Article
Intravesical BCG in patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer induces trained immunity and decreases respiratory infections
2022-02-21
Abstract excerpt
Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is recommended as intravesical immunotherapy to reduce the risk of tumor recurrence in patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). Currently, it is unknown whether intravesical BCG application induces trained immunity. Here, we found that intravesical BCG does induce trained immunity based on an increased production of TNF and IL-1β after heterologous ex-vivo stimulati...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 97e98747-e1a0-5cb3-83e8-f537ffcb5066
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.02.21.480081
