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Cancer Battle: A Timeline to Cure

Trying to engage the body’s own immune system to fight cancer cells is not a new approach to defeating cancer, but it may still be the most promising path to a cure.

by John Reynolds

Associate Professor Sung Jung uses mass spectrometers to measure protein in cancer cells at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston Monday, February 11, 2013. Baylor College of Medicine received a $6 million CPRIT grant to purchase advanced laboratory infrastructure and pay researchers to measure all of the metabolites and proteins in cancer cells at the same time.
Credit: Michael Stravato

Trying to engage the body’s own immune system to fight cancer cells is not a new approach to defeating cancer, but it may still be the most promising path to a cure. (The Atlantic)

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