Abstract
As dendritic cells increasingly become the adjuvant of choice in new approaches to cancer immunotherapy, a degree of protocol standardization is required to aid future large-scale clinical trials.
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Many of the ideas mentioned in this manuscript originate from discussions during the Expert Meeting on Dendritic Cell Clinical Trials in Zurich and the Second Annual MMRI Symposium on 'Clinical Dendritic Cell Cancer Therapy', in Brisbane, Australia.
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Nestle, F., Banchereau, J. & Hart, D. Dendritic cells: On the move from bench to bedside. Nat Med 7, 761–765 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/89863
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