved pembrolizumab for patients with unresectable or metastatic solid tumors with tumor mutational burden (TMB) of ≥ 10 mutations/megabase. However, the clinical implications of this universal cutoff of TMB ≥ 10 for patients with microsatellite stable (MSS) metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) remain debatable. AREAS COVERED: In this review, we discuss the...
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