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Sat Mar 2, 2013, 08:30 AM Mar 2013

Skin cancer 'able to fight off body's immune system'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21635697




A deadly form of skin cancer is able to fend off the body's immune system, UK researchers have found.

Analysis of tumour and blood samples shows that melanoma knocks out the body's best immune defence.

A potential test could work out which patients are likely to respond to treatment, the Journal of Clinical Investigation reports.

Cancer Research UK said the body's response was a "complex puzzle".
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