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Article: Cancer Disarms Immune System Cells.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- June 8, 1999
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STANFORD, Calif.--(BW HealthWire)--June 7, 1999--
The immune system, the body's watchdog, often seems to nap while cancer sprouts and spreads, permitting the rogue cells to run wild.
Using a speedy new method for analyzing immune system activity, a Stanford-led research team has discovered how the cancer manages to evade the normally watchful immune system.
Although the body does make anti-cancer cells, these cells have been muzzled so that they won't attack their targets. Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine think that the cancer cells themselves may be causing this inactivity, shutting down their potential attackers.
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