Impact of renal cell carcinoma molecular subtypes on immunotherapy and targeted therapy outcomes.

Saliby et al. show that a machine learning approach can accurately classify clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) into distinct molecular subtypes using transcriptomic data. When applied to tumors biospecimens from the JAVELIN Renal 101 (JR101) trial, a benefit is observed with immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI)-based therapy across all molecular subtypes.

Cancer cell. 2024 Mar 22 [Epub ahead of print]

Renée Maria Saliby, Chris Labaki, Tejas R Jammihal, Wanling Xie, Maxine Sun, Valisha Shah, Eddy Saad, M Harry Kane, Soki Kashima, Katherine Sadak, Talal El Zarif, Deepak Poduval, Robert J Motzer, Thomas Powles, Brian I Rini, Laurence Albiges, Sumanta K Pal, Bradley A McGregor, Rana R McKay, Sabina Signoretti, Eliezer M Van Allen, Sachet A Shukla, Toni K Choueiri, David A Braun

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