Source: Netherlands Cancer Institute Myeloid immune cells kill cancer cells by eating them but cancer cells prevent this from happening by giving out a ‘do not eat me’ signal. Led by immunologists Ton Schumacher (Netherlands Cancer Institute and Oncode) and Ferenc Scheeren (Leiden University Medical Center), researchers from various research institutes have discovered a new method to inhibit the ‘don’t …
How does cancer evade the immune system? New mechanism revealed
By: Timothy Newman From: medicalnewstoday.com Cancer’s ability to elude our body’s immune system has long puzzled researchers. The latest study pinpoints one of cancer’s protective cloaks and investigates a way to remove it. Cancer cells are cells that have gone awry; they both multiply unchecked and function incorrectly. Normally, cells that are faulty, dead, or dying are cleared away by …