Regresión del cáncer y autoinmunidad en pacientes después de la repoblación clonal con linfocitos antitumorales

Mark E Dudley1, John R Wunderlich, Paul F Robbins

  • 1Surgery Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20902, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|September 21, 2002
PubMed
Resumen

La terapia de células T adoptadas utilizando células tumorales reactivas condujo a la regresión del melanoma y la repoblación de células T en los pacientes. Este tratamiento contra el cáncer también causó la destrucción autoinmune de los melanocitos, mostrando un potencial terapéutico.

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