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The role of the immune response in oncogenesis

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The various ways in which an immune response to tumor-specific transplantation antigens can modify the intrinsic proliferative and infiltrative capacities of tumor cells are described.

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Work described in this paper was supported by the Public Health Research grants CA-08856 and CA-05255 from the National Institutes of Health and an appropriation from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and was done while the author was an Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow of the International Union against Cancer.

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Jeejeebhoy, H.F. The role of the immune response in oncogenesis. In Vitro 11, 166–172 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02615424

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