Pancreatic cancer ‘mismatch’ in Lynch syndrome
ObjectiveImmune therapy with the PD1 inhibitor pembrolizumab has been approved to treat unresectable/metastatic solid tumours exhibiting mismatch repair (MMR) deficiency. Lynch syndrome (LS), caused by autosomal dominant germline mutations of a MMR gene, predisposes to the development of MMR-deficie...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2019-06-01
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Series: | BMJ Open Gastroenterology |