Less yin, more yang: confronting the barriers to cancer immunotherapy.

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Published in Clin Cancer Res on September 15, 2007

Authors

Gregory Lizée1, Mayra A Cantu, Patrick Hwu

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Melanoma Medical Oncology, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. glizee@mdanderson.org

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