Think of cancer as a kind of infection. Like viruses and bacteria, tumor cells can develop ways to avoid detection and destruction by a person’s immune system.
Scientists now have found that many human cancers may evade surveillance by exploiting a protein normally found on certain immune cells. In an upcoming Nature Medicine, Lieping Chen of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.,
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