Foundation Medicine, Inc.

Genentech, Inc.

Vanderbilt University

David Fabrizio

Roman Yelensky

Philip James Stephens

Garrett Michael Frampton

James Xin Sun

Priti Hegde

Sanjeev Mariathasan

Richard Bourgon

David Shames

Gregg Fine

Doron Lipson

Geoffrey Alan Otto

Vincent A Miller

Marcin Kowanetz

Jie He

Douglas B Johnson

Daniel Lieber

Christine Marie Lovly

Jeffrey Alan Sosman

Travis Clark

Mark Kennedy

Shan Zhong

Craig Anthony Cummings

Yan Li

Sarah Margaret Shagan

Erica Beth Schleifman

Wei Zou

Caitlin F Connelly

Zachary R Chalmers

Garrett Michaell Frampton

Priti Hedge

The present invention provides therapeutic and diagnostic methods and compositions for cancer, for example, bladder cancer. The invention provides methods of treating bladder cancer, methods of determining whether a patient suffering from bladder cancer is likely to respond to treatment comprising a PD-L1 axis binding antagonist, methods of predicting responsiveness of a patient suffering from bladder cancer to treatment comprising a PD-L1 axis binding antagonist, and methods of selecting a therapy for a patient suffering from bladder cancer, based on somatic mutation levels of genes of the invention (e.g., somatic mutation levels in a tumor sample obtained from the patient).

Therapeutic and diagnostic methods for cancer

Methods and compositions for treating cancer such as melanomas are disclosed.

Methods of treating cancer

The present invention provides therapeutic, diagnostic, and prognostic methods for cancer. The invention provides methods of treating a cancer, methods of determining whether an individual having a cancer is likely to respond to a treatment including an immune checkpoint inhibitor (e.g., a PD-L1 axis binding antagonist), methods of predicting responsiveness of an individual having a cancer to a treatment including an immune checkpoint inhibitor (e.g., a PD-L1 axis binding antagonist), methods of selecting a therapy for an individual having a cancer, methods of providing a prognosis for an individual having a cancer, and methods of monitoring a response of an individual having a cancer, based on a blood tumor mutational burden (bTMB) score or a maximum somatic allele frequency (MSAF) from a sample (e.g., a whole blood sample, a plasma sample, a serum sample, or a combination thereof) from the individual.

The present invention provides therapeutic and diagnostic methods and compositions for cancer, for example, lung cancer (e.g., NSCLC), bladder cancer (e.g., UC), kidney cancer (e.g., RCC), breast cancer (e.g., TNBC), or melanoma. The invention provides methods of treating cancer (e.g., lung cancer (e.g., NSCLC), bladder cancer (e.g., UC), kidney cancer (e.g., RCC), breast cancer (e.g., TNBC), or melanoma), methods of determining whether a patient suffering from cancer (e.g., lung cancer (e.g., NSCLC), bladder cancer (e.g., UC), kidney cancer (e.g., RCC), breast cancer (e.g., TNBC), or melanoma) is likely to respond to treatment comprising a PD-L1 axis binding antagonist, methods of predicting responsiveness of a patient suffering from cancer (e.g., lung cancer (e.g., NSCLC), bladder cancer (e.g., UC), kidney cancer (e.g., RCC), breast cancer (e.g., TNBC), or melanoma) to treatment comprising a PD-L1 axis binding antagonist, and methods of selecting a therapy for a patient suffering from cancer (e.g., lung cancer (e.g., NSCLC), bladder cancer (e.g., UC), kidney cancer (e.g., RCC), breast cancer (e.g., TNBC), or melanoma), based on a tissue tumor mutational burden (tTMB) score, which reflects somatic mutation levels of genes in a tumor tissue sample obtained from the patient, alone or in combination with PD-L1 expression levels (e.g., PD-L1 expression levels in tumor or tumor-infiltrating immune cells in a tumor sample (tumor area) obtained from the patient).

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