Response to cancer immunotherapy may be affected by genes we carry from birth

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Response to cancer immunotherapy may be affected by genes we carry from birth

For all their importance as a breakthrough treatment, the cancer immunotherapies known as checkpoint inhibitors still only benefit a small minority of patients, perhaps 15 percent across different types of cancer. Moreover, doctors cannot accurately predict which of their patients will respond.

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