The anticancer immune response of anti-PD-1/PD-L1 and the genetic determinants of response to anti-PD-1/PD-L1 antibodies in cancer patients

Oncotarget

Volumn 6, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 19393-19404

  Sui, Xinbing ^a,b,c   Ma, Junhong ^e   Han, Weidong ^a,b   Wang, Xian ^a,b   Fang, Yong ^a,b   Li, Da ^a   Pan, Hongming ^a,b,c   Zhang, Li ^c,d  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Key Laboratory of Biotherapy of Zhejiang Province   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^e Nankai Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Cancer; Checkpoint inhibitor; Immunotherapy; PD 1; PD L1

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; DABRAFENIB; DACARBAZINE; DURVALUMAB; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; IPILIMUMAB; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MPDL 3280A; NIVOLUMAB; PEMBROLIZUMAB; PIDILIZUMAB; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 LIGAND 1; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 LIGAND 2; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; RITUXIMAB; TRAMETINIB; VEMURAFENIB;

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG EFFICACY; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; GENE MUTATION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY METASTASIS; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LUNG CANCER; METASTATIC MELANOMA; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; NONHUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PHARMACOGENETICS; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE; TUMOR REGRESSION; ANIMAL; GENE THERAPY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, CD274; GENETIC THERAPY; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH 1 RECEPTOR;

EID: 84939218794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.5107     Document Type: Article

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