The study by Rahim et al., focusing on preoperative immunotherapy, highlights the pivotal role of CD8+ T cells within lymph nodes in response to neoadjuvant immunotherapy, suggesting that preserving lymph node integrity could bolster the treatment's efficacy by activating antitumor T cells. This underlines the importance of lymph node preservation and supports the use of immunotherapy as a neoadjuvant approach in cancer treatment.
Keywords: T cell; cancer treatment; immunotherapy; lymph node; organ preservation; treatment de‐escalation.
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