BOOSTING OUR NATURAL CANCER DEFENCES

摘要

A newly discovered immune cell that can drive the body to attack itself seems to protect mice against cancer. Boosting supplies of these cells in people might help keep cancer at bay.rnAs well as fighting bacterial infection, Thl7 cells play a key role in triggering the inflammation and injury of autoimmune disease, in which the immune system turns on the body's own tissue. But Natalia Martin-Orozco at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, and her colleagues noticed thatrnthe cells also infiltrate tumours.