A review of dendritic cell therapy for cancer: Progress and challenges

BioDrugs

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 453-468

  Mantia Smaldone, Gina M ^a   Chu, Christina S ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER VACCINE; SIPULEUCEL T;

ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER IMMUNIZATION; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CASTRATION RESISTANT PROSTATE CANCER; CELL THERAPY; DENDRITIC CELL; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MELANOMA; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; TUMOR IMMUNITY;

ANIMALS; CANCER VACCINES; DENDRITIC CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY, ADOPTIVE; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84881507207     PISSN: 11738804     EISSN: 1179190X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40259-013-0030-9     Document Type: Article

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