Immune checkpoint inhibitors: The new frontier in non-small-cell lung cancer treatment

OncoTargets and Therapy

Volumn 9, Issue , 2016, Pages 5010-5116

  El Osta, Hazem ^a   Shahid, Kamran ^a   Mills, Glenn M ^a   Peddi, Prakash ^a  

^a Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport   (United States)

Author keywords

Checkpoint inhibitors; Immunotherapy; Nivolumab; Non small cell lung cancer; Pembrolizumab; Programmed death ligand 1; Programmed death 1

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ATEZOLIZUMAB; AVELUMAB; AZACITIDINE; BEVACIZUMAB; CARBOPLATIN; CERITINIB; CISPLATIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CRIZOTINIB; DOCETAXEL; DURVALUMAB; ENTINOSTAT; ERLOTINIB; GEFITINIB; GEMCITABINE; IPILIMUMAB; NIVOLUMAB; OSIMERTINIB; PACLITAXEL; PEMBROLIZUMAB; PEMETREXED; PLACEBO; TICILIMUMAB; URELUMAB; UTOMILUMAB;

BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RESISTANCE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SELECTIVITY; DRUG SPECIFICITY; DRUG TARGETING; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LIVER TOXICITY; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; MONOTHERAPY; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; SOLID TUMOR; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 84988810639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11786930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/OTT.S111209     Document Type: Review

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