Pre-treatment tumor expression of PD-L1 has been shown to correlate with favorable clinical outcomes following PD-1 blocking therapies...
... Libera Ascierto, Tracee L. McMiller, Alan E. Berger, Ludmila Danilova, Robert A. Anders, George J. Netto, Haiying Xu, Theresa S. Pritchard, Jinshui Fan, Chris Cheadle, Leslie Cope, Charles G. Drake, Drew M. Pardoll, Janis M. Taube, and Suzanne L. Topalian, The Intratumoral Balance between Metabolic and Immunologic Gene Expression Is Associated with Antiâ??PD-1 Response in Patients with Renal Cell Carcinoma, published online in Cancer Immunology Research on 4 August 2016, doi: 10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-16-0072 http://cancerimmunolres.aacrjournals.org/content/early/2016/07/28/2326-6066.CIR-16-0072.full.pdf+html
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