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MDPI, Cancers, 2(13), p. 277, 2021

DOI: 10.3390/cancers13020277

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The Multiple Potential Biomarkers for Predicting Immunotherapy Response—Finding the Needle in the Haystack

Journal article published in 2021 by Tamiem Adam ORCID, Therese M. Becker ORCID, Wei Chua, Victoria Bray, Tara L. Roberts ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are being increasingly utilised in a variety of advanced malignancies. Despite promising outcomes in certain patients, the majority will not derive benefit and are at risk of potentially serious immune-related adverse events (irAEs). The development of predictive biomarkers is therefore critical to personalise treatments and improve outcomes. A number of biomarkers have shown promising results, including from tumour (programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1), tumour mutational burden (TMB), stimulator of interferon genes (STING) and apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a CARD (ASC)), from blood (peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA), exosomes, cytokines and metal chelators) and finally the microbiome.