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SUBMITTER: Szyszka-Barth K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4068811 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Szyszka-Barth Katarzyna K Ramlau Katarzyna K Goździk-Spychalska Joanna J Spychalski Lukasz L Bryl Maciej M Gołda-Gocka Iwona I Kopczyńska Anna A Barinow-Wojewódzki Aleksander A Ramlau Rodryg R
Contemporary oncology (Poznan, Poland) 20140603 2
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Although treatment methods such as surgery, radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy have improved, prognosis remains unsatisfactory, and developing new therapeutic strategies is still an urgent matter. Immunotherapy is a novel therapeutic approach wherein activated immune cells can specifically kill tumour cells. Several lung cancer vaccines have demonstrated prolonged survival time in phase II and III trials, and several clinical tria ...[more]