Genito-urinary genomics and emerging biomarkers for immunomodulatory cancer treatment

Publication date: Available online 12 October 2017
Source:Seminars in Cancer Biology
Author(s): Thomas Gevaert, Rodolfo Montironi, Antonio Lopez-Beltran, Arno Van Leenders, Yves Allory, Dirk De Ridder, Frank Claessens, Mark Kockx, Murat Akand, Steven Joniau, George Netto, Louis Libbrecht
Immunotherapy is gradually becoming a key factor in the therapeutic algorithm for patients with genito-urinary (GU) cancers at different stages of disease. Robust and reliable biomarkers are crucial for an appropriate inclusion of patients in clinical trials and for a reliable patient selection for treatments with immunomodulatory drugs. The increasing knowledge on the genomic landscape of GU cancers supports stratification of patients for targeted therapies. This review focusses on emerging biomarkers and the role of genomics in predicting clinical benefit to immunomodulatory agents in GU cancers. Based on cancer incidences and available data we restricted this overview to bladder, prostate and renal cancer.



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