Discovery about how cancer cells evade immune defences inspires new treatment approach
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Updated: Dec 29, 2020 10:29 IST
Washington [US], December 29 (ANI): A recent discovery about the process of evasion by cancer cells has led researchers towards a new approach to treat the disease.
Cancer cells are known for spreading genetic chaos. As cancer cells divide, DNA segments and even whole chromosomes can be duplicated, mutated, or lost altogether. This is called chromosomal instability, and scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering have learned that it is associated with cancer's aggressiveness.
The more unstable chromosomes are, the more likely that bits of DNA from these chromosomes will end up where they don't belong: outside of a cell's central nucleus and floating in the cytoplasm.