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.

Abstract

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.

MeSH terms

  • Cancer Vaccines / therapeutic use*
  • Clinical Trials as Topic
  • Humans
  • Immunotherapy / methods*
  • Neoplasms / prevention & control
  • Neoplasms / therapy*
  • Precision Medicine / methods
  • T-Lymphocytes / immunology

Substances

  • Cancer Vaccines