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Right Program could turn Immune Cells into Cancer Killers

A tumor-specific T cell engages with a tumor cell. Bystander T cells do not engage with the tumor. Credit: PNAS Dec. 10, 2002, Copyright (2002) National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A.

Cancer-fighting immune cells in patients with lung cancer whose tumors do not respond to immunotherapies appear to be running on a different “program” that makes them less effective than immune cells in patients whose cancers respond to these immune treatments, suggests a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.

The findings, published in the August 5 issue of Nature, could lead to new ways to overcome tumor resistance to these treatments.

“Cancer immunotherapies have tremendous promise, but this promise only comes to fr...

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