Remembering the forgotten child: the role of immune checkpoint inhibition in patients with human immunod eficiency virus and cancer
Abstract Patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection have a high risk of developing virally-mediated cancers. These tumors have several features that could make them vulnerable to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) including, but not limited to, increased expression of the CTLA-4 and...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2019-05-01
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Series: | Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40425-019-0618-9 |