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From what I’ve read both are options. There’s benefits to getting the immune system to target cancerous cells Such as ongoing protection. Directly killing the
by elcritch 6y ago
From what I’ve read both are options. There’s benefits to getting the immune system to target cancerous cells
Such as ongoing protection. Directly killing the cells is a good way to reduce tumor mass by direct injection however. The first t-cell immune treatments almost killed the patients due to liver/kidney overload from cellular debris as the immune system reacted too strongly, so being able to in cull tumor mass in a controlled fashion likely has merit as well. Either way the “detection method” would need to be very well tested and robust I imagine. Though the first treatments could be for “last chance” treatments that’d enable testing the safety of the particular detection method.