On being less tolerant: enhanced cancer immunosurveillance enabled by targeting checkpoints and agonists of T cell activation.

Lesokhin, Alexander M; Callahan, Margaret K; Postow, Michael A; Wolchok, Jedd D · Sci Transl Med · 2015

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Abstract

The recent approvals of two drugs that block the function of the immune checkpoint programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) have firmly planted tumor immunotherapy in the mainstream of clinical oncology. We provide a historical and immunologic context for these recent advances and discuss translational studies that provide insight into the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy at the individual patient level.

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