The abscopal effect associated with a systemic anti-melanoma immune response

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 293-295

  Stamell, Emily F ^a   Wolchok, Jedd D ^b,c   Gnjatic, Sacha ^b   Lee, Nancy Y ^b   Brownell, Isaac ^b,d  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-TUMOR IMMUNE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; METASTATIC MELANOMA; NODAL METASTASIS; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY;

DERMATOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; ONCOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; TUMORS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

IPILIMUMAB; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ABSCOPAL EFFECT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOIMMUNOTHERAPY; RADIOSURGERY; SCALP; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84872202826     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.03.017     Document Type: Article

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