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Article: Cancer requires support from immune system to develop, UT Southwestern researchers report.
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- November 30, 2008
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Tumors that grow around nerves in a rare genetic disease need cooperation from cells from the immune system in order to grow, reports a team of scientists, including researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Treating mice with a drug that attacks the immune cells u not the tumor u greatly reduced the size and metabolism of the tumors, the scientists reported. A clinical trial of the treatment in humans has begun.
"It was not the tumor being treated, but its environment," said Dr. Luis Parada, chairman of developmental biology at UT Southwestern and co-senior author of the study, which appears in the Oct. 31 issue of the journal Cell. "This insight has led to a ...