Successful clinical translation of preclinical combinations of radiation and immunotherapy
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1359-6349/$ see front matter Copyright 2013 ECCO the European CanCer Organisation. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejcsup.2013.07.040 * Corresponding author: Address: 160 East 34th Street Room 123 New York, NY 10016, USA. Tel.: +1 212 731 5039. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (S.C. Formenti), [email protected] (S. Demaria). Silvia C. Formenti *, Sandra Demaria
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