FUTURE PROPOSAL ON CANCER TREATMENT SOON....
The drug's effectiveness centers on its relationship with a protein called CD47, which is found on the surface of cancer cells in high quantities.
The protein prevents the cancer from being engulfed and eaten by immune cells called macrophages, which serve as the body's garbage trucks by eating old or damaged cells.
The researchers made antibodies that would bind to the CD-47 on the cancer cell so that when a macrophage came along, it did not see CD-47 on the cell and engulfed everything.
So when the drug masked this 'don't-eat-me signal', it allowed the immune system to attack the cancer, destroying some entirely and shrinking others
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A drug that helps the immune system to break down cancerous tumors has been developed and is set to begin human testing early next year.
The drug, developed by researchers at the University of Stanford, has been successful on different of cancers - including breast, bowel, prostate, ovarian and brain - and could even be a cure, they said.The drug's effectiveness centers on its relationship with a protein called CD47, which is found on the surface of cancer cells in high quantities.
The protein prevents the cancer from being engulfed and eaten by immune cells called macrophages, which serve as the body's garbage trucks by eating old or damaged cells.
The researchers made antibodies that would bind to the CD-47 on the cancer cell so that when a macrophage came along, it did not see CD-47 on the cell and engulfed everything.
So when the drug masked this 'don't-eat-me signal', it allowed the immune system to attack the cancer, destroying some entirely and shrinking others
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