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The Tale of a Double-Edged Sword Protecting the Heart from Metastatic Melanoma Tumor and its Treatment with Pembrolizumab
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Is it feasible to change the immunotherapy dose schedule for a patient in complete response?
Immunotherapy represents a novel form of therapy in many ways, and it may not need to be given continuously.
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What Role for Anti-TNFs in Addressing Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor AEs?
Source: The Center For Biosimilars, February 2020 While immune checkpoint inhibitors have shown great promise in treating cancer, they are associated with immune-related adverse events (AE), many of which can be severe. One of the most common AEs that leads to discontinuation of immune checkpoint inhibitors is immune-related enterocolitis, or inflammation of the digestive tract. […]
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Eosinophilic Fasciitis: A Rare Immune-Related Adverse Effect of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy
A report describing 4 new cases of eosinophilic fasciitis (EF) occurring in patients with metastatic melanoma or lung adenocarcinoma receiving single-agent immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy at a tertiary cancer center was published in the Oncologist.1
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