TY - JOUR T1 - Immune checkpoint inhibitors: current status JF - BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care JO - BMJ Support Palliat Care DO - 10.1136/bmjspcare-2021-002954 SP - bmjspcare-2021-002954 AU - Ana Filipa Palma dos Reis AU - Ivo Hennig AU - Andrew Wilcock Y1 - 2021/06/15 UR - http://spcare.bmj.com/content/early/2021/06/15/bmjspcare-2021-002954.abstract N2 - The use of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) is growing rapidly in oncology and palliative care clinicians and other generalists will increasingly see patients who are receiving, or who have received ICI. For optimal care, it is important that clinicians have a basic understanding of the unique nature of ICI as anticancer treatments, including patterns of response, potential issues with concurrent corticosteroid use and the wide range of possible immune-related adverse effects (IrAEs). This paper, informed by a recent literature search, provides a succinct yet comprehensive overview of ICI, with a particular focus on IrAE, highlighting that some are potentially life-threatening and/or can develop a long time, sometimes years, after even a short course of an ICI. ER -