Immunotherapy for Multiple Myeloma, Past, Present, and Future: Monoclonal Antibodies, Vaccines, and Cellular Therapies

Current Hematologic Malignancy Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 395-404

  Karp Leaf, Rebecca ^a   Cho, Hearn Jay ^b   Avigan, David ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allogeneic transplantation; Cellular immunotherapy; Idiotype vaccine; Monoclonal antibodies; Multiple myeloma; Vaccine therapy

Indexed keywords

AMP 514; ATEZOLIZUMAB; AVELUMAB; BORTEZOMIB; C792; CD150 ANTIGEN; DACETUZUMAB; DARATUMUMAB; DEXAMETHASONE; DURVALUMAB; ELOTUZUMAB; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6; IPH 2101; IPILIMUMAB; ISATUXIMAB; LENALIDOMIDE; LIRILUMAB; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MOR03087; NIVOLUMAB; PEMBROLIZUMAB; PIDILIZUMAB; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; SILTUXIMAB; TICILIMUMAB; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR AGONIST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VACCINE; VASCULOTROPIN;

CELL THERAPY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DENDRITIC CELL; DONOR LYMPHOCYTE INFUSION; DOWN REGULATION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DYSREGULATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SURVIVAL; VACCINATION; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; BIOLOGICAL THERAPY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CELL- AND TISSUE-BASED THERAPY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 84949530321     PISSN: 15588211     EISSN: 1558822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11899-015-0283-0     Document Type: Review

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