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Blocking copper uptake in tumour cells may be clue to boosting immune system – fighting the deadliest of cancers – UNSW Newsroom

Researchers from Children’s Cancer Institute and UNSW Sydney have published a paper describing how copper in tumours modulates tumour immune evasion.

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Researchers from Childrens Cancer Institute and UNSW Sydney have published a paper describing how copper in tumours modulates tumour immune evasion.Australian researchers have discovered that removing copper from the blood can destroy some of the deadliest cancers that are resistant to immunotherapy using models of the disease.
While immunotherapy, a treatment that works through a patients immune system to kill the cancers, has proven to be a breakthrough for many cancer patients, offering rea…

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