Lung cancer cells are able to take advantage of a person’s immune system, specifically T cells, to protect the tumor, according to new research recently published in Cancer Immunology Research.
Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Revised Edition, 2026), Siddhartha Mukherjee, published by Fourth Estate, HarperCollins India.
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