Cancer and the Immune System: Deciphering the Relationship
Type
Blog Post
Published
March 14, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
...genome engineering have played a huge role. For instance, researchers are genetically altering tumor cells... works on genome engineering and cancer immunotherapy, and is interested in exploring new avenues in healthcare...ve been studying it and, now, researchers are exploring ways to bolster and modulate our immune defenses...environments for tumor cells spreading to other organs during metastasis.
Evading Recognition
Tumor cells over-express...cause a transient shutdown of the immune system, hampering its ability to inhibit further cancer growth and...increasing life expectancy by 4.1 months as opposed to curing the cancer. DCs are harvested from the body, and...trials going amiss and patient deaths have occurred during CAR-T cell tests because treatment regimens were...