Homegrown Guardians: Harnessing the Power of the Immune System to Fight Breast Cancer

Written by: Kassidy Jungles

Edited by: Christina Del Greco and Peijin Han

Cancer is an enemy of your body, starting when your cells turn against you, rapidly divide, and spread. Cancer is clever and conniving. Cancer can rapidly mutate over time, making it difficult for your body to notice and even more difficult to treat. Because of this, it might be hard to imagine your body as the answer to ridding itself of its homegrown enemies. However, this is precisely the future of cancer treatment that scientists are imagining. What if the answer to treating cancer is using homegrown guardians derived from your immune system to beat cancer at its own game?

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