Cancer immunotherapy trials: Leading a paradigm shift in drug development

Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Emens, Leisha A ^a   Butterfield, Lisa H ^b   Hodi, F Stephen ^c   Marincola, Francesco M ^d   Kaufman, Howard L ^e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d SIDRA MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Qatar)

^e RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXALIMOGENE FILOLISBAC; CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; IPILIMUMAB; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY CD28; NIVOLUMAB; ONCOLYTIC VIRUS; PEMBROLIZUMAB; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; TALIMOGENE LAHERPAREPVEC; TGN 1412;

CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CELL THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CYTOKINE RELEASE SYNDROME; DRUG DESIGN; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL SYNAPSE; METASTATIC MELANOMA; MULTIPLE CANCER; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; NOTE; PATIENT SELECTION; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TUMOR REGRESSION; WART VIRUS;

EID: 84997604979     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20511426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40425-016-0146-9     Document Type: Note

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