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Article: Boosting The Immune System May Help Fight Pediatric Cancer.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- May 15, 2001
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2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
Johns Hopkins University pediatric oncology director Robert Arceci, MD, PhD, will lead efforts to find a way to keep the body's cancer-fighting immune cells awake and responsive to tumor cells in pediatric patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML).
Scientists have long known that it is possible to activate immune cells to recognize molecules found on tumor cells. Specialized immune system cells called T cells identify and track down cancer cells with the help of molecules called receptors on their own cell surface and molecules on the surface of so-called antigen presenting cells (APCs). If these molecules ...