Unique pulmonary antigen presentation may call for an alternative approach toward lung cancer immunotherapy

Stephanie Chang1, Xue Lin, Ryuji Higashikubo

  • 1Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Alvin Siteman Cancer Center and Department of Pathology and Immunology Washington University School of Medicine.

Oncoimmunology
|June 27, 2013
PubMed

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