Effective cancer immunotherapy further linked to regulating a cell 'suicide' gene

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have added to evidence that a gene responsible for turning off a cell's natural " suicide " signals may also be the culprit in making breast cancer and melanoma cells resistant to therapies that use the immune system to fight cancer. A summary of the research, conducted with mice and human cells, appeared Aug. 25 in Cell Reports.
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