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SUBMITTER: Allard B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5338647 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Allard Bertrand B Longhi Maria Serena MS Robson Simon C SC Stagg John J
Immunological reviews 20170301 1
Cancers are able to grow by subverting immune suppressive pathways, to prevent the malignant cells as being recognized as dangerous or foreign. This mechanism prevents the cancer from being eliminated by the immune system and allows disease to progress from a very early stage to a lethal state. Immunotherapies are newly developing interventions that modify the patient's immune system to fight cancer, by either directly stimulating rejection-type processes or blocking suppressive pathways. Extrac ...[more]