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SUBMITTER: Palermo A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7265713 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
European thyroid journal 20200415 3
Immune checkpoint inhibitors have been recently approved for cancer treatment. Nivolumab is a monoclonal antibody specific for programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) that modulates T-cell response. It was initially used for the treatment of malignant melanoma and then approved in other cancers, such as non-small cell lung cancer and clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC). So far, the activity of nivolumab in patients with thyroid malignancies has been reported in a single case of anaplastic thyroid can ...[more]