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. 2012 Jul 10;22(1):7-8.
doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2012.06.009.

The future of cancer treatment: will it include immunotherapy?

Jeffrey A Bluestone  1 , Eric J Small
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The future of cancer treatment: will it include immunotherapy?

Jeffrey A Bluestone et al. Cancer Cell. .
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Negative immune regulatory pathways inhibit anti-cancer T cell responses, preventing effective immune surveillance. Two clinical trials using monoclonal antibodies that antagonize the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway recently reported regression in several tumor types. In one of these trials, efficacy was linked to the expression of the PD-L1 biomarker on tumor cells.

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