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at lung cancer patients, they spotted the patients that had better outcomes. the ones that were more likely to survive had a cluster of a very specific type of immune cell going around their tumour. and these are are known as b cells, and they re the cells that produce antibodies inside our bodies. so you might have been familiar with those from the covid pandemic, the things that go around, hunt out and seek out and destroy viruses. and the same process is going on in part of how the body attacks cancer, except instead of attacking a current infection. in a weird way, it s attacking one from millions of years ago. let s speak to cancer biologistjulian downward, who s associate research director of the francis crick institute. i sitting is this? that one that we are 8% viruses a new one for me for sure how significant is this? the sure how significant is this? the focus on the sure how significant is this? tue: focus on the cancer, sure how significant is this? tte: focus

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