Regulating fas protein may be a route to prevent cancer relapse after immunotherapy – News-Medical.Net

Mount Sinai researchers have solved one of the enduring mysteries of cancer immunotherapy: Why does it completely eliminate tumors in many patients, even when not all the cells in those tumors have the molecular target that the therapy is aimed at?
The answer involves a protein called fas, and regulating fas may be a route to preventing cancer relapse, the researchers reported in a study published in Cancer Discovery in December.
Cancer immunotherapies target antigens, or proteins, on the surface…

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