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SUBMITTER: Paric A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10601774 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Paric Ana A Karan-Krizanac Dragana D Saric Ivan I Vranic Semir S
Case reports in oncology 20230101 1
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third leading cause of mortality worldwide. The Food and Drug Administration recently designated pembrolizumab, an immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) against a programmed death-1 receptor, as a breakthrough drug for the treatment of patients with mCRC whose tumors have deficient mismatch-repair gene expression (as evidenced by microsatellite instability-high) and patients with solid tumors with a high tumor mutational burden with ≥10 mutations/megabase. We present a ...[more]