Commentary Open Access
Volume 2 | Issue 4 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/cancerbiology.2.030
BCG immunotherapy: Celebrating the past and looking to the future
Niyati Lobo1,*, Ashish M. Kamat1
- 1Department of Urology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Corresponding Author
Niyati Lobo, NLobo@mdanderson.org
Received Date: August 20, 2021
Accepted Date: September 21, 2021
Lobo N, Kamat AM. BCG immunotherapy: Celebrating the past and looking to the future. J Cancer Biol 2021; 2(4): 83-85.
Copyright: © 2021 Lobo N, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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