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Cancer: A new killer lymphocyte enters the ring
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Cancer: A new killer lymphocyte enters the ring

by  University of Geneva The fight between CD4 T-lymphocytes (in blue) against tumour cells (in orange). Credit: 2021 EPFL Hatice Altug Treatments for beating tumors are mainly based on CD8 T lymphocytes, which specialize in detecting and eliminating intracellular infections and in killing cancer cells. A large proportion of patients, however, do not respond to these...