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Releasing the brakes to fight cancer
Author(s) -
Weigmann Katrin
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.15252/embr.201643038
Subject(s) - battle , katrin , cancer , medicine , classics , history , ancient history , physics , nuclear physics , neutrino
Even though the study of cancer immunotherapy began more than a century ago, research remained dormant until the 1980s. Since then, immunotherapy research has been so successful that scientists now believe it could become a cure against cancer.