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Triggering the immune system to attack tumours

... rashes, and organ damage.  But if we could trigger our own immune system to target a tumour, then we'd have a way to ... David K. -   What we do is we get the body's own defence mechanism, the immune system, to turn its sights ... healthy tissues get hit too. But if we could trigger our own immune system to target a tumour, then we’d have a way ...

Brain scan

Fighting Brain Tumours with Artificial Antibodies

... do instead? Samuel - What we can do instead is to get your own body to fight the cancer, and the main part of the body ... to subvert the cancer tricking in order to get your own immune system to go ahead and attack the tumour again and ...

Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia CIN2

Cancer and Immunity

... system attack the tumour because they are after all your own cells? Richard -   That's a really puzzling thing about ...

Breast tumour

How do cancer cells survive?

... for the cell itself, so they end up dying of their own mutations. Very, very rarely, you get this perfect storm ...

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In-situ cancer vaccine knocks out lymphoma

... cells as a threat, because they are still the body’s own cells and can escape immune surveillance. The new ...

Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Prizes 2011

... level because he was actually testing pieces of his own cancer to see if he could raise an immune response to ...

Small cell lung cancer cells

Immune Attack of Cancer Cells

... immune system attacking, what is self-tissue?  It's your own body.  There's a concern that the immune response might ...