Is immunotherapy here to stay in multiple myeloma?

Haematologica

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 423-432

  Rodríguez Otero, Paula ^a   Paiva, Bruno ^a   Engelhardt, Monika ^b   Prósper, Felipe ^a   San Miguel, Jesús F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORTEZOMIB; CARFILZOMIB; DARATUMUMAB; ELOTUZUMAB; GLUCOCORTICOID; IXAZOMIB; LENALIDOMIDE; MELPHALAN; PEMBROLIZUMAB; POMALIDOMIDE; RITUXIMAB; THALIDOMIDE; TRASTUZUMAB; CANCER VACCINE; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; ANIMAL; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; METABOLISM; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CANCER VACCINES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNOLOGIC SURVEILLANCE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; MULTIPLE MYELOMA;

EID: 85014465370     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: 15928721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2016.152504     Document Type: Review

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