Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Notch signaling and efficacy of PD-1/PD-L1 blockade in relapsed small cell lung cancer

  • Nitin Roper,
  • Moises J. Velez,
  • Alberto Chiappori,
  • Yoo Sun Kim,
  • Jun S. Wei,
  • Sivasish Sindiri,
  • Nobuyuki Takahashi,
  • Deborah Mulford,
  • Suresh Kumar,
  • Kris Ylaya,
  • Christopher Trindade,
  • Irena Manukyan,
  • Anna-Leigh Brown,
  • Jane B. Trepel,
  • Jung-Min Lee,
  • Stephen Hewitt,
  • Javed Khan,
  • Anish Thomas

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24164-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) benefits only a small subset of patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and the mechanisms driving benefit are poorly understood. Here, the authors show that elevated Notch signaling predicts clinical benefit in ICB in relapsed SCLC.