Listening to each other: Infectious disease and cancer immunology.

Sci Immunol

Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

Published: January 2017

The immune system provides defense against tumors and pathogens. Here, we propose that by elucidating the shared principles of immunity that underlie cancer and infectious disease, oncologists and microbiologists can learn from each other and achieve the deeper mechanistic understanding critical the development of therapeutic approaches.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5927821PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciimmunol.aai9339DOI Listing

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