Review: Immune-Related Adverse Events With Use of Checkpoint Inhibitors for Immunotherapy of Cancer

Arthritis and Rheumatology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 687-699

  Suarez Almazor, Maria E ^a   Kim, Sang T ^a   Abdel Wahab, Noha ^a,b   Diab, Adi ^a  

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

^b ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; IMMUNOLOGICAL ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTHRITIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUMOR IMMUNITY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; NEOPLASM;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; CTLA-4 ANTIGEN; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 85014236890     PISSN: 23265191     EISSN: 23265205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.40043     Document Type: Review

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