Challenges and Future Directions in the Management of Tumor Mutational Burden-High (TMB-H) Advanced Solid Malignancies

J Ahmed, B Das, S Shin, A Chen - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary When employing a high tumor mutational burden (TMB) as a predictive
biomarker for immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) response, one faces various challenges. It is …

Tumor mutational burden as a predictive biomarker in solid tumors

D Sha, Z Jin, J Budczies, K Kluck, A Stenzinger… - Cancer discovery, 2020 - AACR
Tumor mutational burden (TMB), defined as the number of somatic mutations per megabase
of interrogated genomic sequence, varies across malignancies. Panel sequencing–based …

High tumor mutational burden predicts survival and responses to ICI immunotherapy in a cancer-dependent manner

F Tang, T Lan, Z Liu, ZF Wang, ZQ Li - medRxiv, 2023 - medrxiv.org
Objective High tumor mutational burden (TMB) is a promising biomarker for patients with
immunotherapy in certain types of solid tumors. This article focuses on exploring possible …

Researchers strive to refine TMB

J Hainesworth - Cancer Discovery, 2021 - AACR
Increasingly, oncologists are turning to tumor mutation burden (TMB) as a biomarker of
response to immune checkpoint inhibitors. However, recent research suggests that TMB …

[HTML][HTML] Pan-cancer analysis of heterogeneity of tumor mutational burden and genomic mutation under treatment pressure

RJ Huang, YS Huang, N An, JJ Hu, CY Wu, YX Chen… - ESMO Open, 2024 - Elsevier
Background High tumor mutational burden (TMB) is one of the widely researched predictive
biomarkers of immune checkpoint inhibitors and has been shown to be closely related with …

Utility of tumor mutational burden as a biomarker for response to immune checkpoint inhibition in the VA population

MR Scobie, KI Zhou, S Ahmed, MJ Kelley - JCO Precision Oncology, 2023 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are used for an increasing number of
indications across various tumor types, as well as several tumor-agnostic indications in …

The challenges of tumor mutational burden as an immunotherapy biomarker

DL Jardim, A Goodman, D de Melo Gagliato… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Tumor mutational burden (TMB) reflects cancer mutation quantity. Mutations are processed
to neo-antigens and presented by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins to T …

Tumor mutational burden standardization initiatives: recommendations for consistent tumor mutational burden assessment in clinical samples to guide immunotherapy …

A Stenzinger, JD Allen, J Maas… - Genes …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Characterization of tumors utilizing next‐generation sequencing methods, including
assessment of the number of somatic mutations (tumor mutational burden [TMB]), is currently …

Interplay between Tumor Mutational Burden and Mutational Profile and its effect on overall survival: a pilot study of metastatic patients treated with Immune Checkpoint …

CB Xavier, CDH Lopes, BM Awni, EF Campos… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Recently, patients with high-TMB tumors received agnostic FDA approval
to be treated with pembrolizumab. However, some high-TMB patients do not show clinical …

Prognostic role of tumor mutational burden in cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: a systematic review and meta-analysis

T Huang, X Chen, H Zhang, Y Liang, L Li, H Wei… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Purpose Immunotherapy is regarded as the most promising treatment for cancer. However,
immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are not effective for all patients. Herein, we conducted a …