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Over the course of past few years, cancer immunotherapy has been accompanied with promising results. However, preliminary investigations with respect to immunotherapy concentrated mostly on targeting the immune checkpoints, nowadays, emerge as the most efficient strategy to raise beneficial antitumor immune responses. Programmed cell death protein 1 (PD‐1) plays an important role in subsiding immune responses and promoting self‐tolerance through suppressing the activity of T cells and promoting differentiation of regulatory T cells. PD‐1 is considered as an immune checkpoint and protects against autoimmune responses through both induction of apoptosis in antigen‐specific T cells and inhibiting apoptosis in regulatory T cells. Several clinical trials exerting PD‐1 monoclonal antibodies as well as other immune‐checkpoint blockades have had prosperous outcomes and opened new horizons in …