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NATURE REVIEWS CANCER
Volume 4, Issue 5, Pages 371-380Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrc1365
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The ability of allogeneic bone-marrow cells and peripheral-blood stem cells to cure leukaemia remains the most striking example of the ability of the human immune system to recognize and destroy tumours. However, harnessing this `graft-versus-leukaemia' effect to improve outcome for patients with advanced disease and segregating it from graft-versus-host disease have proven to be key challenges. The recent identification of molecules that are specifically expressed by leukaemic cells and that can be recognized by T cells has indicated that immunological reactivity can be targeted. This anticancer specificity of T cells should soon be routinely incorporated into allogeneic stem-cell transplant regimens to promote tumour eradication.
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