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Immune checkpoint blockade: a common denominator approach to cancer therapy.

ABSTRACT: The immune system recognizes and is poised to eliminate cancer but is held in check by inhibitory receptors and ligands. These immune checkpoint pathways, which normally maintain self-tolerance and limit collateral tissue damage during anti-microbial immune responses, can be co-opted by cancer to evade immune destruction. Drugs interrupting immune checkpoints, such as anti-CTLA-4, anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1, and others in early development, can unleash anti-tumor immunity and mediate durable cancer regressions. The complex biology of immune checkpoint pathways still contains many mysteries, and the full activity spectrum of checkpoint-blocking drugs, used alone or in combination, is currently the subject of intense study.

SUBMITTER: Topalian SL

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4400238 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Immune checkpoint blockade: a common denominator approach to cancer therapy.

Topalian Suzanne L SL Drake Charles G CG Pardoll Drew M DM

Cancer cell 20150406 4

The immune system recognizes and is poised to eliminate cancer but is held in check by inhibitory receptors and ligands. These immune checkpoint pathways, which normally maintain self-tolerance and limit collateral tissue damage during anti-microbial immune responses, can be co-opted by cancer to evade immune destruction. Drugs interrupting immune checkpoints, such as anti-CTLA-4, anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1, and others in early development, can unleash anti-tumor immunity and mediate durable cancer r ...[more]

PMID: 25858804

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Immune checkpoint blockade: a common denominator approach to cancer therapy.

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Immune checkpoint blockade: a common denominator approach to cancer therapy.

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