Open AccessAllogeneic transplantation following non-myeloablative conditioning in renal carcinoma. New evidence of the immune mechanisms responsible for the activity of this form of immunotherapy and the pathogenetic role of endogenous retroviruses
Author(s) -
Camillo Porta
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
oncology reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.637
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1970-5565
pISSN - 1970-5557
DOI - 10.4081/oncol.2008.1
Subject(s) - medicine , transplantation , immunotherapy , endogeny , immune system , immunology , endogenous retrovirus , renal cell carcinoma , conditioning , oncology , biochemistry , genome , gene , chemistry , statistics , mathematics
In 2000, the influential New England Journal of Medicine published the first impressive results of the use of allogeneic stem cell transplantation following nonmyeloblative conditioning (the so-called ‘mini-allo transplant’) in the treatment of patients with advanced kidney cancer..