Our expanding knowledge of the immune system has provided a basis of rationality for immunotherapy . Some non-specific immunotherapy has achieved the status of standard treatment: interferon in hairy cell leukemia and chronic myelogenous leukemia, BCG in bladder cancer, and levamisole in colon cance
A regimen of surgical adjuvant immunotherapy for cancer with interleukin 2 and lymphokine-activated killer cells
โ Scribed by Tokujiro Yano; Teruyoshi Ishida; Ichiro Yoshino; Mitsuhiro Murata; Kosei Yasumoto; Genki Kimura; Kikuo Nomoto; Keizo Sugimachi
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 670 KB
- Volume
- 3
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0921-299X
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