Immunotherapy for brain cancer: Recent progress and future promise

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 3651-3659

  Jackson, Christopher M ^a   Lim, Michael ^a   Drake, Charles G ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADXS 11 001; AIM 2 ANTIGEN; AUTOANTIGEN; BEVACIZUMAB; CRS 207; DC VAX L; DENDRITIC CELL VACCINE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 100; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; ICT 107; INTERLEUKIN 13 RECEPTOR ALPHA2; LIVE VACCINE; MELANOMA ANTIGEN 1; RECOMBINANT GAMMA INTERFERON; RECOMBINANT LIVE ATTENUATED LISTERIA VACCINE; RINDOPEPIMUT; TUMOR ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CANCER VACCINE;

CANCER IMMUNIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMBINATION IMMUNOTHERAPY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); MULTIPLE CANCER; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR IMMUNOLOGY; ANIMAL; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; GLIOMA; IMMUNOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CANCER VACCINES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNOTHERAPY;

EID: 84904391384     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: 15573265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-13-2057     Document Type: Review

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