Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Dillon AB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5690372 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dillon Alexander B AB Lin Kevin K Kwong Andrew A Ortiz Susana S
AIMS public health 20150324 1
Oncologic immunotherapy involves stimulating the immune system to more effectively identify and eradicate tumor cells that have successfully adapted to survive the body's natural immune defenses. Immunotherapy has shown great promise thus far by prolonging the lives of patients with a variety of malignancies, and has added a crucial new set of tools to the oncologists' armamentarium. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of immunotherapy treatment options that are currently available a ...[more]