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| Subject: OZschwitz scientists uncover new way to slow cancers Wed Apr 27, 2016 9:18 pm | |
| Queensland scientists have discovered a way to slow the growth and spread of many of the most common forms of the disease.
Researchers at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane announced on Thursday they had found an antibody that inhibits the spread of melanoma, lung, breast and prostate cancer cells.
In laboratory tests the antibody activated immune cells that attacked cancer cells.
Professor Mark Smyth, who led the study, said cancer cells had previously been camouflaged by a protein that sat on the surface of the immune cells.
He said the role of the protein was to stop immune cells from becoming "over-activated" and attacking the body's own healthy cells.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/79402514/queensland-scientists-uncover-new-way-to-slow-cancers |
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