IL2, interleukin 2, 3558

N. diseases: 950; N. variants: 5
Disease: Metastatic osteosarcoma ×
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0278512
Disease: Metastatic osteosarcoma
Metastatic osteosarcoma 		0.010 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE To improve the poor prognosis for children with metastatic osteosarcoma (OS), interleukin-2 (IL-2) was added to the standard treatment due to its capacity to activate lymphocytes and differentiate lymphocyte subsets into lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells that are capable of recognizing and killing various tumor cells. 29094224 2017