Immune checkpoint blockade as a novel immunotherapeutic strategy for renal cell carcinoma: A review of clinical trials

Discovery Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 101, 2014, Pages 341-350

  Godwin, James L ^a   Zibelman, Matthew ^a   Plimack, Elizabeth R ^a   Geynisman, Daniel M ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXITINIB; CXCL9 CHEMOKINE; EVEROLIMUS; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; IPILIMUMAB; NIVOLUMAB; PEMBROLIZUMAB; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 LIGAND 1; SUNITINIB; VASCULOTROPIN A; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; PDCD1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 RECEPTOR;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPLEMENT DEPENDENT CYTOTOXICITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; METASTASIS; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR IMMUNITY; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS;

CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CTLA-4 ANTIGEN; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH 1 RECEPTOR;

EID: 84931836710     PISSN: 15396509     EISSN: 19447930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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