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Pathology of Lung Cancer Flashcards

1
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What is the most common cancer to cause death?

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Lung cancer

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What is the aetiology of lung cancer?

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Tobacco

Asbestos

Environmental radon

Other occupational exposure (chromates, hydrocarbons, nickel)

Air pollution and urban environment

Other radiation

Pulmonary fibrosis

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What chemicals can lead to lung cancer?

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Chromates

Hydrocarbons

Nickel

Asbestos

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4
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What percentage of lung cancer is due to smoking?

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85%

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5
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What percentage of smokers get lung cancer?

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10%

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6
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How does smoking affect the risk of getting lung cancer in males and females?

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Males are 22x more at risk and females are 12x more at risk

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What is the risk of smoking and causing lung cancer proportionate to?

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Packs per day per year

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8
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How does passive smoke increase the risk of lung cancer?

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50-100% increased risk

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9
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What percentage of non-smoking lung cancers does passive smoke cause?

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25%

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10
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What is passive smoking?

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Involuntary inhaling of smoke from other people’s cigarettes

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11
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How does stopping smoking change your risk of getting lung cancer?

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Risk slowly decreases

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12
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What does abstinence mean?

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Practice of restraining oneself from indulging in something

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13
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What percentage of males and females in the UK smoke?

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33%

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14
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What percantage of males and females in the world smoke?

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50% of men

12% of woman

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15
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What does tobacco smoke do that leads to lung cancer?

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Epithelial effects

Multi-hit theory of carcinogenesis

Host activation of pro-carcinogens

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What are the 2 main pathways of carcinogenesis in the lung?

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Squamous cell carcinoma in the central lung airways

Adenocarcinoma in the lung periphery

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17
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Where does squamous cell carcinoma occur?

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Central lung airways

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18
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Where does adenocarcinoma occur?

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Lung periphery

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19
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What happens during adenocarcinoma?

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Bronchioloalveolar epithelial stem cells transform

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20
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What happens during squamous cell carcinoma?

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Bronchial epithelial stem cells transform

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21
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What is a squamous dysplasia becoming an invasive bronchogenic carcinoma strongly linked with?

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Smoking

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22
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What are the key driver mutations for adenocarcinoma?

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KRAS (35%)

EGFR (15%

BRAF, HER2 (1-2%)

ALK rearrangements (2%)

ROS1 gene rearrangements (1%)

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23
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What mutational driver for lung cancer is smoking induced?

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KRAS

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24
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What mutations linked to adenocarcinomas has therapy been approved for targeting?

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EGFR mutation

BRAF mutation

ALK rearrangement

ROS1 rearrangement

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25
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What therpies that target mutations linked to squamous cell carcinomas has been approved?

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Very few suitable targets

Commonest alterations are inactivating mutations in tumour suppresor genes

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26
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What are some examples of tumours of the lungs>

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Benign causes of mass lesion

Carcinoid tumour

Tumours of bronchial glands

Lymphoma

Sarcoma

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27
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What is a carcinoid tumour?

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One originating in the neuroendocrine system

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28
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What are tumours originating in the neuroendocrine system called?

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Carcinoid tumours

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29
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What is the malignancy of carcinoid tumours?

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Low grade malignancy

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30
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What percentage of lung neoplasms are carcinoid tumours?

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<5%

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31
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What are examples of tumours of the bronchial glands?

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Adenoid cystic carcinoma

Mucoepidermoid carcinoma

Benign adenoma

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32
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How common are metastasis to the lung?

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Common

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33
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What are the different kinds of lung cell carcinoma?

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Squamous cell (40%)

Adenocarcinoma (41%)

Small cell carcinoma (15%)

Large cell carcinoma (4%)

34
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What percentage of lung carcinomas are squamous cells?

35
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What percentage of lung carcinomas are adenocarcinomas?

36
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What percentage of lung carcinomas are small cell carcinomas?

37
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What percentage of lung carcinomas are large cell carcinomas?

38
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What is bronchioloalveolar cell carcinoma subtype of?

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Adenocarcinoma

39
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What is bronchioloalveolar cell carcinoma also called?

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Alveolar cell carcinoma

Now called adenocarcinoma in situ

40
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What does NSCLC stand up for?

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Non-small cell carcinomas

41
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What are examples of non-small cell carcinomas (NSCLC)?

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Adenocarcinoma

Squamous cell carcinoma

Large cell carcinoma

42
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How has the prevalance of squamous, small cell and adenocarinomas changed?

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Squamous and small cell has plateued or fallen

Adenocarcinomas has risen

43
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What can be said about the years before a lung cancer diagnosis?

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Lung cancer grows clinically silent for many years

44
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When does a lung cancer clinically present in its history?

45
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What are the symptoms of lung cancer like as it progresses?

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Initially may have few if any symptoms until the disease is very advanced

46
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Generally speaking, what is symptomatic lung cancer?

47
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What local effects does lung cancer have?

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Bronchial obstruction

Pleural

Direct invasion

Lymph node metastasis

48
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What effects may lung cancer have on bronchial obstruction?

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Collapse

Endogenous lipid pneumonia

Infection/abscess

Bronchiectasis

49
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What effect may lung cancer have on the pleura?

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Inflammatory

Malignant

50
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What may lung cancer directly invade?

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Chest wall

Nerves

Mediastinum

51
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What nerves may lung cancer directly invade?

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Phrenic

L recurrent laryngeal

Brachial plexus

Cervical sympathetic

52
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What does lung cancer invading the phrenic nerve cause?

A

Diaphragmatic paralysis

53
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What does lung cancer invading the L recurrent laryngeal nerve cause?

A

Hoarse

Boving cough

54
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What does lung cancer invading the brachial plexus cause?

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Pancoast T1 damage

55
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What does lung cancer invading the cervical sympathetic nerves cause?

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Horner’s syndrome

56
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What effects can lung cancer have on lymph nodes?

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Mass effect

Lymphangitis carcinomatosa

57
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What distant effects does lung cancer have?

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Distant metastasis

Secondary to local effects

Non-metastatic effects

58
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What distant metastasis can lung cancer cause?

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Liver

Adrenals

Bone

Brain

Skin

59
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What distant effects can be secondary to local effects?

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Neural

Vascular

60
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What systems can lung cancer have non-metastatic effects on?

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Skeletal

Endocrine

Neurological

Cutaneous

Haemoatologic

Cardiovascular

Renal

62
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What are some examples of non-metastatic effects that lung cancer can have?

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Finger clubbing

Hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy (HPOA)

63
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What investigations can be done for lung cancer?

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Chest X-ray

Sputum cytology rarely used

Bronchoscopy

Trans-thoracic fine needle aspiration

Trans-thoracic core biopsy

Pleural effusion cytology and biopsy

Advanced imaging techniques

64
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What are examples of advanced imaging techniques?

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CT

MRI

PET

65
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What are examples of bronchoscopy?

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Bronchial biopsy

Bronchial brushings and washings

Endobronchial US-guided aspiration (EBUS)

66
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What are prognostic factors in lung cancer?

A

Stage of disease

Classification (type of disease)

Markers/oncogenes/gene expression profiles

Growth rate

Cell proliferation

DNA aneuploidy

Immune cell infiltration

67
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How would you describe the prognosis of lung cancer?

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Generally terrible

68
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What percentage of people with lung cancer surcive 5 years in Scotland?

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<9.8% (>15% in USA)

69
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What percentage of people with stage 1 lung cancer survive more than 5 years?

70
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What percentage of people with stage 2 lung cancer survive more than 5 years?

71
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In Scotland, what percentage of people with lung cancer get surgical treatment?

72
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What percentage of people with non-small cell carcinomas survive more than 5 years?

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10-25% (some types do badly)

73
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What percentage of people with small cell carcinoma survive more than 5 years?

74
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What is the median survival time for people with small cell carinomas?

75
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Do non-small cell or small cell carinomas have a better prognosis?

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Non-small cell carinomas

76
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What can be used after the diagnosis to select patients for therapy?

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Predictive biomarkers

77
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What has transormed practice in non-small cell carcinomas?

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Immunotherapy

78
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What does immunotherapy do?

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Target immune checkpoints such as PD1/PD-L1 in NSCLC

79
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What immune checkpoint is targeted in non-small cell carcinomas?

80
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What do immune checkpoints do?

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Control immune reactions

81
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What can tumours do to immune checkpoints?

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Adapt them to avoid immune destruction

82
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What can target immune checkpoints to help treat cancer?

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Immune checkpoint inhibitors

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