EGFR-directed antibodies increase the risk of severe infection in cancer patients

BMC Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Altan, Mehmet ^a   Burtness, Barbara ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

EGFR; Infection; Monoclonal antibody

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ALLERGIC REACTION; AWARENESS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HYPOMAGNESEMIA; INFECTION RISK; INJECTION SITE INFECTION; INJECTION SITE RASH; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NOTE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SOLID TUMOR; IMMUNOLOGY; NEOPLASM; SEPSIS;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; SEPSIS;

EID: 84924251954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-015-0276-9     Document Type: Note

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