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Immune checkpoint status and exhaustion-related phenotypes of CD8+ T cells from the tumor-draining regional lymph nodes in breast cancer.
Cancer medicine - 1 Dec 2023
Yilmaz Izel, Tavukcuoglu Ece, Horzum Utku, Yilmaz Kerim Bora, Akinci Melih, Gulcelik Mehmet Ali, Oral Haluk Barbaros, Esendagli Gunes
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BACKGROUND: Functional status of T cells determines the responsiveness of cancer patients to immunotherapeutic interventions. Even though T cell-mediated immunity is inaugurated in the tumor-adjacent lymph nodes, peripheral blood has been routinely sampled for testing the immunological assays. The purpose of this study is to determine the immune checkpoint molecule expression and the exhaustion-related phenotype...
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