Novel drug - dinutuximab for high-risk neuroblastoma
Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial tumor in children aged <5 years. Prognosis of high-risk neuroblastoma is not good even after use of aggressive chemotherapy. Newer drug anti-GD2 monoclonal antibodies, dinutuximab in combination with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor or...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Apollo Medicine |
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| Online Access: | http://www.apollomedicine.org/article.asp?issn=0976-0016;year=2018;volume=15;issue=3;spage=132;epage=134;aulast=Kushwah |
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| Summary: | Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial tumor in children aged <5 years. Prognosis of high-risk neuroblastoma is not good even after use of aggressive chemotherapy. Newer drug anti-GD2 monoclonal antibodies, dinutuximab in combination with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor or interleukin-2, have been recently approved by Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of high-risk neuroblastoma. Dinutuximab binds to the glycolipid GD2 present on neuroblastoma cells and cells of neuroectodermal origin and enhances cell lysis through antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity and complement-dependent cytotoxicity. |
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| ISSN: | 0976-0016 2213-3682 |