Cancer immunotherapy employing an innovative strategy to enhance CD4+ T cell help in the tumor microenvironment.

Chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy are widely used as cancer treatments, but the antitumor effects they produce can be enhanced when combined with immunotherapies. Chemotherapy kills tumor cells, but it also releases tumor antigen and allows the cross-presentation of the tumor antigen to trigger...

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Main Authors: Liwen Song, Ming-Chieh Yang, Jayne Knoff, T-C Wu, Chien-Fu Hung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4274108?pdf=render