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Cell
November 2018
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School (HMS), Boston, MA, USA; Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA; Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, HMS, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address:
Treatment of cancer has been revolutionized by immune checkpoint blockade therapies. Despite the high rate of response in advanced melanoma, the majority of patients succumb to disease. To identify factors associated with success or failure of checkpoint therapy, we profiled transcriptomes of 16,291 individual immune cells from 48 tumor samples of melanoma patients treated with checkpoint inhibitors.
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February 2018
Department of Medical Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
: Approximately 50% of melanomas harbor BRAF mutations. Treatment with BRAF +/- MEK inhibition is associated with favorable changes in the tumor microenvironment thus providing the rationale for combining targeted agents with immunotherapy. : Patients with unresectable Stage III or IV BRAF mutant melanoma were enrolled in a single-center prospective study (n = 6).
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