Recent advances in immunotherapy in metastatic NSCLC

Frontiers in Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue NOV, 2016, Pages

  Bansal, Pranshu ^a   Osman, Diaa ^a   Gan, Gregory N ^a   Simon, George R ^b   Boumber, Yanis ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer immunotherapy; CTLA4; NSCLC; PD1; PDL1

Indexed keywords

AFATINIB; ATEZOLIZUMAB; AVELUMAB; BAVITUXIMAB; CHECKPOINT KINASE INHIBITOR; CRIZOTINIB; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; DOCETAXEL; DURVALUMAB; ERLOTINIB; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; INDOLEAMINE 2,3 DIOXYGENASE; IPILIMUMAB; KIDNEY INJURY MOLECULE 1; LAG 525; NIVOLUMAB; PEMBROLIZUMAB; PLATINUM; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; TICILIMUMAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URELUMAB;

ANTIGENICITY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION THERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; EPIGENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOTOXICITY; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MELANOMA; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; NONHUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 85006355534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2234943X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2016.00239     Document Type: Short Survey

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