• Question: What is the most amazing thing you have learnt whilst working with cancer?

    Asked by 672actj48 to Matt, Adam on 23 Jun 2017. This question was also asked by udontknowme.
    • Photo: Matthew Lee

      Matthew Lee answered on 23 Jun 2017:

      That cancer cells can tell immune cells not to attack them and instead to protect them!

      Immune cells are meant to kill cancer cells really quickly, but cancer cells can tell them no. And instead they say ‘instead of killing me you should protect me from other immune cells’ so the cancer has a kind of personal body guard! It’s super cool how it does it through receptors and metabolism as well.

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