Adoptive cell transfer: A clinical path to effective cancer immunotherapy

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 299-308

  Rosenberg, Steven A ^a   Restifo, Nicholas P ^a   Yang, James C ^a   Morgan, Richard A ^a   Dudley, Mark E ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIGEN; CANCER VACCINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; FLUDARABINE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 2; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; CANCER IMMUNIZATION; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CAPILLARY LEAK SYNDROME; CELL LOSS; CELL THERAPY; CELL TRANSFER; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG MEGADOSE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY CANCER; LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MELANOMA; MEMORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOLID TUMOR; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 41149097574     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc2355     Document Type: Review

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