Targeting the PD-1/PD-L1 Immune Checkpoint in EGFR-Mutated or ALK-Translocated Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer

Targeted Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 563-569

  Bylicki, Olivier ^a   Paleiron, Nicolas ^b   Margery, Jacques ^a   Guisier, Florian ^c   Vergnenegre, Alain ^d   Robinet, Gilles ^e   Auliac, Jean Bernard ^f   Gervais, Radj ^g   Chouaid, Christos ^h  

^a PERCY MILITARY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Military Teaching Hospital Clermont Tonnerre   (France)

^c ROUEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d LIMOGES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^e BREST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^f Francois Quesnay Hospital   (France)

^g Francois Baclesse Cancer Institute   (France)

^h CENTRE HOSPITALIER INTERCOMMUNAL DE CRÉTEIL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFATINIB; ANAPLASTIC LYMPHOMA KINASE; ATEZOLIZUMAB; AVELUMAB; CRIZOTINIB; DOCETAXEL; DURVALUMAB; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; ERLOTINIB; GEFITINIB; IPILIMUMAB; LORLATINIB; NIVOLUMAB; OSIMERTINIB; PEMBROLIZUMAB; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 LIGAND 1; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; TICILIMUMAB; CD274 PROTEIN, HUMAN; EGFR PROTEIN, HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; PDCD1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ALK GENE; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TARGETING; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EGFR GENE; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SURVIVAL TIME; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; GENETICS; LUNG TUMOR;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; B7-H1 ANTIGEN; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR;

EID: 85020544350     PISSN: 17762596     EISSN: 1776260X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11523-017-0510-9     Document Type: Article

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