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Sarah Abou Alaiwi, MD, and Toni K. Choueiri, MD, on Checkpoint Inhibitors: Overall Survival and Polybromo-Associated Mutations

2019 ASCO Annual Meeting

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Toni K. Choueiri, MD, and Sarah Abou Alaiwi, MD, both of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discuss the association of polybromo-associated BAF-type mutations with overall survival in patients with different solid tumors treated with checkpoint inhibitors (Abstract 103).



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