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Dung T. Le, MD, and Axel Grothey, MD, on PD-1 Blockade in Tumors With Mismatch Repair Deficiency

2015 ASCO Annual Meeting

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Dung T. Le, MD, of Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University, and Axel Grothey, MD, of the Mayo Clinic, discuss how mismatch repair status predicts clinical benefit of immune checkpoint blockade with pembrolizumab (Abstract LBA100).



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