Time to Think About Human Leukocyte Antigen-Based Diagnostics in Lung Cancer?
Anastasios DimouPublished in: Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research (2023)
HLA evolutionary divergence reflects the ability to recognize diverse neoantigens as non-self, and as a biomarker is conceptually distinct from programmed cell death ligand 1 expression and tumor mutation burden. HLA based assays to predict benefit from immunotherapy in lung cancer require prospective validation.