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MHC heterogeneity and response of metastases to immunotherapy.
Cancer metastasis reviews - 1 Jun 2021
Algarra Ignacio, Garrido Federico, Garcia-Lora Angel M
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In recent years, immunotherapy has proven to be an effective treatment against cancer. Cytotoxic T lymphocytes perform an important role in this anti-tumor immune response, recognizing cancer cells as foreign, through the presentation of tumor antigens by MHC class I molecules. However, tumors and metastases develop escape mechanisms for evading this immunosurveillance and may lose the expression of these...
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