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.