Immunotherapy Response Predicted by Liquid Biopsy

"We can help predict response to immunotherapy by measuring the number of mutations in circulating tumor DNA [ctDNA] using a simple blood test," said Yulian Khagi, MD, UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center fellow and first author. "Immunotherapy can result in serious side effects, and therefore being able to predict who will respond is important to mitigating potential risk to each patient."The team's study ("Hypermutated Circulating Tumor DNA: Correlation with Response to Checkpoint Inhibitor&