Some tumours have broken the machinery that displays their identity to immune cells. Those patients cannot benefit from most immunotherapy and should be routed elsewhere.
Loss of HLA heterozygosity, B2M mutation, JAK1/2 loss and antigen presentation machinery defects are recurrent mechanisms of primary and acquired checkpoint resistance, and each is detectable from sequencing of tumour and germline. Routine reporting of an antigen presentation integrity score would identify patients who should be routed to HLA-independent therapies such as antibody-drug conjugates, natural killer cell engagers or CAR products.
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