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...A new type of immune cell which kills most cancers has been discovered by accident by British scientists, in a finding which could herald a major breakthrough in treatment.
...Asked if it meant that someone in Wales was walking around completely immune to cancer, Prof Sewell said: "Possibly. This immune cell could be quite rare, or it could be that lots of people have this receptor but for some reason it is not activated. We just don't know yet."
...Therapies which engineer immune cells to fight specific types of cancer already exist, but they are currently only useful for some forms of leukaemia, and do not work for solid tumours, which account for most cancers.
..."The team have convincingly shown that, in a lab dish, this type of immune cell reacts against a range of different cancer cells."We still need to understand exactly how it recognises and kills cancer cells, while not responding to normal healthy cells.
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