A Foreword from the Editor-in-Chief

摘要

Cancer is a devastating disease that suffered so many lives and families throughout of the world,and is becoming an increasing burden to our society.Thanks to the advances in both basic cancer biology and clinical diagnostic/therapeutic treatments,cancer patients’mortality has been significantly decreased in the past decades.Specifically,recent breakthrough in cancer immunology and immunotherapy has shed a bright light for cancer patients to guide them to fight the cancer via harnessing their own immune system,as some patients even with advanced diseases showed long-term remission and durable responses after immunotherapy.Although this new cancer treatment can only benefit a subset of cancer patients,it clearly suggests to us that patient’s immune cells have the capability to fight against cancer.