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Why anti-cancer immunotherapy doesn't always work?

kletkiResearchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden have discovered cells that interfere with the action of cancer drugs. They are in the blood vessels of cancerous tumors.

Cancer is an insidious disease that can hide from the treatment, suppressing the ability of T-cells to destroy cancer cells.

But anticancer therapy uses T-cells. The tumor produces cells that suppress as a natural anti-cancer mechanisms, and the effects of drugs aimed at the destruction of the tumor.

The understanding of the mechanisms of interaction between tumor and immune system will develop the individual scheme of treatment of cancer.