Adverse effects of immune-checkpoint inhibitors: epidemiology, management and surveillance

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2019, Pages 563-580

  Martins, Filipe ^a,b   Sofiya, Latifyan ^a   Sykiotis, Gerasimos P ^a   Lamine, Faiza ^a   Maillard, Michel ^a,c   Fraga, Montserrat ^a   Shabafrouz, Keyvan ^a   Ribi, Camillo ^a   Cairoli, Anne ^a   Guex Crosier, Yan ^d   Kuntzer, Thierry ^a   Michielin, Olivier ^a   Peters, Solange ^a   Coukos, Georges ^a,e   Spertini, Francois ^a   Thompson, John A ^f,g   Obeid, Michel ^a,h  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c Crohn and Colitis Center   (Switzerland)

^d HÔPITAL OPHTALMIQUE JULES GONIN   (Switzerland)

^e LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^f USA   (United States)

^g NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ATEZOLIZUMAB; AVELUMAB; DURVALUMAB; IMMUNE CHECKPOINT INHIBITOR; IPILIMUMAB; NIVOLUMAB; PEMBROLIZUMAB; RITUXIMAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR; IMMUNOLOGICAL ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BRAIN DISEASE; COLITIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG SAFETY; ENCEPHALITIS; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EPISCLERITIS; EYE DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HEADACHE; HEART DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSITIS; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; IMMUNE RELATED ADVERSE EVENT; IMMUNOMODULATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; KINETICS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TOXICITY; LUNG DISEASE; MENINGITIS; METASTATIC MELANOMA; MORBIDITY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEPHRITIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHY; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; PANCREATITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RASH; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SARCOIDOSIS; SCREENING; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; THYROID DISEASE; THYROIDITIS; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; UVEITIS; ADVERSE EVENT; IMMUNOTHERAPY; NEOPLASM; PROCEDURES;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; DRUG-RELATED SIDE EFFECTS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 85065986843     PISSN: 17594774     EISSN: 17594782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41571-019-0218-0     Document Type: Review

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