Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

The T cell receptor repertoire of tumor infiltrating T cells is predictive and prognostic for cancer survival

  • Sara Valpione,
  • Piyushkumar A. Mundra,
  • Elena Galvani,
  • Luca G. Campana,
  • Paul Lorigan,
  • Francesco De Rosa,
  • Avinash Gupta,
  • John Weightman,
  • Sarah Mills,
  • Nathalie Dhomen,
  • Richard Marais

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24343-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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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.