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Inducing Immunity to Human Melanoma Cells: Opening the Bag of Immunological Tricks

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Abstract

Successful immunotherapy of human cancer requires the induction of a cell-mediated immune response to weakly immunogenic tumor-associated antigens. To accomplish that aim, we have used two immunological strategies, each of which is based on well-established findings in experimental animals.

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  1. Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    David Berd

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  1. The George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C., USA

    Allan L. Goldstein

  2. University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

    Enrico Garaci

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Berd, D. (1992). Inducing Immunity to Human Melanoma Cells: Opening the Bag of Immunological Tricks. In: Goldstein, A.L., Garaci, E. (eds) Combination Therapies. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3340-5_22

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