CANCER REQUIRES SUPPORT FROM IMMUNE SYSTEM TO DEVELOP, RESEARCHERS REPORT
October 30, 2008
October 30, 2008
DALLAS, Oct. 30 -- The University of Texas at Southwestern Medical Center issued the following news release:
Tumors that grow around nerves in a rare genetic disease need cooperation from cells from the immune system in order to grow, reports a team of scientists, including researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Treating mice with a drug that attacks the immune cells -- not the tumor -- greatly reduced the size and metabolism of the tumors, the scientists . . .
Tumors that grow around nerves in a rare genetic disease need cooperation from cells from the immune system in order to grow, reports a team of scientists, including researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Treating mice with a drug that attacks the immune cells -- not the tumor -- greatly reduced the size and metabolism of the tumors, the scientists . . .