Enhancement of T cell proliferative response against autologous cancer cells of a metasatic renal cell carcinoma patient after unexplained regression

International Journal of Urology

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1130-1132

  Kawai, Koji ^a   Saijo, Kaoru ^b   Oikawa, Takehiro ^a,b   Ohno, Tadao ^b   Akaza, Hideyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytotoxic T lymphocyte; Idiopathic regression; Renal cell carcinoma; T lymphocyte

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; UFT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOLOGY; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; T LYMPHOCYTE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CELL PROLIFERATION; HUMANS; INTERFERON-ALPHA; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 11144225484     PISSN: 09198172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2042.2004.00954.x     Document Type: Article

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