Cancer exports molecular 'saboteurs' to remotely disarm immune system
Thursday, April 4, 2019 - 21:50
in Health & Medicine
Immunotherapy drugs known as checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionized cancer treatment: many patients with malignancies that until recently would have been considered untreatable are experiencing long-term remissions. Now, researchers have identified a surprising phenomenon that may explain why many cancers don't respond to these drugs, and hints at new strategies to unleash the immune system against disease.