New weapon in the fight against cancer

[theAnimal]

From technologyreview.com:

One of cancer's cleverest tricks is its ability to hide from the immune system. A new approach to cancer treatment called immunotherapy could spare patients at least some of the grueling battery of chemotherapy treatments by retraining the body's own defenders--the cells of the immune system--to recognize and destroy tumors. Now researchers at Harvard University have developed a simple way to do this inside the body: a polymer implant attracts and trains immune-system cells to go after cancer.

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Edit: fixed link

 

[Neurodog]

Thanks for the info.

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for a great read! 😀

 

[Alyx]

Very interesting. I hope the clinical trials in humans go as well as the mice have.