Improving of Antitumor Immunity and Therapeutic Efficacy of Cancer Vaccines and Adoptive Immunotherapies Using Monoclonal Antibodies
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In the past two decades, immunotherapy has become a novel therapeutic modality for cancer patients. In this therapeutic modality, the immune system of patient’s body is augmented to acquire the ability of recognition and destruction of tumor/cancer cells. Cancer immunotherapy is divided into two forms: passive immunotherapy and active immunotherapy. In passive immunotherapy monoclonal antibodies or ex vivo-proliferated/activated effector immune cells, especially T cells, are used to destroy malignant cells.
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