Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 4:53 AM
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2025-12-25 @ 4:53 AM
NCT ID:
NCT03984318
Brief Summary:
The prospect of effective immunotherapies for the treatment of patients with cancer is now a clinical reality thanks to the approval of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) specifically blocking immune checkpoints or ligands such as CTLA-4, PD-1 and PD-L1. However, these drugs can also induce inflammatory and/or auto-immune complications (Immune-related Adverse Events; IrAE). IrAE can affect all tissues and sometimes irreversibly. IrAE may be severe or fatal in the absence of timely and adequate care with anti-inflammatory drugs (steroids) or more specific immunosuppressants. Thus, IrAE are a new type of toxicities in oncology and represent one of the major limitations for the development of immunotherapy combination therapies. These IrAE are yet unpredictable. Indeed, the induction of immunity relies on the host's immune status and it differs from one patient to another and so far nobody has identified the underlying mechanisms responsible for irAE outbreaks.
Study:
NCT03984318
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT03984318