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Three Es theory. This hypothesis suggests that the immune system and tumors may interact in three different stages. In the first stage, tumor cells are eliminated by the immune system. Elimination is followed by the second stage (equilibrium), where a selection process for less immunogenic tumor variants takes place until tumors are able to “escape” from immune surveillance (third stage).
