Review Article

T Cells and Adoptive Immunotherapy: Recent Developments and Future Prospects in Gastrointestinal Oncology

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Scheme of adoptive autologous TILs transfer. T-infiltrating lymphocytes can be isolated from resected surgical samples and expanded in vitro for adoptive transfer after lymphodepleting chemotherapy. Most adoptive transfer therapy approaches using TILs have involved the use of IL-2 infusion following T-cell transfer in order to select tumor-specific T cells.
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