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 - bacainn seicphointí Tagairt Faomhadh an téarma seo mar chuid de Thionscadal Lex
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- checkpoint blockade
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- Sainmhíniú "major strategy in cancer immunotherapy which involves blocking the action of immune checkpoints, essentially taking the brakes off cancer-fighting T cells" Tagairt "COM-Terminology Coordination, based on: UCIR. 'Checkpoint Blockade' (3.5.2024)"
- Nóta Currently, the immune checkpoints that are most targeted in immunotherapy are CTLA-4 and PD-1. Two of the researchers, Drs James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo, who pioneered the study of these checkpoint blockades, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2018.