Naturally circulating dendritic cells to vaccinate cancer patients

Kalijn F Bol1, Jurjen Tel, I Jolanda M de Vries

  • 1Department of Tumor Immunology; Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences; Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre; Nijmegen, The Netherlands ; Department of Medical Oncology; Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre; Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Oncoimmunology
|June 27, 2013
PubMed

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