Certain cancer therapies' success depends on presence of immune cell: study
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 12:00
in Health & Medicine
The immune system may play a critical role in ensuring the success of certain types of cancer therapies, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The research showed treatments that disable cancer-promoting genes called oncogenes are much more successful in eradicating tumors in the presence of a signaling molecule secreted by kind of immune cell called a T helper cell.