The Potential Role of Circulating Inflammatory Cells in Predicting the Safety, Efficacy and Immune-related Adverse Events of Immune Check-point Inhibitors: A Narrative Review
Tibera K Rugambwa
Abstract:Immune checkpoint blockade has influenced the course of cancer treatment with improved Overall Survival (OS) and durable responses in many malignancies. Despite these responses, their mechanism of action has brought different set of adverse events that are severe and life-threatening in a subset of patients. Moreover, not all patients have shown to benefit from this treatment although their tumors express U.S. Federal and Drug Administration (FDA) approved biomarkers i.e programmed cell Death Protein 1 (PD-1) … Show more
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