We have read with great interest the paper by Nakamura and colleagues [
[1]
] demonstrating that surgical damage to the lymphatic system promotes skin cancer
growth by impairing adaptive immune response.- Nakamura Y.
- Fujisawa Y.
- Okiyama N.
- Watanabe R.
- Tanaka R.
- Ishitsuka Y.
- Tahara H.
- Fujimoto M.
Surgical damage to the lymphatic system promotes tumor growth via impaired adaptive
immune response.
J. Dermatol. Sci. 2017; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdermsci.2017.12.016
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Published online: February 15, 2018
Received:
January 10,
2018
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