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Immune response vital in cancer fight

Activity of body's defences predicts outcome better than tumour spread.

How can you tell how bad a cancer is, and how likely the patient is to survive? New evidence suggests that the best way may sometimes be to look at how well the immune system has attacked tumours, rather than focussing on how far the tumours have spread.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on September 28, 2006 07:00 PM |

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