LAG3 and cancer: In the past several decades, various inhibitory immune checkpoint molecules have been identified and studied in cancer, including programmed death-1 (PD-1), cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA-4), lymphocyte activation gene-3 (LAG-3), T-cell immunoglobulin and mucin-domain-containing protein 3 (TIM-3), and T cell immunoreceptor with Ig and ITIM domains (TIGIT).