Scottish scientists have discovered how bowel cancer blinds the body's immune system
Scottish scientists hope their award winning research will bring new bowel cancer treatments after discovering how the deadly disease takes over the body.
Scientists have said the discovery opens the door to potentially reversing or preventing this process. It would allow the immune system to see the bowel cancer cells and stop them from growing and multiplying. He continued: "Cancer doesn’t want immune cells recognising them as a threat, so they manipulate the immune cells so they can’t see the threat and simply pass on by leaving the cancer to do its damage."Bowel cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in the UK, with about 16,800 deaths in the country every year – or 46 every day. As part of the work, the Glasgow-based researchers focused on a particular type of immune cell called gamma delta T cells.
Using tissue samples from bowel cancer tumours donated by patients in Scotland, and other countries, scientists were able to identify the specific mechanism the cancer cells use to rewire the gamma delta T cells on a molecular level.
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