Immune Suppression in Tumors as a Surmountable Obstacle to Clinical Efficacy of Cancer Vaccines
Human tumors are usually not spontaneously eliminated by the immune system and therapeutic vaccination of cancer patients with defined antigens is followed by tumor regressions only in a small minority of the patients. The poor vaccination effectiveness could be explained by an immunosuppressive tum...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2011-07-01
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Series: | Cancers |
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/3/3/2904/ |