Myocarditis Surveillance in Patients with Advanced Melanoma on Combination Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy: The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Experience

Katherine Lee Chuy; Evangelos K Oikonomou; Michael A Postow; Margaret K Callahan; Paul B Chapman; Alexander N Shoushtari; Tomas G Neilan; Michael G Fradley; Lakshmi V Ramanathan; Jedd D Wolchok; Richard M Steingart; Dipti Gupta

doi:10.1634/theoncologist.2019-0040

Myocarditis Surveillance in Patients with Advanced Melanoma on Combination Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy: The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Experience

Oncologist. 2019 May;24(5):e196-e197. doi: 10.1634/theoncologist.2019-0040. Epub 2019 Mar 25.

Authors

Katherine Lee Chuy¹, Evangelos K Oikonomou², Michael A Postow^{1

3}, Margaret K Callahan^{1

3}, Paul B Chapman^{1

3}, Alexander N Shoushtari^{1

3}, Tomas G Neilan⁴, Michael G Fradley⁵, Lakshmi V Ramanathan⁶, Jedd D Wolchok^{1

3}, Richard M Steingart^{1

3}, Dipti Gupta^{7

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA.
² The Queen's College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
³ Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA.
⁴ Cardio-Oncology Program, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine and Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Department of Radiology and Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ Cardio-Oncology Program, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute and University of South Florida Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tampa, Florida, USA.
⁶ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA.
⁷ Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA guptad@mskcc.org.

Abstract

This letter to the editor describes myocarditis screening among patients undergoing combination immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy, in light of the consensus document from the Checkpoint Inhibitor Safety Working Group.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Aged
Humans
Immunotherapy / methods*
Melanoma / complications*
Melanoma / drug therapy*
Middle Aged
Myocarditis / diagnosis*
Myocarditis / etiology

Abstract

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MeSH terms

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