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C Tilden Hagan1, Yusra B Medik2, Andrew Z Wang2

  • 1Laboratory of Nano- and Translational Medicine, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Carolina Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, Carolina Institute of Nanomedicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States; Department of Radiation Oncology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States; UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.

Advances in Cancer Research
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PubMed

Keywords:
Cancer immunotherapyImmune resistanceNanoparticlesNanotechnologyTumor microenvironment

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