The immune contexture in human tumours: Impact on clinical outcome

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 298-306

  Fridman, Wolf Herman ^a,b   Pagès, Franck ^a,b   Saut̀s Fridman, Catherine ^a   Galon, J̀rôme ^a,b  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DES CORDELIERS   (France)

^b HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; CXCL13 CHEMOKINE; CXCL9 CHEMOKINE; FRACTALKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 16; MACROPHAGE DERIVED CHEMOKINE; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 3BETA; SECONDARY LYMPHOID TISSUE CHEMOKINE; SORAFENIB; SUNITINIB; THYMUS AND ACTIVATION REGULATED CHEMOKINE; VASCULOTROPIN A;

B LYMPHOCYTE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL INFILTRATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DENDRITIC CELL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; GRANULOCYTE; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; KIDNEY CANCER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MACROPHAGE; MAST CELL; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; SUPPRESSOR CELL; TUMOR; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; VENULE;

ANIMALS; CHEMOKINES; CYTOKINES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84858800620     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc3245     Document Type: Review

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