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Adoptive T cell cancer therapy

Tumour heterogeneity and off-target toxicity are current challenges of cancer immunotherapy. Karine Dzhandzhugazyan, Per Guldberg and Alexei Kirkin discuss how epigenetic induction of tumour antigens in antigen-presenting cells may form the basis for multi-target therapies.

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Fig. 1: Current approaches to generating mono- or multi-antigen-directed immune responses for treatment of cancer.

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Dzhandzhugazyan, K.N., Guldberg, P. & Kirkin, A.F. Adoptive T cell cancer therapy. Nature Mater 17, 475–477 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-018-0094-5

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