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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Immunol Res. 2016 Feb 29;4(5):383–389. doi: 10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-15-0123

Table 1.

Patient Demographics and Diagnostic Workup

Age
(yrs)
Sex Tumor
Type
Current
Therapy
Prior
Therapies
DIF IIF Salt Split
Skin
Analysis
Time of
Rash Onset
(from start
of Therapy)
BP Elisa Titers
(from time taken since start of
therapy)
80 Male Melanoma Anti-
PD-1
mAb
Ipilimumab + + + 24 weeks At 33.9 weeks:
BP180: 13.8*
BP230: 10.0*

At 47.0 weeks
BP180: 25.6*
BP230: 12.2*
78 Female Melanoma Anti-
PD-1
mAb
Ipilimumab + + + 17.9 weeks At 44.1 weeks:
BP180: 72*
BP230: 21.7*
85 Male NSCLC Anti-
PD-L1
mAb
Carboplatin +
Gemcitabine
+ NA NA 6.1 weeks At 55.1 weeks:
BP180: 1.1*
BP230: 0.9*

NSCLC= Non-small cell lung cancer, mAb= monoclonal antibody, NA= not applicable (not completed), DIF= direct immunofluroescence, IIF= immunofixation, BP ELISA= bullous pemphigoid enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay,

*

BP ELISA taken during steroid therapy.