Prospects for combining targeted and conventional cancer therapy with immunotherapy

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 286-301

  Gotwals, Philip ^a   Cameron, Scott ^a   Cipolletta, Daniela ^a   Cremasco, Viviana ^a   Crystal, Adam ^a   Hewes, Becker ^a   Mueller, Britta ^a   Quaratino, Sonia ^a   Sabatos Peyton, Catherine ^a   Petruzzelli, Lilli ^a   Engelman, Jeffrey A ^b   Dranoff, Glenn ^a  

^a Global Discovery Chemistry Oncology Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research   (United States)

^b NOVARTIS INSTITUTES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYTOKINE; GROWTH FACTOR; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B;

APOPTOSIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHROMATIN; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; METABOLITE; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TUMOR IMMUNITY; ANIMAL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 85015975300     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc.2017.17     Document Type: Review

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