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2021

Breast cancer

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Understanding The Role Of Arglu1 In Interferon Signaling Activation In Breast Cancer, Phuoc Nguyen Aug 2021

Understanding The Role Of Arglu1 In Interferon Signaling Activation In Breast Cancer, Phuoc Nguyen

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In the U.S., the highest number of new cancer cases belongs to breast cancer in women, and this cancer also bears the second-highest death rate in women. Despite significant progress in breast cancer treatment that has been made in the past several decades, innovative and efficient therapies are still needed to eradicate this deadly disease. Novel cancer immunotherapy with immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) could induce long-lasting responses and improve survival in hard-to-treat malignancies. Regrettably, only a fraction of breast cancer patients respond to this highly promising strategy. To improving ICB therapy in breast cancer treatment, IFN signaling induction is a …