Immune Checkpoint Inhibition and the Prevalence of Autoimmune Disorders Among Patients With Lung and Renal Cancer

Purpose: Immune checkpoint inhibition reactivates the immune response against cancer cells in multiple tissue types and has been shown to induce durable responses. However, for patients with autoimmune disorders, their conditions can worsen with this reactivation. We sought to identify, among patien...

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Main Authors: Sherif M El-Refai, Joshua D Brown, Esther P Black, Jeffery C Talbert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2017-05-01
Series:Cancer Informatics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1176935117712520