Immunotherapy and immune evasion in prostate cancer

Cancers

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 569-590

  Thakur, Archana ^a   Vaishampayan, Ulka ^a   Lum, Lawrence G ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bispecific antibody; Castrate resistant prostate cancer; Immunotherapy; Prostate cancer; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

CANCER VACCINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DENDRITIC CELL VACCINE; DNA VACCINE; DOCETAXEL; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; GEMCITABINE; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR VACCINE; IMATINIB; IPILIMUMAB; NIVOLUMAB; PLACEBO; PREDNISONE; RILIMOGENE GALVACIREPVEC; SIPULEUCEL T; SUNITINIB; TASQUINIMOD;

ADVANCED CANCER; ASTHENIA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNIZATION; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASTRATION RESISTANT PROSTATE CANCER; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CHILL; COLORECTAL CANCER; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNOMODULATION; INJECTION SITE ERYTHEMA; INJECTION SITE PRURITUS; INJECTION SITE REACTION; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAXIMUM TOLERATED DOSE; METASTASIS; METASTATIC MELANOMA; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; MYELOID DERIVED SUPPRESSOR CELL; NONHUMAN; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIOIMMUNOTHERAPY; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SUPPRESSOR CELL; SURVIVAL TIME; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREMOR; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VOMITING;

EID: 84878854375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cancers5020569     Document Type: Review

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