ArticleCancers2022
Maximum Somatic Allele Frequency-Adjusted Blood-Based Tumor Mutational Burden Predicts the Efficacy of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.
Article in Cancers, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Predictive biomarkers of response and survival following immunotherapy with a PD-L1 inhibitor benmelstobart (TQB2450) and antiangiogenic therapy with a VEGFR inhibitor anlotinib for pretreated advanced triple negative breast cancer.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2023Article
- Biomarkers for Immunotherapy in Driver-Gene-Negative Advanced NSCLC.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
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Abstract
introductionRecent studies exhibited the unstable prediction ability of blood-based tumor mutational burden (bTMB) when predicting the response of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) therapy in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) abundance, usually represented by maximum somatic allele frequency (MSAF), was one possible confounding factor influencing bTMB ability in ICIs response prediction.
methodsMSAF-adjusted bTMB (Ma-bTMB) was established and validated in patients with advanced NSCLC among Geneplus Cancer Genome Database (GCGD,
resultsMSAF demonstrated a modest positive correlation with bTMB and a negative one with survival benefit. Improved survival outcomes of ICIs therapy have been observed among patients with high-Ma-bTMB compared to those with low-Ma-bTMB in Zhuo and Wang cohorts. In addition, compared to low-Ma-bTMB, high-Ma-bTMB was associated with more positive clinical benefits from ICIs therapy than chemotherapy both in POPLAR and OAK cohorts. Further exploration suggested that Ma-bTMB could precisely identify more potential ICIs beneficiaries compared to bTMB and LAF-bTMB, complementary to PD-L1 expression.
conclusionsWe developed Ma-bTMB, a convenient, readily available, non-invasive predictive biomarker effectively differentiates beneficiaries of ICIs therapy in advanced NSCLC, warranting future clinical trials.
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