Open AccessA new era of cancer immunotherapy: Converting theory to performance
Author(s) -
Rosenberg Steven A.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
ca: a cancer journal for clinicians
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 62.937
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1542-4863
pISSN - 0007-9235
DOI - 10.3322/canjclin.49.2.70
Subject(s) - immunotherapy , cancer immunotherapy , immune system , gene , computational biology , antigen , biology , immunology , medicine , cancer research , genetics
The major impact of recent scientific advances, such as the discovery of genes and gene products, has been to facilitate development of immunotherapies based on the specific stimulation of immune reactions against characterized tumor antigens.