Immunotherapy

نویسندگان

  • Anne-Marie Cleton-Jansen
  • Emilie P. Buddingh
  • Arjan C. Lankester
چکیده

The Janus-faced roles of macrophages in cancer imply both tumor-suppressive and -stimulating actions of these innate immune cells. Whereas the balance is toward tumor promotion in most epithelial cancers, we have recently shown that osteosarcoma metastasis seems to be inhibited by macrophages. Here we discuss the possible mechanism of this observation.

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دوره 1  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2012