Prognosis and treatment response stratification according to loss of proofreading (LOP) POLE variants

Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer | |

Background <p>Only a subset of polymerase epsilon (<i>POLE</i>) mutations is associated with hypermutant phenotype; we hypothesized that only loss-of-proofreading (LOP) <i>POLE</i> mutations are associated with favorable immunotherapy response.</p> Methods <p>This retrospective cohort study included a pan-cancer cohort of 69,223 patients from cBioPortal and a cohort of patients with 41 <i>POLE</i> mutant metastatic colorectal (CRC) treated with immunotherapy at the MD…

Topics: colorectal-cancer, immunotherapy, research