Source: Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
Date: November 1, 2006
Summary:
The discoverers of the unique mouse line that is resistant to cancer have begun to pin down how the process works and found that white blood cells in these mice overwhelm normal defenses of cancer cells. In a report in Cancer Immunity, a journal of the Academy of Cancer Immunology, posted on line today, researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues said that several types of white blood cells in the mice attack cancer cells by sensing, finding and surrounding them, forming a "rosette," and then killing them.
Commentary: Maybe researchers will be able to use these results to devise new strategies to develop drugs or treatments that enable white blood cells to destroy cancer cells in humans.
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