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Diversity and collaboration for effective immunotherapy

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Tumors continue to escape therapies that target single signaling pathways. A recent study in mice shows that combination immunotherapy involving different arms of immune response can overcome this and cure intractable tumors.

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Figure 1: Combination therapy to launch curative immunity.

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Karolina Palucka does consulting for MedImmune and Merck, and declares grant support from Merck.

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Palucka, K., Banchereau, J. Diversity and collaboration for effective immunotherapy. Nat Med 22, 1390–1391 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.4249

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