The fourth pillar: Despite some setbacks in the clinic, immunotherapy has made notable progress toward becoming an additional therapeutic option against cancer
EMBO Rep. 2017 Nov;18(11):1889-1892.
doi: 10.15252/embr.201745172.
Epub 2017 Oct 11.
Immunotherapy based on anti‐cancer vaccines and checkpoint inhibitors of the immune system could become the fourth therapeutic approach to treat cancer. It still requires a better understanding of how and against which cancers it is most efficient.