To spread, skin cancer attacks immune dendritic cells

By knocking out or beguiling dendritic cells, some cancer cells can slip the defenses of the immune system and sack the unsuspecting body. Dendritic cells taken from one of the most common types of skin cancer have most of the known genetic and physiologic hallmarks of their able-bodied fellows in healthy skin tissue. But they fail to stimulate an effective immune response.

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