Pembrolizumab

Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Khoja, Leila ^a   Butler, Marcus O ^a   Kang, S Peter ^b   Ebbinghaus, Scot ^b   Joshua, Anthony M ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Immune checkpoint blockade; Lung cancer; Melanoma; Pembrolizumab; Programmed death receptor 1; Programmed death receptor ligand 1

Indexed keywords

AXITINIB; CETUXIMAB; DABRAFENIB; IPILIMUMAB; NIVOLUMAB; PAZOPANIB; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2B; PEMBROLIZUMAB; PIDILIZUMAB; TALIMOGENE LAHERPAREPVEC; TRAMETINIB; TRASTUZUMAB;

AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTHRALGIA; ASTHENIA; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COLITIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; GENE MUTATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEPATITIS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOPHYSITIS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; METASTATIC MELANOMA; MORTALITY; NEPHRITIS; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; NONHUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RASH; REVIEW; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER; VITILIGO;

EID: 84998611074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20511426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40425-015-0078-9     Document Type: Review

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