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Cancer Immunotherapy — The Endgame Begins

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: In 1987, an editorial accompanying a report on the use of high-dose interleukin-2 therapy for cancer asked whether the field of immunotherapy was at “the beginning of the end” or “the end of the beginning.”1 In retrospect, I would say it was at the “beginning of the beginning.” Have we made progress since then? Finn, in her review of tumor immunology in this issue of the Journal (pages 2704–2715), answers emphatically in the affirmative, and the report by Hunder et al., also in this issue (pages 2698–2703), underscores the remarkable potential of the immune system to eradicate cancer, even when . . .

Source: New England Journal of Medicine

DOI: 10.1056/nejmp0803663

Author: Louis M. Weiner

Institutions: Georgetown University Medical Center, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center

Language: English

Topic: Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers

Subfield: Oncology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Cancer Institute