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Cancer Immunology
Human body makes antibodies that recognize metastatic breast cancer tumors
January 13th, 2005
A team of researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in California has reconstructed the "fossil record" of the immune systems of a group of human cancer patients to investigate if they had ever produced antibodies against their disease. Just as a paleontologist's fossil record suggests interactions of plants and animals that inhabited earth millions of years ago, the fossil record of a cancer patient's immune system may provide a glimpse of how people's immune system interacts with pathogens and cancerous tumors today. What this record shows is that the human body is capable of making numerous antibodies that have the ability to recognize...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-01-13)
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