Nature Communications (Jul 2021)
The T cell receptor repertoire of tumor infiltrating T cells is predictive and prognostic for cancer survival
Abstract
Precision medicine needs prognostic markers to select the patients that will benefit more from targeted therapy. Authors show here that high level of baseline T cell receptor diversity is an indicator of favourable prognosis in multiple cancer types, and monoclonal expansion of T-cells correlates with good response to immune checkpoint blockade therapy in metastatic melanoma patients.