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Record W4412073469 · doi:10.1038/s41698-025-01025-1

Exceptional response to the ATR inhibitor, camonsertib, in a patient with ALT+ metastatic melanoma

2025· article· en· W4412073469 on OpenAlex
Natalie Y.L. Ngoi, Ian M. Silverman, Adrienne Johnson, Chenfeng Meng, Joseph D. Schonhoft, Michal Zimmermann, Danielle Ulanet, Hye‐Yeon Kim, Carolina Salguero, Christian Valladolid Brown, Jordi Rodón, Victoria Rimkunas, María Koehler, Timothy A. Yap

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Bibliographic record

Venuenpj Precision Oncology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicMelanoma and MAPK Pathways
Canadian institutionsTelesta Therapeutics (Canada)
FundersNational Cancer InstituteUniversity of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterNational Institutes of HealthU.S. Department of Defense
KeywordsMetastatic melanomaMelanomaMedicineDermatologyInternal medicineOncologyCancer research

Abstract

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A key hallmark of cancer tumorigenesis is the maintenance of telomere length, which occurs canonically through the reactivation of telomerase. Alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) is an atypical, non-canonical telomere maintenance mechanism that uses homologous recombination (HR) to maintain telomere length and is associated with replication stress and defects in genome maintenance. In preclinical models, ALT positivity (ALT+) sensitizes tumor cells to ataxia telangiectasia and Rad3-related (ATR) inhibitors. Camonsertib is a novel potent, and highly selective ATR inhibitor that is synthetic lethal with genomic alterations affecting HR and DNA damage response (DDR). Here we describe a case of confirmed clinical and molecular response to pharmacological ATR inhibition through camonsertib, in a patient with ALT+ metastatic melanoma. To our knowledge, this is the first clinical report of synthetic lethal targeting of a confirmed ALT+ tumor with an ATR inhibitor.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.813
Threshold uncertainty score0.437

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.282
Teacher spread0.272 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it