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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Main Authors: Andrew E Hendifar, Brent K Larson, Rebecca Rojansky, Michelle Guan, Jun Gong, Veronica Placencio, Richard Tuli, Megan Hitchins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2019-06-01
Series:BMJ Open Gastroenterology