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The number of different types of cell therapies in development per country. (PDF 154 kb)
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Tang, J., Hubbard-Lucey, V., Pearce, L. et al. The global landscape of cancer cell therapy. Nat Rev Drug Discov 17, 465–466 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrd.2018.74
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