Same-day chemotherapy boosts cancer vaccine responses in preclinical models

Both the objective effects and the unpleasant broadside effects of chemotherapies, from hairsbreadth nonaccomplishment to rima sores to gastrointestinal discomfort, stem from their indiscriminate demolition of cells prone to accelerated proliferation. That includes CD8+ T cells, the body's frontline soldiers against viral infections and cancer, which multiply furiously erstwhile they're activated by their people antigens.