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<ul> <li>Researchers from IRB Barcelona describe a mechanism by which senescent cells generated by chemotherapy survive inside tumours.</li> <li>A new immunotherapy in animal models eliminates these senescent cells and improves the effectiveness of chemotherapy.</li> <li>The study has been published in the journal <em>Nature Cancer</em>.</li>
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Cancer treatments, including chemotherapy, in addition to killing a large number of tumor cells, also result in the generation of senescent tumor cells (also called "zombi cells").
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