30 years of CIK cell therapy: recapitulating the key breakthroughs and future perspective

Abstract

Abstract Emerging evidence from the numerous clinical trials involving cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cell therapy suggests that its optimization in combination with other contemporary cancer therapies in a complementary manner (rather than as competition) will be a key to combat cancer.

Keywords

• Cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cell therapy
• Immunotherapies