Erschienen in:
23.02.2019 | Editorial
Cancer immunology, inflammation, and tolerance: an introduction
verfasst von:
Stefan Dirnhofer, Alfred Zippelius
Erschienen in:
Virchows Archiv
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Ausgabe 4/2019
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Excerpt
In the last decade, groundbreaking achievements have been obtained in the field of oncology. These have been fueled by the strong belief that a better knowledge of genetic or molecular mechanisms sustaining cancer growth could be key for more efficacious treatments. The results of a number of clinical trials showed that only a minority of patients benefited from targeted therapies, thus underlying that something else was missing in the scenario composed by molecular signatures, trunk and branch mutations, and conventional histopathological features to expand clinical results to most patients. …