Recent advances in cellular immunology: implications for immunity to cancer

Basic immunologists, animal experimenters and clinicians came together earlier this year to discuss insights into, and applications of, cellular immunity to cancer. Major questions critical to the further evaluation and exploitation of the cellular immune response to cancer were explored. It was clear from this conference that there has been a move beyond phenomenology to reductionistic approaches to understanding immune events, raising hopes that the specificity of the T-cell response might be applied to the problem of human cancer.