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. 2020 Apr 29;5(8):1139–1148. doi: 10.1016/j.ekir.2020.04.018

Table 1.

Food and Drug Administration–approved immune checkpoint inhibitors

Drug Target Indication
Ipilimumab CTLA-4 Melanoma, MSI-colorectal cancer, renal-cell carcinoma
Cemiplimab PD-1 Cutaneous squamous cell cancer
Nivolumab PD-1 Melanoma, non–small/small-cell lung cancer, renal-cell carcinoma, classic Hodgkin’s lymphoma, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, urothelial carcinoma, MSI-colorectal, hepatocellular carcinoma
Pembrolizumab PD-1 Melanoma, non–small-cell lung cancer, classic Hodgkin’s lymphoma, primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, urothelial carcinoma, gastric cancer, cervical cancer, solid tumors with high microsatellite instability or mismatch-repair deficiency
Atezolizumab PD-L1 Non–small-cell lung cancer, urothelial carcinoma
Avelumab PD-L1 Merkel-cell carcinoma, urothelial carcinoma
Durvalumab PD-L1 Urothelial carcinoma, non–small-cell lung cancer

CTLA-4, cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4; MSI, microsatellite instability; PD-1, programmed cell death 1; PD-L1, programmed cell death ligand 1.