Hypomethylating agents in combination with immune checkpoint inhibitors in acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes

Leukemia

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 1094-1105

  Daver, Naval ^a   Boddu, Prajwal ^a   Garcia Manero, Guillermo ^a   Yadav, Shalini Singh ^a   Sharma, Padmanee ^a   Allison, James ^a   Kantarjian, Hagop ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATEZOLIZUMAB; AZACITIDINE; BRENTUXIMAB VEDOTIN; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; DECITABINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DURVALUMAB; INDOLEAMINE 2,3 DIOXYGENASE; IPILIMUMAB; LENALIDOMIDE; LIRILUMAB; NIVOLUMAB; PEMBROLIZUMAB; PIDILIZUMAB; POMALIDOMIDE; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 LIGAND 1; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; RITUXIMAB; TICILIMUMAB; VALPROIC ACID; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC ANTIMETABOLITE;

ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER RESISTANCE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLASSICAL HODGKIN LYMPHOMA; COLITIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DERMATITIS; DNA METHYLATION; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOMODULATION; INTERNATIONAL PROGNOSTIC SCORING SYSTEM; LEUKEMIA RELAPSE; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NEPHRITIS; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; NONHUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RASH; REVIEW; SOLID MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TUMOR ESCAPE; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; DRUG EFFECT; IMMUNOLOGY;

ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; AZACITIDINE; CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINTS; DNA METHYLATION; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES;

EID: 85042558672     PISSN: 08876924     EISSN: 14765551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41375-018-0070-8     Document Type: Review

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