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Activating the immune system to fight cancer

Cancer research
Vials containing biological samples are stored on ice to keep them fresh before being analyzed at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute on December 9, 2014 in Cambridge, England.
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The human immune system is at the center of one of the most exciting recent developments in the battle against cancer.

It seems elementary to use the body's own disease-fighting tools, but part of what makes cancer so insidious is its ability to hide from our normal immune response.

MPR News' Kerri Miller talked with three researchers about which cancers are most susceptible to these new efforts to boost the power of patients' immune systems.