[Modern methods of immunotherapy for metastatic melanoma]

Vopr Onkol. 2016;62(5):580-587.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

Over the past five years drug therapy of disseminated melanoma took a giant step forward. In clinical practice there are several fundamentally new classes of drugs: inhibitors of the individual components of MAPK-signaling pathway and modulators of a work of immunological synapse (inhibitor of CTLA4 ipilimumab, inhibitors of PD1 nivolyumab and pem- brolizumab).Here are presented features of the mechanism of action of new immunotherapeutic agents, the review of results of their clinical use, the description of the main treatment- related adverse events. The interaction of new approaches with other methods of systemic treatment and an algorithm for per- sonalized use of these methods is regarded. Modern means of therapy allow achieving expressed and long effects giving pos- sibility in some cases to cure a patient. Rational sequential and combined use of different variants of systemic treatment for disseminated melanoma, appropriate diagnosis and treatment of treatment-related adverse events can significantly increase the length and quality of life of patients.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized / therapeutic use*
  • CTLA-4 Antigen / antagonists & inhibitors
  • CTLA-4 Antigen / immunology
  • Humans
  • Immunotherapy / methods*
  • Immunotherapy / trends
  • Ipilimumab / therapeutic use*
  • MAP Kinase Signaling System / drug effects
  • MAP Kinase Signaling System / immunology
  • Melanoma / immunology
  • Melanoma / pathology
  • Melanoma / therapy*
  • Neoplasm Metastasis
  • Nivolumab / therapeutic use*
  • Programmed Cell Death 1 Receptor / antagonists & inhibitors
  • Programmed Cell Death 1 Receptor / immunology
  • Quality of Life

Substances

  • Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized
  • CTLA-4 Antigen
  • CTLA4 protein, human
  • Ipilimumab
  • PDCD1 protein, human
  • Programmed Cell Death 1 Receptor
  • Nivolumab
  • pembrolizumab