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SUBMITTER: Goldberg JL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4555881 | biostudies-other | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Goldberg Jacob L JL Sondel Paul M PM
Seminars in oncology 20150603 4
Given recent technological advances and advances in our understanding of cancer, immunotherapy of cancer is being used with clear clinical benefit. The immunosuppression accompanying cancer itself, as well as with current cancer treatment with radiation or chemotherapy, impairs adaptive immune effectors to a greater extent than innate effector cells. In addition to being less suppressed, innate immune cells are capable of being enhanced via immune-stimulatory regimens. Most strategies being inve ...[more]