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Metastatic Breast Cancer: TIL it is Too Late
Peter Savas1, Sherene Loi2,3
1Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
Abstract:
Paired analysis of primary and metastatic triple-negative breast cancers shows that metastatic disease is an immunodepleted state. This understanding has important implications for targeting the immune microenvironment in breast cancer, placing a greater emphasis on earlier stage disease and shaping future treatment strategies in the metastatic setting.See related article by Hutchinson et al., p. 657.
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