Blood cancer treatment may age immune cells as much as 30 years

Thursday, September 1, 2016 - 17:31 in Health & Medicine

Certain cancer treatments are known to take a toll on patients, causing side effects like fatigue, nausea and hair loss. Now, scientists are investigating whether some treatments can cause another long-term side effect: premature aging of important disease-fighting cells. University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers, by tracking a molecular marker that has […]

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