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. 2019 Oct;7(20):595. doi: 10.21037/atm.2019.05.58

Table 1. Selected Immunotherapy drugs in clinical practice.

Drug name Mechanism of action Clinical uses Approval year
Ipilimumab CTLA-4 Antibody Melanoma metastatic 2011
Nivolumab Check-point inhibitor Non-small cell lung cancer metastatic progressive 2015
Melanoma unresectable or metastatic 2015
Renal cell cancer advanced previously treated 2015
Small cell lung cancer, metastatic 2016
Small cell lung cancer, metastatic in combination with ipilimumab 2016
Head and neck cancer, squamous cell, recurrent or metastatic 2016
Urothelial carcinoma, locally advanced or metastatic 2017
Melanoma unresectable previously untreated, with ipilimumab combination 2017
Melanoma metastatic with brain metastasis 2018
Renal cell cancer advanced previously untreated with ipilimumab combination 2018
Pembrolizumab Anti PD1 monoclonal antibody Melanoma unresectable or metastatic 2015
Merkel cell carcinoma, recurrent or metastatic 2016
Non-small cell lung cancer, metastatic, single agent 2016
Primary mediastinal large B cell, relapsed or refractory 2017
Urothelial carcinoma, locally advanced or metastatic 2017
Non-small cell lung cancer, non-squamous, metastatic in combination 2018
Non-small cell lung cancer, squamous, metastatic in combinations 2018
Melanoma Stage III adjuvant 2018
Cervical cancer recurrent or metastatic 2018
Gastric cancer recurrent locally advanced or metastatic 2018
Hepatocellular carcinoma advanced 2018
Head and neck cancer, squamous cell, recurrent or metastatic 2018
Ibrutinib Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor Mantle cell lymphoma 2013
CLL/SLL monotherapy or in combination BR or obinutuzumab 2014
CLL/SLL with 17p deletion 2014
Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia, monotherapy or rituximab combination 2015
Marginal zone lymphoma 2017
Axicabtagene ciloleucel CAR T-cell immunotherapy Large B cell lymphoma 2017
Tisagenlecleucel CAR T-cell immunotherapy Acute lymphoblastic lymphoma-relapsed or refractory 2017
Diffuse large B cell relapsed or refractory 2017