Complete Remission Following Pembrolizumab in a Woman with Mismatch Repair-Deficient Endometrial Cancer and a Germline BRCA1 Mutation.
Don S DizonDora Dias-SantagataAmy BregarLaura SullivanJennifer FilipiElizabeth DiTaviLucy MillerLeif EllisenMichael BirrerMarcela DelCarmenPublished in: The oncologist (2018)
Endometrial cancers, and in particular endometrioid carcinomas, should undergo immunohistochemical testing for mismatch repair proteins.Uterine cancers with documented mismatch repair deficiency are candidates for treatment with programmed cell death protein 1 inhibition.Genomic testing of recurrent, advanced, or metastatic tumors may be useful to determine whether patients are candidates for precision therapies.
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