Ma W, Gilligan BM, Yuan J, Li T (2016) Current status and perspectives in translational biomarker research for PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint blockade therapy. J Hematol Oncol 9(1):47
Yang J, Chen J, Wei J, Liu X, Cho WC (2016) Immune checkpoint blockade as a potential therapeutic target in non-small cell lung cancer. Expert Opin Biol Ther 16(10):1209–1223
Sul J, Blumenthal GM, Jiang X, He K, Keegan P, Pazdur R (2016) FDA approval summary: pembrolizumab for the treatment of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer whose tumors express programmed death-ligand 1. Oncologist 21(5):643–650
Genentech (2016) First anti-PD-L1 drug approved for NSCLC. Cancer Discov 6(12):OF1
Smyth MJ, Ngiow SF, Ribas A, Teng MW (2016) Combination cancer immunotherapies tailored to the tumour microenvironment. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 13(3):143–158
Hirsch FR, McElhinny A, Stanforth D, Ranger-Moore J, Jansson M, Kulangara K et al (2016) PD-L1 Immunohistochemistry assays for lung cancer: results from phase 1 of the “Blueprint PD-L1 IHC Assay Comparison Project”. J Thorac Oncol. doi:10.1016/j.jtho.2016.11.2228
Ramalingam S, Hui R, Gandhi L, Carcereny E, Felip E, Ahn MJ et al (2016) P2.39: long-term OS for patients with advanced NSCLC enrolled in the KEYNOTE-001 study of pembrolizumab: track: immunotherapy. J Thorac Oncol 11(10S):S241–S242
Matter-Walstra K, Schwenkglenks M, Aebi S, Dedes K, Diebold J, Pietrini M et al (2016) A cost-effectiveness analysis of nivolumab versus docetaxel for advanced nonsquamous NSCLC including PD-L1 testing. J Thorac Oncol 11(11):1846–1855
Langer CJ, Gadgeel SM, Borghaei H, Papadimitrakopoulou VA, Patnaik A, Powell SF et al (2016) Carboplatin and pemetrexed with or without pembrolizumab for advanced, non-squamous non-small-cell lung cancer: a randomised, phase 2 cohort of the open-label KEYNOTE-021 study. Lancet Oncol 17(11):1497–1508
Fehrenbacher L, Spira A, Ballinger M, Kowanetz M, Vansteenkiste J, Mazieres J et al (2016) Atezolizumab versus docetaxel for patients with previously treated non-small-cell lung cancer (POPLAR): a multicentre, open-label, phase 2 randomised controlled trial. Lancet 387(10030):1837–1846
Rizvi NA, Hellmann MD, Snyder A, Kvistborg P, Makarov V, Havel JJ et al (2015) Cancer immunology. Mutational landscape determines sensitivity to PD-1 blockade in non-small cell lung cancer. Science 348(6230):124–128
Giri A, Walia SS, Gajra A (2016) Clinical trials investigating immune checkpoint inhibitors in non-small-cell lung cancer. Rev Recent Clin Trials 11(4):297–305
Chee J, Robinson BW, Holt RA, Creaney J (2016) Immunotherapy of lung malignancies—from gene sequencing to novel therapies. Chest. doi:10.1016/j.chest.2016.10.007
McGranahan N, Furness AJ, Rosenthal R, Ramskov S, Lyngaa R, Saini SK et al (2016) Clonal neoantigens elicit T cell immunoreactivity and sensitivity to immune checkpoint blockade. Science 351(6280):1463–1469
Juergens RA, Zukotynski KA, Singnurkar A, Snider DP, Valliant JF, Gulenchyn KY (2016) Imaging biomarkers in immunotherapy. Biomark. Cancer 8(suppl 2):1–13
Hettich M, Braun F, Bartholoma MD, Schirmbeck R, Niedermann G (2016) High-resolution PET imaging with therapeutic antibody-based PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint tracers. Theranostics 6(10):1629–1640
Nicolazzo C, Raimondi C, Mancini M, Caponnetto S, Gradilone A, Gandini O et al (2016) Monitoring PD-L1 positive circulating tumor cells in non-small cell lung cancer patients treated with the PD-1 inhibitor nivolumab. Sci Rep 6:31726