Anti-angiogenesis for cancer revisited: Is there a role for combinations with immunotherapy?

Angiogenesis

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 185-204

  Ramjiawan, Rakesh R ^a,b   Griffioen, Arjan W ^b   Duda, Dan G ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b University of Amsterdam   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antiangiogenesis; Hypoxia; Immunotherapy; Normalization; PD 1; VEGF

Indexed keywords

AFLIBERCEPT; ALPHA INTERFERON; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; AXITINIB; BEVACIZUMAB; CABOZANTINIB; CARBOPLATIN; CEDIRANIB; CISPLATIN; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; ERLOTINIB; EVEROLIMUS; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; IRINOTECAN; LENVATINIB; OLAPARIB; OXALIPLATIN; PACLITAXEL; PAZOPANIB; PEMETREXED; RAMUCIRUMAB; REGORAFENIB; SORAFENIB; SUNITINIB; TIVOZANIB; TOPOTECAN; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANDETANIB; TUMOR PROTEIN; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR; VEGFA PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANTIANGIOGENIC THERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER RESISTANCE; DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; GASTROESOPHAGEAL JUNCTION ADENOCARCINOMA; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY BREAST CANCER; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY METASTASIS; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; MELANOMA; MESOTHELIOMA; METASTATIC COLORECTAL CANCER; MONOTHERAPY; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; NONHUMAN; OVARY CANCER; OVARY CARCINOMA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS ISLET CELL TUMOR; PERITONEUM CANCER; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE CANCER; SOLID MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STROMA CELL; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE; TUMOR HYPOXIA; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE TUBE CARCINOMA; ANIMAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PROCEDURES; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANIMALS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 85016580058     PISSN: 09696970     EISSN: 15737209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10456-017-9552-y     Document Type: Review

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