Same-day chemotherapy boosts cancer vaccine responses in preclinical models

Both the clinical effects and the unpleasant side effects of chemotherapies, from hair loss to mouth sores to gastrointestinal discomfort, stem from their indiscriminate destruction of cells prone to rapid proliferation. That includes CD8+ T cells, the body's frontline soldiers against viral infections and cancer, which multiply furiously when they're activated by their target antigens.

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