Combining immunotherapy and targeted therapies in cancer treatment

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 237-251

  Vanneman, Matthew ^a   Dranoff, Glenn ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2A INTERFERON; APOPTOSIS INHIBITOR; AZD 8055; BCR ABL PROTEIN; BEVACIZUMAB; BORTEZOMIB; CD137 ANTIGEN; CETUXIMAB; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; DENDRITIC CELL VACCINE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90 INHIBITOR; IMATINIB; INTERLEUKIN 12; IPILIMUMAB; JANUS KINASE 2 INHIBITOR; LENALIDOMIDE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; PACLITAXEL; PROTEIN KINASE B INHIBITOR; SUNITINIB; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TEMSIROLIMUS; TRASTUZUMAB; VEMURAFENIB; WART VIRUS VACCINE;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL STIMULATION; CELL TRANSFER; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; DRUG EFFICACY; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MELANOMA; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CANCER VACCINES; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84858760109     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc3237     Document Type: Review

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