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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Yum S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7395767 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cell research 20200615 8
The discovery of cancer immune surveillance and immunotherapy has opened up a new era of cancer treatment. Immunotherapies modulate a patient's immune system to specifically eliminate cancer cells; thus, it is considered a very different approach from classic cancer therapies that usually induce DNA damage to cause cell death in a cell-intrinsic manner. However, recent studies have revealed that classic cancer therapies such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy also elicit antitumor immunity, which ...[more]