title: Paraneoplasia, cancer development and immunity: what are the connections?
abstract: Paraneoplasia literally means conditions adjacent to, or associated with, abnormal cancerous tissue growth. In this Comment article, I discuss what the immune-mediated paraneoplasias teach us about the immune response and cancer development.
authors.forename: Louis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chesler
mesh_terms: D018450:Disease Progression; D006801:Humans; D007109:Immunity; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy
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