Article: How body's immune system can keep cancer dormant

Article: RESEARCHERS USE IMMUNE SYSTEM TO FIGHT PROSTATE ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  October 21, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... appears to fight prostate cancer by revving up the body's immune system. ``This same concept ... be applied to breast cancer or other cancers,'' Jonathan Simons ... to curing prostate cancer using the immune system.'' The study was ...

Article: The war on cancer is heading within - to the immune ...
Charleston Gazette;  March 11, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... one that mobilized his own immune system in the battle against cancer. It's a type of treatment ... melanoma, but with a host of cancers. The immune system is a built-in defense ... to shield the body from cancer, the nation's No. 2 ...

Article: Cancer Disarms Immune System Cells.
Business Wire;  June 8, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... that patients develop cancer because the immune system doesn't recognize the cancer cells as abnormal." However, some cancers do produce antigens ... as red flags for the immune system, and anti-cancer immune cells are occasionally ...

Article: The war on cancer is heading within _ to the immune ...
Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  January 14, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... one that mobilized his own immune system in the battle against cancer. It's a type of treatment ... melanoma, but with a host of cancers. The immune system is a built-in defense ... to shield the body from cancer, the nation's No. 2 ...

Article: The war on cancer is heading within _ to the immune ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  January 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... one that mobilized his own immune system in the battle against cancer. It's a type of treatment ... melanoma, but with a host of cancers. The immune system is a built-in defense ... to shield the body from cancer, the nation's No. 2 ...

Article: Immune system gets tough against ...
The Virginian Pilot;  June 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... way to fight cancer: using the ... defender, the immune system. The approach is called a cancer vaccine, although ... vaccines for three cancers - prostate ... the American Cancer Society. Instead ... discoveries about the immune system that now seem ...

Article: The new promise of cancer vaccines: triggering the ...
U.S. News & World Report;  March 6, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... immunizing colon cancer patients with their ... that boost the immune system. The time needed ... virtually all prostate cancers." Shrinking tumors? At the National Cancer Institute, Jeffrey ... out more to the immune system. In the just ...