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01-12-2017 | Editorial
Recent advances in cancer immunotherapy
Author:
Weijing Sun
Published in:
Journal of Hematology & Oncology
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Issue 1/2017
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Excerpt
Laboratory and clinical investigations of immunotherapy in cancer treatment have been underway for the past several decades by attempting to stimulate, enhance, and modulate the immune system to detect and destroy cancer cells. Although immunotherapy has shown success in a wide variety of cancers previously: BCG in superficial bladder cancer, interferon-alpha in melanoma, and high-dose interleukin in renal cell carcinoma, allogeneic stem cell transplantation in hematologic malignancies, et al., the benefits are only limited to a small population of patients, and mechanisms are less clear. …