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I wouldn't be so sure, a cancer that doesn't express classical MHC but still manages to suppress NK cells has a chance. It would probably have to master a few o
by iskander 7y ago
I wouldn't be so sure, a cancer that doesn't express classical MHC but still manages to suppress NK cells has a chance. It would probably have to master a few other immunosuppressive pathways but it's not beyond imagination.
Transplanted HeLa cells were shown to engraft in unrelated human "subjects" (in some truly evil experiments by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_M._Southam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_M._Southam), other cell lines probably have the same capacity.