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- Title
Immunotherapy for Uterine Cervical Cancer.
- Authors
Kagabu, Masahiro; Nagasawa, Takayuki; Fukagawa, Daisuke; Tomabechi, Hidetoshi; Sato, Saiya; Shoji, Tadahiro; Baba, Tsukasa
- Abstract
Cervical cancer is a malignant neoplastic disease that is the fourth most commonly occurring cancer in women worldwide. Since the introduction of angiogenesis inhibitors, treatments for recurrent and advanced cervical cancers have improved significantly in the past five years. However, the median overall survival in advanced cervical cancer is 16.8 months, with a 5-year overall survival rate of 68% for all stages, indicating that the effects of the treatment are still unsatisfactory. The development of a new treatment method is therefore imperative. Recently, in the clinical oncology field, remarkable progress has been made in immunotherapy. Immunotherapy is already established as standard therapy in some fields and in some types of cancers, and its clinical role in all areas, including the gynecology field, will change further based on the outcomes of currently ongoing clinical trials. This manuscript summarizes the results from previous clinical trials in cervical cancer and describes the ongoing clinical trials, as well as future directions.
- Subjects
CERVICAL cancer; IMMUNOTHERAPY; NEOVASCULARIZATION inhibitors; CLINICAL trials
- Publication
Healthcare (2227-9032), 2019, Vol 7, Issue 3, p108
- ISSN
2227-9032
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/healthcare7030108