Selenium compounds boost immune system to fight against cancer

Monday, November 24, 2014 - 13:00 in Health & Medicine

The immune system is designed to remove things not normally found in the body. Cells undergoing change, e.g. precursors of cancer cells, are therefore normally recognised and removed by the immune system. Unfortunately, the different cancer cells contain mechanisms that block the immune system's ability to recognise them, allowing them to freely continue cancer development.

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