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The use of checkpoint inhibitors (e.g. pembrolizumab and ipilimumab) has been hailed as a major breakthrough in the treatment of cancer. Discuss why checkpoint inhibitors enhance anti-tumour responses and how they might be improved to be more efficacious
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Immune checkpoint therapy is a new area of research which is ranked with surgery, chemotherapy radiation to improve survival rates against cancer. The immune checkpoint drug treatments specifically target the regulatory pathways within T cells to enhance anti-tumour responses, a shift from traditio...
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