I get by with help from my friends: Maintaining immune cells in head and neck cancer

(Medical University of South Carolina) In an article published Sept. 22, 2016 in Frontiers in Immunology, researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina and the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center report that inhibiting prostaglandin production slows the progression of premalignant lesions to head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Preclinical studies showed that treatment of premalignant lesions with indomethacin, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug similar to aspirin, increased the presence of immune cells and lessened tumor burden.
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