Unexpected immune response may hold key to long-term cancer remission

Unexpected immune response may hold key to long-term cancer remission

Results from a preclinical study in mice, led by EPFL, and a collaborative clinical study in patients show that the type 2 immune response — associated with parasitic infection and thought to play a negative role in cancer immunity — is positively correlated with long-term cancer remission. In 2012, 7-year-old Emily Whitehead became the first … Read more