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Table 1 Summary of the FDA approved monoclonal antibodies for treatment of solid tumors

From: State of the art in anti-cancer mAbs

mAB

Name

Type

Target

FDA approveda

Trastuzumab

Herceptin®

Humanized

HER2

HER2-positive metastatic/non-metastatic breast cancer

HER2-positive metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma

Pertuzumab

Perjeta®

Humanized

HER2

HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer

HER2-positive, locally advanced, inflammatory, or early stage breast cancer

Cetuximab

Erbitux®

Chimeric

EGFR

Metastatic CRC

HNSCC

Panitumumab

Vectibix®

Human

EGFR

Metastatic CRC

Necitumumab

Portrazzaâ„¢

Human

EGFR

Metastatic squamous NSCLC

Dinutuximab

Unituxinâ„¢

Chimeric

GD2

Pediatric high risk neuroblastoma

Bevacizumab

Avastin®

Humanized

VEGF-A

Metastatic CRC

Recurrent or metastatic non-squamous NSCLC

HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer (revoked in 2011)

Metastatic renal cell carcinoma

Persistent, recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer

Glioblastoma

Recurrent epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer

Ramucirumab

Ciramza®

Human

VEGFR-2

Advanced or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma

Metastatic NSCLC

Metastatic CRC

Olaratumab

Lartruvo®

Human

PDGFR-α

Soft tissue sarcoma

Ipilimumab

Yervoy®

Human

CTLA-4

Unresectable or metastatic melanoma

Cutaneous melanoma

Nivolumab

Opdivo®

Human

PD-1

Unresectable or metastatic melanoma

Metastatic squamous NSCLC

Metastatic NSCLC

Advanced RCC

Recurrent or metastatic HNSCC

Pembrolizumab

Keytruda®

Humanized

PD-1

Unresectable or metastatic melanoma

Metastatic NSCLC

Recurrent or metastatic HNSCC

Atezolizumab

Tecentriqâ„¢

Humanized

PD-L1

Locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma

Metastatic NSCLC

Ado-trastuzumab emtansineb

Kadcyla®

Humanized

HER2

HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer

Denosumab

Xgeva®

Human

RANKL

Bone metastases from solid tumors

  1. CRC colorectal cancer, HNSCC head & neck squamous cell carcinoma, NSCLC non-small cell lung cancer, RCC renal cell carcinoma
  2. aSee the text for further details
  3. bTrastuzumab covalently linked to emtansine (DM1)