Clinical factors associated with shorter durable response, and patterns of acquired resistance to first-line pembrolizumab monotherapy in PD-L1-positive non-small-cell lung cancer patients: a retrospective multicenter study

Abstract Background Despite the wide-spread use of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in cancer chemotherapy, reports on patients developing acquired resistance (AR) to ICI therapy are scarce. Therefore, we first investigated the characteristics associated with shorter durable responses of ICI trea...

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Main Authors: Kazutaka Hosoya, Daichi Fujimoto, Takeshi Morimoto, Toru Kumagai, Akihiro Tamiya, Yoshihiko Taniguchi, Toshihide Yokoyama, Tadashi Ishida, Hirotaka Matsumoto, Katsuya Hirano, Ryota Kominami, Keisuke Tomii, Hidekazu Suzuki, Tomonori Hirashima, Satoshi Tanaka, Junji Uchida, Mitsunori Morita, Masaki Kanazu, Masahide Mori, Kenji Nagata, Ikue Fukuda, Motohiro Tamiya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-04-01
Series:BMC Cancer
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-021-08048-4