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Article: New Technique Helps Immune System Detect, Fight Cancer.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- November 27, 2001
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2001 NOV 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new therapeutic technique helps the immune system identify and attack abnormal cells, according to Howard M. Grey, MD, a leading expert in immunotherapy for cancer.
"It was once thought that tumors had some antigen that the immune system could recognize and handle, just as the immune system handles a bacterial or viral infection," according to Grey, president and scientific director of the La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology, San Diego. "But that concept now appears incorrect for most tumors. Many tumors don't have any antigens that are unique or different from the antigens expressed by any other cell within ...