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The Second Meeting of the British Society for Immunology Tumour Immunology
Affinity Group (TIAG) took place at King's College (London, UK) on 17-18 Ju
ne 1997 and brought together over 100 tumour immunologists from the UK and
abroad. In contrast to previous meetings the focus of the meeting was on th
e role of adhesion in immunosurveillance and tumour dissemination, In addit
ion, recent achievements in the areas of chemokines, cytotoxic T-lymphocyte
(CTL) and natural killer (NK) cells, co-stimulation, gene and adoptive imm
unotherapy were also addressed. The purpose of this report is to outline cu
rrent trends in tumour immunology.