A technique that thwarts tumour camouflage
The newspaper El País has published an article about a scientific study that reveals that immunotherapy with antibodies prevents cancer from evading natural killer cells. The article includes statements by Eduard Batlle, head of the Colorectal Cancer Lab at IRB Barcelona, as an external expert.
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