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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Expert Opin Ther Targets. 2017 Dec 10;22(1):9–17. doi: 10.1080/14728222.2018.1413091

Table 1.

FDA approved PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors

Drug Name Type Indication
Imfinzi (durvalumab) Anti-PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitor
  • Locally advanced/metastatic bladder cancer progressing during/after platinum-based chemotherapy or within 12 months of chemotherapy

Tecentriq (atezolizumab) Anti-PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitor
  • Locally advanced/metastatic bladder cancer progressing during/after platinum-based chemotherapy or within 12 months of chemotherapy

  • For metastatic NSCLC that progressed during/after platinum-based chemotherapy; patients with EGFR or ALK mutation whose cancer is progressing while using approved therapy for the mutation

  • Initial treatment of locally advanced/metastatic bladder cancer in patients ineligible for cisplatin chemotherapy, or within 12 months of chemotherapy

Bavencio (avelumab) Anti-PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitor
  • 1st line or 2nd line therapy for metastatic Merkel-cell carcinoma

  • Locally advanced or metastatic bladder cancer that progressed during/after platinum-based chemotherapy or within 12 months of neoadjuvant/adjuvant treatment

Keytruda (pembrolizumab) Anti-PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor
  • Metastatic NSCLC expressing PD-L1 and progressing during/after platinum-based chemotherapy; for patients with EGFR or ALK mutations whose cancer is progressing while receiving therapy for the mutation

  • Initial treatment of unresectable/metastatic melanoma

  • Recurrent/metastatic head and neck squamous-cell carcinoma progressing during/after platinum-based chemotherapy

  • Initial treatment of metastatic NSCLC with PD-L1 expression and no EGFR/ALK mutation

  • Classical Hodgkin lymphoma not responding to therapy or relapsed after ≥3 therapies

  • Initial treatment of metastatic nonsquamous NSCLC, in combination with pemetrexed and carboplatin, with/without PD-L1 expression

  • Initial treatment of locally advanced/metastatic bladder cancer in patients ineligible for cisplatin-based chemotherapy

  • Locally advanced/metastatic bladder cancer progressing during/after platinum-based chemotherapy, or within 12 months of chemotherapy

  • Any unresectable/metastatic solid tumor with a certain genetic marker and disease progression after previous treatment, and for colorectal cancer progressing after fluoropyrimidine, Eloxatin (oxaliplatin), + irinotecan regimen

Opdivo (nivolumab) Anti-PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor
  • Metastatic squamous NSCLC progressing during/after platinum-based chemotherapy

  • Unresectable/metastatic melanoma without BRAFV600 mutation, in combination with Yervoy (ipilimumab)

  • Metastatic nonsquamous NSCLC progressing during/after platinum-based chemotherapy; patients with EGFR or ALK mutations whose cancer progresses while using approved therapy for the mutation

  • Advanced renal-cell carcinoma after anti-angiogenic therapy

  • Unresectable/metastatic melanoma, in combination with Yervoy, with/without BRAF mutation

  • Metastatic melanoma with a BRAFV600 mutation or melanoma that cannot be removed surgically

  • Relapsed/progressing classical Hodgkin lymphoma after autologous HSCT + Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin), or after 3 systemic therapies

  • Recurrent/metastatic squamous-cell head and neck cancer progressing during/after platinum-based therapy

  • Locally advanced/metastatic bladder cancer progressing during/after platinum-based chemotherapy, or within 12 months of chemotherapy

Column 3 indications information obtained from Clinicaltrials.gov