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Innovative breakthroughs of monoclonal antibodies in tumor therapy: From “indiscriminate killing” to “precision guidance”

Yi Chen1 Jiameng Miao2* Xianbin Kong3,4*
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1 College of Integrative Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
2 Famous Traditional Chinese Medicine Hall, Tianjin Hospital of ITCWM Nankai Hospital, Tianjin, China
3 College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
4 Tianjin Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine Theory of Innovation and Application, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
Submitted: 1 April 2025 | Revised: 3 April 2025 | Accepted: 7 April 2025 | Published: 18 April 2025
© 2025 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Funding
This work was supported by the Science and Technology Development Fund of the Tianjin Education Commission for Higher Education (2024ZD005).
Conflict of interest
Xianbin Kong is the Editorial Board Member of this journal but was not in any way involved in the editorial and peer-review process conducted for this paper, directly or indirectly. Separately, other authors declared that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have influenced the work reported in this paper.
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