Lund University Researchers Discover Why Leukemia Cells Evade the Immune System
While immunotherapy has scored a significant level of success in treating many types of cancer, it hasn’t registered similar efficacy in leukemia, especially acute myeloid leukemia, also known as AML. Researchers at Lund University, Sweden have found a possible reason why this could be so. The team sought to identify any unique surface proteins on leukemia cells that could be targeted with new forms of treatment, especially if those unique proteins didn’t exist on healthy cells. Thoas Fioretos, who led the research team, explains that they found one protein on the surface of leukemia stem cells and this particular protein…
