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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: thedoc on 06/11/2012 18:28:05

Title: How can we train the immune system on tumours?
Post by: thedoc on 06/11/2012 18:28:05

Current cancer therapies often involve using drugs that are toxic to rapidly growing cells and this inevitably means that some healthy tissues get hit too.  But if we could trigger our own immune system to target a tumour, then we’d have a way to selectively combat the disease while simultaneously minimising the harm to other tissues...
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