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Better safe than sorry: a potential prophylactic treatment for brain metastasis

Nature Reviews Cancer
DOI: 10.1038/s41568-019-0150-8
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Benbenishty et al. find that prophylactic administration of CpG-C, a Toll-like receptor 9 agonist, significantly reduces the development of brain metastasis in preclinical mouse models via the activation of microglial cells that kill and phagocytose the tumour cells.

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Baratta, M. G. (2019, June 1). Better safe than sorry: a potential prophylactic treatment for brain metastasis. Nature Reviews Cancer. Nature Publishing Group. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41568-019-0150-8

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