Posted in Ovarian cancer

Cancer can only develop and progress when the tumour cells can hide from the body's immune system. Cancer immunotherapies, which boost the body's immune defence against cancer, have emerged as promising therapies in multiple tumour types. However, the effectiveness of immunotherapies against ovarian cancer has remained modest. This is mainly since the mechanisms how ovarian cancer cells hide from the immune system have been unknown. Now, researchers at the University of Helsinki have...