6. Assorted ailments
Our immune systems are trained to tolerate “self” and to attack invaders. Because cancer cells start out as normal cells in the body, the immune system tends to ignore them.
Nevertheless, many cancer cells have cancer-specific proteins on their surfaces, and efforts are under way to develop vaccines to teach patients’ immune systems to recognize these proteins as foreign and to attack the cancer. Because cancer is not one disease, but ...
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