Abstract
An understanding of the way interferons (IFNs) can exert their anticancer effects is vital to optimal clinical use of these agents. Animal tumour models can provide this. From the data obtained from such models, it is not clear whether in any given host/tumour situation a therapeutic effect of an IFN is due to a unique combination of its regulatory effects on the tumour and the host, or whether there is one novel, as yet unidentified, mechanism by which IFNs exert anticancer activity in all situations (1,2).
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Balkwill, F.R., Ramani, P. (1987). Animal Models for Studying Antitumour and Antimetastatic Activities of Interferons. In: Smyth, J.F. (eds) Interferons in Oncology. ESO Monographs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72805-1_6
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