Saturday, December 7, 2013

New Method for Predicting Ovarian Cancer Survival by Counting Tumor-Attacking Immune Cells

A new method for counting a special class of cancer-fighting cells, called tumor-infiltrating T lymphocytes, or TILs, has been developed by scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The method can be used reliably, quickly and cheaply in patients with early stage and advanced ovarian cancer. They describe their findings online Dec. 4 in iScience Translational Medicine/i. Such technology, a DNA-amplification technique, has the potential ...

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