Paraneoplasia, cancer development and immunity: what are the connections?

Chesler, Louis · Nat Rev Cancer · 2014

editorial · Level V

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Abstract

Paraneoplasia literally means conditions adjacent to, or associated with, abnormal cancerous tissue growth. In this Comment article, I discuss what the immune-mediated paraneoplasias teach us about the immune response and cancer development.

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