Exceptional response to the ATR inhibitor, camonsertib, in a patient with ALT+ metastatic melanoma
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
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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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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