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SUBMITTER: Rolle CE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2786905 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rolle Cleo E CE Sengupta Sadhak S Lesniak Maciej S MS
Neurosurgery clinics of North America 20100101 1
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and lethal primary malignant brain tumor. The traditional treatments for GBM, including surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, only modestly improve patient survival. Therefore, immunotherapy has emerged as a novel therapeutic modality. Immunotherapeutic strategies exploit the immune system's ability to recognize and mount a specific response against tumor cells, but not normal cells. Current immunotherapeutic approaches for glioma can be divided i ...[more]