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Immunotherapy: Training the body to fight cancer

  • Written by Balveen Kaur, Professor, OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University
imageAn oral squamous cancer cell (white) being attacked by two T cells (red), part of a natural immune response. NIH Image Gallery, CC BY-NC

The human immune system is powerful and complex.

It can identify and destroy invaders of nearly infinite variety, yet spare the more than 30 trillion cells of the healthy body.

Unfortunately, the broken cells of...

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