The where, the when, and the how of immune monitoring for cancer immunotherapies in the era of checkpoint inhibition

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1865-1874

  Hegde, Priti S ^a   Karanikas, Vaios ^b   Evers, Stefan ^b  

^a GENENTECH INC   (United States)

^b Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATEZOLIZUMAB; CANCER VACCINE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4 ANTIBODY; DENDRITIC CELL VACCINE; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR VACCINE; IPILIMUMAB; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE INHIBITOR; NIVOLUMAB; PEMBROLIZUMAB; PEPTIDE VACCINE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE INHIBITOR; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 LIGAND 1; TICILIMUMAB; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ADOPTIVE IMMUNOTHERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNIZATION; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLONAL VARIATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGICAL MONITORING; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MELANOMA; MONOTHERAPY; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; T LYMPHOCYTE; TUMOR ESCAPE; TUMOR IMMUNITY; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BIOPSY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASM; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BIOMARKERS; BIOPSY; COSTIMULATORY AND INHIBITORY T-CELL RECEPTORS; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC SURVEILLANCE; IMMUNOMODULATION; LYMPHOCYTES, TUMOR-INFILTRATING; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; RESEARCH DESIGN; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84967321420     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: 15573265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-15-1507     Document Type: Article

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