CTLA-4 and PD-1/PD-L1 blockade: New immunotherapeutic modalities with durable clinical benefit in melanoma patients

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 5300-5309

  Ott, Patrick A ^a   Hodi, F Stephen ^a   Robert, Caroline ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BMS 936559; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4 ANTIBODY; DACARBAZINE; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 100; IPILIMUMAB; LAMBROLIZUMAB; MDX 1105; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NIVOLUMAB; PD 1 MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PD L1 MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PLACEBO; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; TICILIMUMAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADVANCED CANCER; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG TARGETING; HUMAN; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MELANOMA; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NONHUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; TREATMENT DURATION;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, CD274; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CTLA-4 ANTIGEN; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84886443514     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: 15573265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-13-0143     Document Type: Article

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