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Published in: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 1/2017

Open Access 01-12-2017 | Editorial

Recent advances in cancer immunotherapy

Author: Weijing Sun

Published in: Journal of Hematology & Oncology | Issue 1/2017

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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. …
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Title
Recent advances in cancer immunotherapy
Author
Weijing Sun
Publication date
01-12-2017
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Journal of Hematology & Oncology / Issue 1/2017
Electronic ISSN: 1756-8722
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13045-017-0460-9

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