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SUBMITTER: Mouw KW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5659200 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mouw Kent W KW Goldberg Michael S MS Konstantinopoulos Panagiotis A PA D'Andrea Alan D AD
Cancer discovery 20170619 7
DNA-damaging agents are widely used in clinical oncology and exploit deficiencies in tumor DNA repair. Given the expanding role of immune checkpoint blockade as a therapeutic strategy, the interaction of tumor DNA damage with the immune system has recently come into focus, and it is now clear that the tumor DNA repair landscape has an important role in driving response to immune checkpoint blockade. Here, we summarize the mechanisms by which DNA damage and genomic instability have been found to ...[more]