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Liquid biopsies and tumor mutational burden: the cutoff conundrum

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Assessment of tumor mutational burden through a simple blood test could help to identify which patients are most likely to benefit from immunotherapy, but optimal cutoffs are not well established.

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Fig. 1: Tumor mutational burden in blood and tissue.

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