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 …

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T-cell therapy in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC): current status and future perspectives

J Qu, Q Mei, L Chen, J Zhou - Cancer immunology, immunotherapy, 2021 - Springer
There has been a rapid progress in developing genetically engineered T cells in recent
years both in basic and clinical cancer studies. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells …

Ancestry-driven recalibration of tumor mutational burden and disparate clinical outcomes in response to immune checkpoint inhibitors

AH Nassar, E Adib, S Abou Alaiwi, T El Zarif, S Groha… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) pembrolizumab is US FDA approved for treatment of
solid tumors with high tumor mutational burden (TMB-high;≥ 10 variants/Mb). However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Aligning tumor mutational burden (TMB) quantification across diagnostic platforms: phase II of the Friends of Cancer Research TMB Harmonization Project

DM Vega, LM Yee, LM McShane, PM Williams… - Annals of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Tumor mutational burden (TMB) measurements aid in identifying patients who
are likely to benefit from immunotherapy; however, there is empirical variability across panel …

Positive association between location of melanoma, ultraviolet signature, tumor mutational burden, and response to anti–PD-1 therapy

L Dousset, F Poizeau, C Robert, S Mansard… - JCO precision …, 2021 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Emerging evidence suggests a correlation between the tumor mutational burden
(TMB) and the response to programmed cell death-1 protein (PD-1) monotherapy across …

[HTML][HTML] A clinician's guide to bioinformatics for next-generation sequencing

NB Larson, AL Oberg, AA Adjei, L Wang - Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 2023 - Elsevier
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are high-throughput methods for DNA
sequencing and have become a widely adopted tool in cancer research. The sheer amount …

Germline sequencing improves tumor-only sequencing interpretation in a precision genomic study of patients with pediatric solid tumor

J Schienda, AJ Church, LB Corson, B Decker… - JCO precision …, 2021 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Molecular tumor profiling is becoming a routine part of clinical cancer care,
typically involving tumor-only panel testing without matched germline. We hypothesized that …

Inflation of tumor mutation burden by tumor-only sequencing in under-represented groups

YW Asmann, K Parikh, PL Bergsagel, H Dong… - NPJ precision …, 2021 - nature.com
With the recent FDA approval of tumor mutational burden-high (TMB-H) status as a
biomarker for treatment with a PD-1 inhibitor regardless of tumor type, accurate assessment …

[HTML][HTML] Analytic validation of NeXT Dx™, a comprehensive genomic profiling assay

JS Saldivar, J Harris, E Ayash, M Hong, P Tandon… - Oncotarget, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We describe the analytic validation of NeXT Dx, a comprehensive genomic profiling assay to
aid therapy and clinical trial selection for patients diagnosed with solid tumor cancers …

Genomic landscape of advanced solid tumors in circulating tumor DNA and correlation with tissue sequencing: a single institution's experience

L Gerratana, M Movarek, F Wehbe, N Katam… - JCO Precision …, 2022 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) has emerged as a promising noninvasive
biomarker for baseline characterization and longitudinal monitoring of a tumor throughout …