These cells slow an immune response. Derailing them could help fight tumors

Drug combinations that release multiple brakes on the defense system curbed cancer in mice

immune suppressor cells

Drugs that target immune suppressor cells (pictured as brown cells infiltrating the colon of a mouse with colorectal cancer) could help the body’s defense system fight cancer.

Woosook Kim

Drugs that release brakes on the immune system have helped thousands of people with cancers that were previously untreatable.