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Immunological Backbone of Uveal Melanoma: Is There a Rationale for Immunotherapy?

No standard treatment has been established for metastatic uveal melanoma (mUM). Immunotherapy is commonly used for this disease even though UM has not been included in phase III clinical trials with checkpoint inhibitors. Unfortunately, only a minority of patients obtain a clinical benefit with immu...

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Autores principales: Rossi, Ernesto, Schinzari, Giovanni, Zizzari, Ilaria Grazia, Maiorano, Brigida Anna, Pagliara, Monica Maria, Sammarco, Maria Grazia, Fiorentino, Vincenzo, Petrone, Gianluigi, Cassano, Alessandra, Rindi, Guido, Bria, Emilio, Blasi, Maria Antonietta, Nuti, Marianna, Tortora, Giampaolo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6721347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31357439
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers11081055
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Sumario:No standard treatment has been established for metastatic uveal melanoma (mUM). Immunotherapy is commonly used for this disease even though UM has not been included in phase III clinical trials with checkpoint inhibitors. Unfortunately, only a minority of patients obtain a clinical benefit with immunotherapy. The immunological features of mUM were reviewed in order to understand if immunotherapy could still play a role for this disease.