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ASO Author Reflections: Immunotherapy for Solid Tumors: A Review

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  1. Division of Cancer Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Toan Pham MBBS, BMedSc, PGDipSurgAnat, FRACS, Sara Roth BSc, MSc, PhD, Robert Ramsay BSc (Hons), PhD & Alexander Heriot MB, BChir, MA, MD, MBA, FRACS, FRCS (Gen.), FRCSEd, FACS, GAICD

  2. Division of Cancer Surgery, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Toan Pham MBBS, BMedSc, PGDipSurgAnat, FRACS & Alexander Heriot MB, BChir, MA, MD, MBA, FRACS, FRCS (Gen.), FRCSEd, FACS, GAICD

  3. Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Toan Pham MBBS, BMedSc, PGDipSurgAnat, FRACS, Jayesh Desai MBBS, FRACP & Alexander Heriot MB, BChir, MA, MD, MBA, FRACS, FRCS (Gen.), FRCSEd, FACS, GAICD

  4. Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Toan Pham MBBS, BMedSc, PGDipSurgAnat, FRACS & Alexander Heriot MB, BChir, MA, MD, MBA, FRACS, FRCS (Gen.), FRCSEd, FACS, GAICD

  5. Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Robert Ramsay BSc (Hons), PhD

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ASO Author Reflections offer a brief invited commentary on the article, “An Update on Immunotherapy for Solid Tumors: A Review”. Ann Surg Oncol. 2018;25:3404–12.

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Pham, T., Roth, S., Desai, J. et al. ASO Author Reflections: Immunotherapy for Solid Tumors: A Review. Ann Surg Oncol 25 (Suppl 3), 974–975 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-018-6966-8

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