Immunotherapy in cancer: A combat between tumors and the immune system; you win some, you lose some

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Madorsky Rowdo, Florencia Paula ^a   Baron, Antonela ^a   Urrutia, Mariela ^a   Mordoh, José ^a,b  

^a FUNDACIÓN INSTITUTO LELOIR   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO ALEXANDER FLEMING   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cancer immunotherapy; CTLA 4; Melanoma; Monoclonal antibodies; PD 1; Vaccines

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; CANCER ANTIBODY; CANCER VACCINE; CD28 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; DACARBAZINE; FC RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 17; IPILIMUMAB; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NIVOLUMAB; ONCOFETAL ANTIGEN; PEMBROLIZUMAB; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; TICILIMUMAB;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIBODY DEPENDENT CELLULAR CYTOTOXICITY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNIZATION; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CUTANEOUS MELANOMA; EFFECTOR CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOREGULATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE; TUMOR GROWTH;

EID: 84926626128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2015.00127     Document Type: Review

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