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Published on: August 1, 2013
Immunologic function of dendritic cells in esophageal cancer
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute, Jiyan Road 440, Jinan 250117, Shandong Province, PR China, sdthywf@yahoo.com.cn
Abstract:
Esophageal cancer is one of the frequently occurring malignant cancers. The current therapy, including surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or a combination, is only to palliate the symptoms; overall the prognosis is poor. The immunotherapy of dendritic cells for esophageal cancer is a valuable method. Dendritic cells existing in the esophageal tissues play an important role in the host's immunosurveillance against cancer as the professional antigen-presenting cells. This review concerns the immunology of dendritic cells in esophageal cancer; it describes the expression of DCs in the normal esophageal tissues and benign disease of esophagus, relations between the DCs and cancer development in esophageal cancer, and the DC-based approach to establish treatment for esophageal cancer.
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