Improving immunotherapy outcomes with anti-angiogenic treatments and vice versa

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 310-324

  Khan, Kabir A ^a   Kerbel, Robert S ^a  

^a Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPOIETIN 2; TUMOR VACCINE; VASCULOTROPIN; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; ANGPT2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; HGF PROTEIN, HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN A; VEGFA PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANTIANGIOGENIC THERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IMMUNOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; UPREGULATION; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASM; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); TRENDS;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANGIOPOIETIN-2; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 85045575210     PISSN: 17594774     EISSN: 17594782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2018.9     Document Type: Review

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