Abstract 3376: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with higher blood tumor mutational burden (bTMB)/tissueTMB (tTMB) ratio is associated with inferior survival outcome
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DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2023-3376
Abstract: Background: High TMB is known to correlate with better response to immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) treatment in certain cancers. bTMB is now being used in place of tTMB at times due to difficulty in obtaining… read more here.
Keywords: ttmb; btmb ttmb; ttmb ratio; btmb ... See more keywords
DNA Input, sequencing depth, and maximum somatic allele frequency may affect the concordance between blood TMB and tumor TMB.
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DOI: 10.1200/jco.2019.37.15_suppl.e13163
Abstract: e13163 Background: Tumor mutation burden (TMB) is recognized as a promising biomarker for PD-1/PD-L1 blockade therapy. However, a tissue biopsy is often not available, and hence a liquid biopsy using blood can be used to… read more here.
Keywords: sequencing depth; concordance; btmb ttmb; tmb ... See more keywords