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Yu XJ, McBride JW, Diaz CM, Walker DH. Molecular cloning and characterization of the 120-kilodalton protein gene of Ehrlichia canis and application of the recombinant 120-kilodalton protein for serodiagnosis of canine ehrlichiosis. J Clin Microbiol. 2000 Jan;38(1):369-74. doi: 10.1128/JCM.38.1.369-374.2000. PubMed PMID: 10618118; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC88726.

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Díaz-Montero CM, Feng HM, Crocquet-Valdes PA, Walker DH. Identification of protective components of two major outer membrane proteins of spotted fever group Rickettsiae. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2001 Oct;65(4):371-8. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.2001.65.371. PubMed PMID: 11693887.

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Crocquet-Valdes PA, Díaz-Montero CM, Feng HM, Li H, Barrett AD, Walker DH. Immunization with a portion of rickettsial outer membrane protein A stimulates protective immunity against spotted fever rickettsiosis. Vaccine. 2001 Dec 12;20(5-6):979-88. doi: 10.1016/s0264-410x(01)00377-2. PubMed PMID: 11738766.

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Marco RA, Díaz-Montero CM, Wygant JN, Kleinerman ES, McIntyre BW. Alpha 4 integrin increases anoikis of human osteosarcoma cells. J Cell Biochem. 2003 Apr 1;88(5):1038-47. doi: 10.1002/jcb.10465. PubMed PMID: 12616540.

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Montero AJ, Díaz-Montero CM, Malpica A, Ramirez PT, Kavanagh JJ. Langerhans cell histiocytosis of the female genital tract: a literature review. Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2003 May-Jun;13(3):381-8. doi: 10.1046/j.1525-1438.2003.13204.x. Review. PubMed PMID: 12801274.

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Li Z, Díaz-Montero CM, Valbuena G, Yu XJ, Olano JP, Feng HM, Walker DH. Identification of CD8 T-lymphocyte epitopes in OmpB of Rickettsia conorii. Infect Immun. 2003 Jul;71(7):3920-6. doi: 10.1128/IAI.71.7.3920-3926.2003. PubMed PMID: 12819078; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC161984.

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Díaz-Montero CM, McIntyre BW. Acquisition of anoikis resistance in human osteosarcoma cells. Eur J Cancer. 2003 Nov;39(16):2395-402. doi: 10.1016/s0959-8049(03)00575-6. PubMed PMID: 14556933.

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Díaz-Montero CM, McIntyre BW. Acquisition of anoikis resistance in human osteosarcoma cells does not alter sensitivity to chemotherapeutic agents. BMC Cancer. 2005 Apr 13;5:39. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-5-39. PubMed PMID: 15829011; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1090563.

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Díaz-Montero CM, Wygant JN, McIntyre BW. PI3-K/Akt-mediated anoikis resistance of human osteosarcoma cells requires Src activation. Eur J Cancer. 2006 Jul;42(10):1491-500. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2006.03.007. Epub 2006 Jun 8. PubMed PMID: 16759849.

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Montero AJ, Díaz-Montero CM, Mao L, Youssef EM, Estecio M, Shen L, Issa JP. Epigenetic inactivation of EGFR by CpG island hypermethylation in cancer. Cancer Biol Ther. 2006 Nov;5(11):1494-501. doi: 10.4161/cbt.5.11.3299. Epub 2006 Nov 19. PubMed PMID: 17369752.

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Díaz-Montero CM, El Naggar S, Al Khami A, El Naggar R, Montero AJ, Cole DJ, Salem ML. Priming of naive CD8+ T cells in the presence of IL-12 selectively enhances the survival of CD8+CD62Lhi cells and results in superior anti-tumor activity in a tolerogenic murine model. Cancer Immunol Immunother. 2008 Apr;57(4):563-72. doi: 10.1007/s00262-007-0394-0. Epub 2007 Aug 28. PubMed PMID: 17726606; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3406410.

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Diaz-Montero CM, Salem ML, Nishimura MI, Garrett-Mayer E, Cole DJ, Montero AJ. Increased circulating myeloid-derived suppressor cells correlate with clinical cancer stage, metastatic tumor burden, and doxorubicin-cyclophosphamide chemotherapy. Cancer Immunol Immunother. 2009 Jan;58(1):49-59. doi: 10.1007/s00262-008-0523-4. Epub 2008 Apr 30. PubMed PMID: 18446337; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3401888.

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Salem ML, Diaz-Montero CM, El-Naggar SA, Chen Y, Moussa O, Cole DJ. The TLR3 agonist poly(I:C) targets CD8+ T cells and augments their antigen-specific responses upon their adoptive transfer into naïve recipient mice. Vaccine. 2009 Jan 22;27(4):549-57. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2008.11.013. Epub 2008 Nov 21. PubMed PMID: 19027047; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3072892.

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Salem ML, Díaz-Montero CM, Al-Khami AA, El-Naggar SA, Naga O, Montero AJ, Khafagy A, Cole DJ. Recovery from cyclophosphamide-induced lymphopenia results in expansion of immature dendritic cells which can mediate enhanced prime-boost vaccination antitumor responses in vivo when stimulated with the TLR3 agonist poly(I:C). J Immunol. 2009 Feb 15;182(4):2030-40. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.0801829. PubMed PMID: 19201856; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3066095.

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Montero AJ, Diaz-Montero CM, Millikan RE, Liu J, Do KA, Hodges S, Jonasch E, McIntyre BW, Hwu P, Tannir N. Cytokines and angiogenic factors in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma treated with interferon-alpha: association of pretreatment serum levels with survival. Ann Oncol. 2009 Oct;20(10):1682-7. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdp054. Epub 2009 Jun 18. PubMed PMID: 19541791; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4542573.

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Salem ML, Al-Khami AA, El-Naggar SA, Díaz-Montero CM, Chen Y, Cole DJ. Cyclophosphamide induces dynamic alterations in the host microenvironments resulting in a Flt3 ligand-dependent expansion of dendritic cells. J Immunol. 2010 Feb 15;184(4):1737-47. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.0902309. Epub 2010 Jan 18. PubMed PMID: 20083664; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3066076.

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Sood AK, Armaiz-Pena GN, Halder J, Nick AM, Stone RL, Hu W, Carroll AR, Spannuth WA, Deavers MT, Allen JK, Han LY, Kamat AA, Shahzad MM, McIntyre BW, Diaz-Montero CM, Jennings NB, Lin YG, Merritt WM, DeGeest K, Vivas-Mejia PE, Lopez-Berestein G, Schaller MD, Cole SW, Lutgendorf SK. Adrenergic modulation of focal adhesion kinase protects human ovarian cancer cells from anoikis. J Clin Invest. 2010 May;120(5):1515-23. doi: 10.1172/JCI40802. Epub 2010 Apr 12. PubMed PMID: 20389021; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2860925.

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Montero AJ, Adams B, Diaz-Montero CM, Glück S. Nab-paclitaxel in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer: a comprehensive review. Expert Rev Clin Pharmacol. 2011 May;4(3):329-34. doi: 10.1586/ecp.11.7. Review. PubMed PMID: 22114779.

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Solito S, Falisi E, Diaz-Montero CM, Doni A, Pinton L, Rosato A, Francescato S, Basso G, Zanovello P, Onicescu G, Garrett-Mayer E, Montero AJ, Bronte V, Mandruzzato S. A human promyelocytic-like population is responsible for the immune suppression mediated by myeloid-derived suppressor cells. Blood. 2011 Aug 25;118(8):2254-65. doi: 10.1182/blood-2010-12-325753. Epub 2011 Jul 6. PubMed PMID: 21734236; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3709641.

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Díaz-Montero CM, Naga O, Zidan AA, Salem ML, Pallin M, Parmigiani A, Walker G, Wieder E, Komanduri K, Cole DJ, Montero AJ, Lichtenheld MG. Synergy of brief activation of CD8 T-cells in the presence of IL-12 and adoptive transfer into lymphopenic hosts promotes tumor clearance and anti-tumor memory. Am J Cancer Res. 2011 Aug 30;1(7):882-96. PubMed PMID: 21915391; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3170749.

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Montero AJ, Diaz-Montero CM, Kyriakopoulos CE, Bronte V, Mandruzzato S. Myeloid-derived suppressor cells in cancer patients: a clinical perspective. J Immunother. 2012 Feb-Mar;35(2):107-15. doi: 10.1097/CJI.0b013e318242169f. Review. PubMed PMID: 22306898.

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Montero AJ, Diaz-Montero CM, Deutsch YE, Hurley J, Koniaris LG, Rumboldt T, Yasir S, Jorda M, Garret-Mayer E, Avisar E, Slingerland J, Silva O, Welsh C, Schuhwerk K, Seo P, Pegram MD, Glück S. Phase 2 study of neoadjuvant treatment with NOV-002 in combination with doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide followed by docetaxel in patients with HER-2 negative clinical stage II-IIIc breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2012 Feb;132(1):215-23. doi: 10.1007/s10549-011-1889-0. Epub 2011 Dec 3. PubMed PMID: 22138748; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3697917.

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Diaz-Montero CM, Wang Y, Shao L, Feng W, Zidan AA, Pazoles CJ, Montero AJ, Zhou D. The glutathione disulfide mimetic NOV-002 inhibits cyclophosphamide-induced hematopoietic and immune suppression by reducing oxidative stress. Free Radic Biol Med. 2012 May 1;52(9):1560-8. doi: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2012.02.007. Epub 2012 Feb 15. PubMed PMID: 22343421; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3341494.

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Mehrotra S, Al-Khami AA, Klarquist J, Husain S, Naga O, Eby JM, Murali AK, Lyons GE, Li M, Spivey ND, Norell H, Martins da Palma T, Onicescu G, Diaz-Montero CM, Garrett-Mayer E, Cole DJ, Le Poole IC, Nishimura MI. A coreceptor-independent transgenic human TCR mediates anti-tumor and anti-self immunity in mice. J Immunol. 2012 Aug 15;189(4):1627-38. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1103271. Epub 2012 Jul 13. PubMed PMID: 22798675; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3674773.

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Diaz CM, Chiappori A, Aurisicchio L, Bagchi A, Clark J, Dubey S, Fridman A, Fabregas JC, Marshall J, Scarselli E, La Monica N, Ciliberto G, Montero AJ. Phase 1 studies of the safety and immunogenicity of electroporated HER2/CEA DNA vaccine followed by adenoviral boost immunization in patients with solid tumors. J Transl Med. 2013 Mar 8;11:62. doi: 10.1186/1479-5876-11-62. PubMed PMID: 23497415; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3599587.

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Díaz-Montero CM, Zidan AA, Pallin MF, Anagnostopoulos V, Salem ML, Wieder E, Komanduri K, Montero AJ, Lichtenheld MG. Understanding the biology of ex vivo-expanded CD8 T cells for adoptive cell therapy: role of CD62L. Immunol Res. 2013 Dec;57(1-3):23-33. doi: 10.1007/s12026-013-8456-1. PubMed PMID: 24218360; NIHMSID:NIHMS705846.

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Diaz-Montero CM, Finke J, Montero AJ. Myeloid-derived suppressor cells in cancer: therapeutic, predictive, and prognostic implications. Semin Oncol. 2014 Apr;41(2):174-84. doi: 10.1053/j.seminoncol.2014.02.003. Epub 2014 Feb 14. Review. PubMed PMID: 24787291; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4008844.

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Diaz-Montero CM, Mao FJ, Barnard J, Parker Y, Zamanian-Daryoush M, Pink JJ, Finke JH, Rini BI, Lindner DJ. MEK inhibition abrogates sunitinib resistance in a renal cell carcinoma patient-derived xenograft model. Br J Cancer. 2016 Oct 11;115(8):920-928. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2016.263. Epub 2016 Aug 25. PubMed PMID: 27560553; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5061902.

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Najjar YG, Rayman P, Jia X, Pavicic PG Jr, Rini BI, Tannenbaum C, Ko J, Haywood S, Cohen P, Hamilton T, Diaz-Montero CM, Finke J. Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cell Subset Accumulation in Renal Cell Carcinoma Parenchyma Is Associated with Intratumoral Expression of IL1β, IL8, CXCL5, and Mip-1α. Clin Cancer Res. 2017 May 1;23(9):2346-2355. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-15-1823. Epub 2016 Oct 31. PubMed PMID: 27799249; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5411325.

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Maybruck BT, Pfannenstiel LW, Diaz-Montero M, Gastman BR. Tumor-derived exosomes induce CD8(+) T cell suppressors. J Immunother Cancer. 2017 Aug 15;5(1):65. doi: 10.1186/s40425-017-0269-7. PubMed PMID: 28806909; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5556362.

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Ernstoff MS, Gandhi S, Pandey M, Puzanov I, Grivas P, Montero A, Velcheti V, Turk MJ, Diaz-Montero CM, Lewis LD, Morrison C. Challenges faced when identifying patients for combination immunotherapy. Future Oncol. 2017 Aug;13(18):1607-1618. doi: 10.2217/fon-2017-0218. Epub 2017 Aug 24. Review. PubMed PMID: 28835114.

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Ornstein MC, Diaz-Montero CM, Rayman P, Elson P, Haywood S, Finke JH, Kim JS, Pavicic PG Jr, Lamenza M, Devonshire S, Dann P, Schach K, Stephenson A, Campbell S, Emamekhoo H, Ernstoff MS, Hoimes CJ, Gilligan TD, Rini BI, Garcia JA, Grivas P. Myeloid-derived suppressors cells (MDSC) correlate with clinicopathologic factors and pathologic complete response (pCR) in patients with urothelial carcinoma (UC) undergoing cystectomy. Urol Oncol. 2018 Sep;36(9):405-412. doi: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2018.02.018. Epub 2018 Mar 30. Review. PubMed PMID: 29606341.

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Zahoor H, Pavicic PG Jr, Przybycin C, Ko J, Stephens L, Radivoyevitch T, Jia X, Diaz-Montero CM, Finke J, Rayman PA, Gilligan TD, Grivas P, Ornstein M, Garcia JA, Rini BI. Evaluation of T cell infiltration in matched biopsy and nephrectomy samples in renal cell carcinoma. Medicine (Baltimore). 2018 Sep;97(37):e12344. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000012344. PubMed PMID: 30212988; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6156035.

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Tzeng A, Diaz-Montero CM, Rayman PA, Kim JS, Pavicic PG Jr, Finke JH, Barata PC, Lamenza M, Devonshire S, Schach K, Emamekhoo H, Ernstoff MS, Hoimes CJ, Rini BI, Garcia JA, Gilligan TD, Ornstein MC, Grivas P. Immunological Correlates of Response to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma. Target Oncol. 2018 Oct;13(5):599-609. doi: 10.1007/s11523-018-0595-9. PubMed PMID: 30267200.

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Pfannenstiel LW, McNeilly C, Xiang C, Kang K, Diaz-Montero CM, Yu JS, Gastman BR. Combination PD-1 blockade and irradiation of brain metastasis induces an effective abscopal effect in melanoma. Oncoimmunology. 2019;8(1):e1507669. doi: 10.1080/2162402X.2018.1507669. eCollection 2019. PubMed PMID: 30546944; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6287893.

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Lin L, Rayman P, Pavicic PG Jr, Tannenbaum C, Hamilton T, Montero A, Ko J, Gastman B, Finke J, Ernstoff M, Diaz-Montero CM. Ex vivo conditioning with IL-12 protects tumor-infiltrating CD8(+) T cells from negative regulation by local IFN-γ. Cancer Immunol Immunother. 2019 Mar;68(3):395-405. doi: 10.1007/s00262-018-2280-3. Epub 2018 Dec 14. PubMed PMID: 30552459; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6428620.

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Pfannenstiel LW, Diaz-Montero CM, Tian YF, Scharpf J, Ko JS, Gastman BR. Immune-Checkpoint Blockade Opposes CD8(+) T-cell Suppression in Human and Murine Cancer. Cancer Immunol Res. 2019 Mar;7(3):510-525. doi: 10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-18-0054. Epub 2019 Feb 6. PubMed PMID: 30728151; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6476322.

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Ko JS, Gastman BR, Conic R, Tellez Diaz Trujillo A, Diaz-Montero CM, Billings SD, Tarhini A, Funchain P, Atanaskova Mesinkovska N. Decreased T-Cell Programmed Death Receptor-1 Expression in Pregnancy-Associated Melanoma. Am J Dermatopathol. 2019 Mar;41(3):180-187. doi: 10.1097/DAD.0000000000001286. PubMed PMID: 30308543.

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Kieran MW, Goumnerova L, Manley P, Chi SN, Marcus KJ, Manzanera AG, Polanco MLS, Guzik BW, Aguilar-Cordova E, Diaz-Montero CM, DiPatri AJ, Tomita T, Lulla R, Greenspan L, Aguilar LK, Goldman S. Phase I study of gene-mediated cytotoxic immunotherapy with AdV-tk as adjuvant to surgery and radiation for pediatric malignant glioma and recurrent ependymoma. Neuro Oncol. 2019 Mar 18;21(4):537-546. doi: 10.1093/neuonc/noy202. PubMed PMID: 30883662; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6422437.

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Tannenbaum CS, Rayman PA, Pavicic PG, Kim JS, Wei W, Polefko A, Wallace W, Rini BI, Morris-Stiff G, Allende DS, Hamilton T, Finke JH, Diaz-Montero CM. Mediators of Inflammation-Driven Expansion, Trafficking, and Function of Tumor-Infiltrating MDSCs. Cancer Immunol Res. 2019 Oct;7(10):1687-1699. doi: 10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-18-0578. Epub 2019 Aug 22. PubMed PMID: 31439615; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6774821.

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Roopkumar J, Swaidani S, Kim AS, Thapa B, Gervaso L, Hobbs BP, Wei W, Alban TJ, Funchain P, Kundu S, Sangwan N, Rayman P, Pavicic PG Jr, Diaz-Montero CM, Barnard J, McCrae KR, Khorana AA. Increased Incidence of Venous Thromboembolism with Cancer Immunotherapy. Med. 2021 Apr 9;2(4):423-434. doi: 10.1016/j.medj.2021.02.002. Epub 2021 Mar 12. PubMed PMID: 34036293; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8143033.

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Khorana AA, Barnard J, Wun T, Vijapurkar U, Damaraju CV, Moore KT, Wildgoose P, McCrae KR. Biomarker signatures in cancer patients with and without venous thromboembolism events: a substudy of CASSINI. Blood Adv. 2022 Feb 22;6(4):1212-1221. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2021005710. PubMed PMID: 34807979; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8864658.

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McCrae KR, Swaidani S, Diaz-Montero CM, Khorana AA. Old is new again: emergence of thromboembolic complications in cancer patients on immunotherapy. Thromb Res. 2022 May;213(Suppl 1):S51-S57. doi: 10.1016/j.thromres.2022.01.006. Epub 2022 May 26. Review. PubMed PMID: 36061419; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9435305.

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Sheng IY, Gupta S, Reddy CA, Angelini D, Funchain P, Sussman TA, Sleiman J, Ornstein MC, McCrae K, Khorana AA. Thromboembolism in Patients with Metastatic Urothelial Cancer Treated with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors. Target Oncol. 2022 Sep;17(5):563-569. doi: 10.1007/s11523-022-00905-x. Epub 2022 Aug 20. PubMed PMID: 35986816; NIHMSID:NIHMS1832555.