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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 28.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Res. 2021 May 3;128(11):1780–1801. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.120.315894

Table 2:

Immune checkpoint inhibitors

Checkpoint Checkpoint inhibitor Malignancies with FDA approved use
CTLA-4 Ipilimumab (Yervoy) Melanoma (unresectable or metastatic); monotherapy, in combination with ipilimumab; adjuvant
Renal cell carcinoma (advanced or metastatic); combination with nivolumab
Microsatellite instability-high or mismatch repair deficient metastatic colorectal cancer; monotherapy or in combination with nivolumab
Hepatocellular carcinoma (in combination with ipilimumab)
PD-1 Nivolumab (Opdivo) Melanoma (unresectable or metastatic), monotherapy pr in combination with ipilimumab; adjuvant
Squamous NSCLC (metastatic)
Renal cell carcinoma (advanced)
Classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma (relapsed)
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (recurrent or metastatic)
Urothelial carcinoma (advanced or metastatic)
Microsatellite instability-high or mismatch repair deficient metastatic CRC; monotherapy or in combination with ipilimumab
Hepatocellular carcinoma (monotherapy or in combination with ipilimumab)
Renal cell carcinoma (advanced or metastatic); monotherapy or in combination with ipilimumab
Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) Melanoma (unresectable or metastatic)
NSCLC (metastatic)
Head or neck squamous cell carcinoma (recurrent or metastatic)
Classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma (refractory)
Urothelial carcinoma (locally advanced or metastatic)
Microsatellite instability-high or mismatch repair deficient solid tumors and colorectal cancer
Gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma (locally advanced or metastatic)
Cervical cancer (recurrent or metastatic)
Primary mediastinal large B cell lymphoma (refractory)
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Merkel cell carcinoma (recurrent or metastatic)
Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (advanced)
Cemiplimab (Libtayo) Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (advanced)
PD-L1 Atezolizumab (Tecentriq) Urothelial carcinoma (locally advanced or metastatic)
NSCLC (metastatic)
Small cell lung cancer (metastatic)
Avelumab (Bavencio) Merkel cell carcinoma (metastatic)
Urothelial carcinoma (locally advanced or metastatic)
Advanced renal cell carcinoma
Durvalumab (Imfinzi) Urothelial carcinoma (locally advanced or metastatic)
Unresectable stage III non-small cell lung cancer
NSCLC (unresectable)
Select examples of emerging ICI in clinical trials
LAG-3 (CD223) BMS-986016 (Relatlimab)
LAG525 (IMP701)
REGN3767
TSR033
MK-4280
TSR-033
Sym022
Clinical studies pending for advanced hematologic and solid tumors, including NSCLC (metastatic), RCC (advanced), metastatic or unresectable melanoma, microsatellite high (MSI-H) and non-MSI-H colon cancer, gastro-esophageal cancer, glioblastoma, gliosarcoma, Hodgkin’s lymphoma, DLBCL
TIM-3 BMS-986258
TSR-022 (Cobolimab)
BGB-A425
MBG453
LY3415244
Clinical studies pending for advanced cancer
VISTA CA-170 (oral PD-L1, PD-L2, VISTA checkpoint antagonist)
JNJ-61610588
Clinical studies pending for advanced cancer