@article{577ab3130c594c788fb1e3c5b01c9884,
title = "The association between tumor mutational burden and prognosis is dependent on treatment context",
abstract = "In multiple cancer types, high tumor mutational burden (TMB) is associated with longer survival after treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). The association of TMB with survival outside of the immunotherapy context is poorly understood. We analyzed 10,233 patients (80\% non-ICI-treated, 20\% ICI-treated) with 17 cancer types before/without ICI treatment or after ICI treatment. In non-ICI-treated patients, higher TMB (higher percentile within cancer type) was not associated with better prognosis; in fact, in many cancer types, higher TMB was associated with poorer survival, in contrast to ICI-treated patients in whom higher TMB was associated with longer survival.",
author = "Cristina Valero and Mark Lee and Douglas Hoen and Jingming Wang and Zaineb Nadeem and Neal Patel and Postow, \{Michael A.\} and Shoushtari, \{Alexander N.\} and George Plitas and Balachandran, \{Vinod P.\} and Smith, \{J. Joshua\} and Crago, \{Aimee M.\} and \{Long Roche\}, \{Kara C.\} and Kelly, \{Daniel W.\} and Samstein, \{Robert M.\} and Satshil Rana and Ian Ganly and Wong, \{Richard J.\} and Hakimi, \{A. Ari\} and Berger, \{Michael F.\} and Ahmet Zehir and Solit, \{David B.\} and Marc Ladanyi and Nadeem Riaz and Chan, \{Timothy A.\} and Seshan, \{Venkatraman E.\} and Morris, \{Luc G.T.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc.",
year = "2021",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1038/s41588-020-00752-4",
language = "English",
volume = "53",
pages = "11--15",
journal = "Nature Genetics",
issn = "1061-4036",
publisher = "Nature Research",
number = "1",
}