Current clinical trials testing the combination of immunotherapy with radiotherapy

Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Kang, Josephine ^a   Demaria, Sandra ^a   Formenti, Silvia ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Stich Radiation Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Abscopal effect; Antitumor immunity; CTLA 4; Immunotherapy; PD 1; PD L1; Radiotherapy; Stereotactic body radiation therapy; TGF

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; ATEZOLIZUMAB; CANCER VACCINE; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; DURVALUMAB; FRESOLIMUMAB; GALUNISERTIB; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR VACCINE; INTERLEUKIN 2; IPILIMUMAB; NIVOLUMAB; OX40 LIGAND; PEMBROLIZUMAB; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 LIGAND 1; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; RITUXIMAB; SIPULEUCEL T; TICILIMUMAB;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DENDRITIC CELL; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LIVER CANCER; MELANOMA; MUSCLE INVASIVE BLADDER CANCER; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECTUM CANCER; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; TUMOR IMMUNITY; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 84997810104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20511426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40425-016-0156-7     Document Type: Article

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