What is the future of immunotherapy

[A trickle of science]

Focussing on the 10 hallmarks of cancer, more particularly in relation to the characteristic of evading immune destruction. This being that tumour cells evolved the trait to appear normal, therefore escape being forced to undergo apoptosis and being destroyed by various leukocytes.

This is where immunotherapy steps in, adopting various methods to strengthen the immune system to recognise various cancers cells depending on the method used.

As this technique seems quite promising, should this be the future focus?, and secondly what if a tumour is yet do evolve this characteristic?

To me there is always going to be a need for a variety of techniques, I just don't know which should be funded more than others to give that added push.

[swansont]

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