C-reactive protein flare-response predicts long-term efficacy to first-line anti-PD-1-based combination therapy in metastatic renal cell carcinoma.
Niklas KlümperPhilipp SchmuckerOliver HahnBenedikt HöhAngelika MattigkSeverine BanekJoerg EllingerJulia HeinzelbeckerDanijel SikicMarkus EcksteinArne StraußFriedemann ZengerlingMichael HudecekPhilip ZeuschnerCharis KalogirouPublished in: Clinical & translational immunology (2021)
Early CRP kinetics appears to be a low-cost and easy-to-implement on-treatment biomarker to predict response to 1st-line IO combination therapy. It has potential to optimise therapy monitoring and might represent a new standard of care biomarker for immunotherapy in mRCC.