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. 2022 Nov 1;58(11):1572. doi: 10.3390/medicina58111572
ADA Anti-drug antibodies
ALK Anaplastic lymphoma kinase
APC Antigen-presenting cell
ATG Antithymocyte globulin
BCG Bacille Calmette–Guerin
CD Cluster of differentiation
CRC Colorectal cancer
DCs Dendritic cells
DLBCL Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
dMMR Deficient mismatch repair
DLs Dose levels
EGFR Epidermal growth-factor receptor
EMT Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition
ERK Extracellular signal-regulated kinase
ER Estrogen receptor
FDA Food and Drug Administration
FGFR Fibroblast growth-factor receptor
FOX Forkhead box protein
GIST Gastrointestinal stromal tumors
GCB Germinal center B cell
GSK GlaxoSmithKline
GLI Glioma-associated oncogene homolog
Hh Hedgehog
HNSCC Head and neck squamous-cell carcinoma
HL Hodgkin’s lymphoma
ICIs Immune-checkpoint inhibitors
IFN Interferon gamma
IL Interleukin
IRF Interferon regulatory factor
JAK Janus kinase
Kras Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene
LAG Lymphocyte-activation gene
MRI Magnetic resonance imaging
MTD Maximum tolerated dose
MCF Michigan Cancer Foundation-7
MHC Major histocompatibility complex
MET Microenvironment
MSI-H Microsatellite instability—high
MAPK Mitogen-activated protein kinase
NSCLC Non-small-cell lung cancer
NOTCH Neurogenic locus notch homolog protein 1
TNF Tumour necrosis factor
NFAT Nuclear factor of activated T cells
OS Overall survival
PDAC Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
PBMC Peripheral blood mononuclear cells
PTEN Phosphatase and tensin homolog
PKC Protein kinase C
PET Positron emission tomography
PD Programmed cell death
PD-L Programmed cell-death ligand
RAS Rat sarcoma
RCC Renal-cell carcinoma
STAT Signal transducer and activator of transcription
SMO Smoothened
TCR T-cell receptor
TIM-3 T-cell immunoglobulin and mucin-domain-containing-3
TLR Toll-like receptor
TNBC Triple-negative breast cancer
TILs Tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes
WNT Wingless-related integration site