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New immunotherapy to beat cancer – Mirage News
Cancer immunotherapy1 is the manipulation of the immune responses naturally present in the human body to fight cancer. Often, these immune responses are…
Cancer immunotherapy1 is the manipulation of the immune responses naturally present in the human body to fight cancer. Often, these immune responses are blocked by cells or molecules that prevent them from killing cancer cells, and the tumour is able to establish itself and grow.
In 2004, Sophie Lucas, now president of the UCLouvain de Duve Institute, began studying the blocking of immune defences in tumours in order to understand the functioning of cells that are said to be ‘immunosuppressive’…
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