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‘Reprogramming’ immune cells to attack cancer tumors

January 22, 2019

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Immunotherapy is a type of treatment that focuses on boosting the body’s own immune response against cancer tumors.

This type of therapy has become more popular over the past few years, and researchers have made it a priority to understand better how cancer cells and specialized immune cells interact with each other.

In a new study, a team of researchers from the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA has investigated how to “stimulate” macrophages to attack cancer cells.

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