Combination approaches with immune-checkpoint blockade in cancer therapy

Frontiers in Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue NOV, 2016, Pages

  Swart, Maarten ^a   Verbrugge, Inge ^b   Beltman, Joost B ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cancer immunotherapy; Checkpoint blockade; CTLA 4; PD 1

Indexed keywords

ATEZOLIZUMAB; CD47 ANTIGEN; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; IPILIMUMAB; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR; LIVE VACCINE; NIVOLUMAB; ONCOLYTIC VIRUS; PEPTIDE VACCINE; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MODEL; CANCER THERAPY; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL MIGRATION; COLON CARCINOMA; COLONY FORMING UNIT GM; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; FIBROSARCOMA; HUMAN; IMMUNE CHECKPOINT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MELANOMA; METASTATIC MELANOMA; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRECLINICAL STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TUMOR REGRESSION;

EID: 85006459521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2234943X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2016.00233     Document Type: Review

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