Abstract
To the Editor: Dermatologic toxicities are often the earliest-presenting and highest-incidence adverse events (AEs) due to targeted anticancer therapies and immunotherapies.1 Nail unit toxicities due to immunotherapy are caused by nonspecific immune activation. Targeted therapies, particularly mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway inhibitors, lead to epidermal thinning of the nailfolds and periungual tissue, increasing susceptibility to trauma and penetration by nail plate fragments. Paronychia may develop and evolve into onychocryptosis.
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