Response to Letter to the Editor Re 'Antibiotic use is associated with worse clinical outcomes in patients with cancer treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: a systematic review and meta-analysis'

The authors regret the misclassification of the study by (Pinato et al., 2019Pinato DJ Howlett S Ottaviani D Urus H Patel A Mineo T et al.Association of prior antibiotic treatment with survival and response to immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy in patients with cancer.JAMA Oncol. 2019; 5: 1774-1778Crossref PubMed Scopus (216) Google Scholar), which studied patients who received antibiotics <1 month from ICI initiation, not >1 month from ICI...