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Chemokines: Not just leukocyte chemoattractants in the promotion of cancer

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For years chemokines have primarily been thought of as instigators of leukocyte trafficking in the immune system. Fresh data forces their role in cancer to be revisited and greatly broadened.

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Strieter, R. Chemokines: Not just leukocyte chemoattractants in the promotion of cancer. Nat Immunol 2, 285–286 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/86286

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