Regulation of cell death in cancer – possible implications for immunotherapy

Since most anticancer therapies including immunotherapy trigger programmed cell death in cancer cells, defective cell death programs can lead to treatment resistance and tumor immune escape. Therefore, evasion of programmed cell death may provide one possible explanation why cancer immunotherapy has...

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Main Author: Simone eFulda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fonc.2013.00029/full