Pembrolizumab in Advanced Gastrointestinal Malignancies with Defective DNA Mismatch Repair: A Case Series
Background: Tumors with deficient mismatch repair (dMMR) have a favorable immunological phenotype permitting exploitation by immunotherapies. We aimed to assess our institutional experience of dMMR advanced gastrointestinal (GI) cancers treated with the PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab. Materials and Me...
Main Authors: | David D Stenehjem, Courtney C Cavalieri, Eric Swanson, Benjamin Solomon, Jonathan Whisenant, Dao Tran, John Weis, G Weldon Gilcrease, Sunil Sharma, Ignacio Garrido-Laguna |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Innovative Healthcare Institute
2018-07-01
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Series: | Journal of Immunotherapy and Precision Oncology |
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Online Access: | https://jipo.org/doi/pdf/10.4103/JIPO.JIPO_5_1 |
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