Circulating and Intratumoral Immune Determinants of Response to Atezolizumab plus Bevacizumab in Patients with Variant Histology or Sarcomatoid Renal Cell Carcinoma
Saliby R, Zarif T, Bakouny Z, Shah V, Xie W, Flippot R, Denize T, Kane M, Madsen K, Ficial M, Hirsch L, Wei X, Steinharter J, Harshman L, Vaishampayan U, Severgnini M, McDermott D, Lee G, Xu W, Van Allen E, McGregor B, Signoretti S, Choueiri T, McKay R, Braun D. Circulating and Intratumoral Immune Determinants of Response to Atezolizumab plus Bevacizumab in Patients with Variant Histology or Sarcomatoid Renal Cell Carcinoma. Cancer Immunology Research 2023, 11: 1114-1124. PMID: 37279009, PMCID: PMC10526700, DOI: 10.1158/2326-6066.cir-22-0996.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRenal cell carcinomaT cellsWorse PFSImmunotherapy responseCell carcinomaPeripheral immune cell populationsWorse progression-free survivalSarcomatoid renal cell carcinomaPhase II clinical trialImmunotherapy-based combinationsValue of tumourPoor-risk patientsProgression-free survivalImmune cell populationsVascular endothelial growth factorKidney cancer diagnosisEndothelial growth factorFuture biomarker studiesLack of responseInflammatory modulesExhausted CD8Variant histologyOverall survivalPD-L1Sarcomatoid differentiation