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Cancer immunotherapy: Benefit and harm?
In this article, evidence is reviewed suggesting that the outcome of cancer immunotherapy depends on pre-treatment immune parameters of a patient. The results described in the article show that immunotherapy may prolong survival in certain subgroups of cancer patients, while in other subgroups a can...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Landes Bioscience
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3376986/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22720253 http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/onci.1.2.18183 |
Sumario: | In this article, evidence is reviewed suggesting that the outcome of cancer immunotherapy depends on pre-treatment immune parameters of a patient. The results described in the article show that immunotherapy may prolong survival in certain subgroups of cancer patients, while in other subgroups a cancer-promoting effect of this treatment modality cannot be excluded. |
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