How the Immune System Becomes Blind to Cancer Cells (IMAGE)

University of Freiburg

How the Immune System Becomes Blind to Cancer Cells

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Cancer cells become invisible to the body's immune response. Unhindered by T cells (green), they can continue to replicate. Scientists have now described an important step in this process called "immune escape".

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Illustration: CIBSS/University of Freiburg, Michal Roessler

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