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The fourth pillar
Author(s) -
Hunter Philip
Publication year - 2017
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.201745172
Subject(s) - pillar , commit , cancer , skepticism , cancer drugs , medicine , cancer immunotherapy , immunotherapy , political science , cancer research , engineering , computer science , philosophy , structural engineering , epistemology , database
Immunotherapy based on anti‐cancer vaccines and checkpoint inhibitors of the immune system could become the fourth therapeutic approach to treat cancer. It still requires a better understanding of how and against which cancers it is most efficient.