Volume 29, No 5, May 2019

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 29 Issue 5, May 2019: 341-342

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Tissue-resident memory T cells keep cancer dormant

Sarah Sharon Gabriel¹ and Axel Kallies ¹

¹Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Correspondence: Axel Kallies (axel.kallies@unimelb.edu.au)

Cancer-immune equilibrium is a state in which low numbers of cancerous cells are kept in an occult or dormant state by the immune system for long periods. A recent study by Park et al. published in Nature found that tissue-resident CD8+ memory cells actively enforce cancer dormancy of epicutaneous melanomas.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-019-0156-5

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