Processes of - immune evasion and immune surveillance
Immunoediting - three Es
- Immunoediting - three E's
- Elimination - immune surveillance destroys transformed cells
- Equilibrium - dormancy; immune control without clearance (can last decades)
- Escape - variants that evade control emerge and become clinically apparent
- *Every clinical cancer has, by definition, already escaped* - immunotherapy attempts to restore elimination
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