Lymph node resection does not impair cancer immunotherapy responses
- Resource Type
- Brief Communication
- Authors
- Baldran-Groves, Lucas; Melief, Jeroen
- Source
- Nature Reviews Immunology. 24(4):234-234
- Subject
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1474-1733
1474-1741
A preprint by Zhou et al. shows that the clinical efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade in patients with cancer does not depend on the presence of tumour-draining lymph nodes, as their role is taken over by more distant lymph nodes.