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How does the immune system respond to the throat cancer?
Cancer is somewhat confusing to the immune system since it is an aberrant form of the body's own cells which the immune system is not supposed to attack. Sometimes the immune system can detect that the cancer cell is not a normal part of the body, and therefore it will destroy the cancer, but quite often the immune system cannot detect the abnormality of the cancer cell and will ignore it. That is precisely why cancer is so dangerous.
Do b cells destroy cancer cells?
B cells play a role in the immune response against cancer by producing antibodies that can help target cancer cells for destruction by other immune cells. They do not directly destroy cancer cells themselves, but help to coordinate the immune system's response against cancer.
What does the immune system have to do with cancer?
a bunch of cells a bunch of cells
How does your immune system prevent cancer?
he/she needs vitamin C
How does your immune system fight hpv?
The body releases white blood cells to destroy the cancer cells, if cancer hasn't affected with the immune system first. Somtimes cancer can be rid of before the person even knew they had it.
Is aids a kind of cancer?
No, AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, and is a disease of the immune system caused by a virus, not a cancer. It does progressively reduce the effectiveness of the immune system and leaves individuals susceptible to opportunistic infections and tumors.
Does the immune system often kills cancerous cells?
Yes, most of the time the immune system weeds out cells that are abnormal.
Is Herceptin immunosuppressive?
Herceptin (trastuzumab) is not considered immunosuppressive in the traditional sense. Instead, it is a targeted therapy used to treat HER2-positive breast cancer by binding to the HER2 receptor on cancer cells, inhibiting their growth and promoting immune-mediated destruction of these cells. While it can impact the immune system's response to cancer, it does not broadly suppress immune function like typical immunosuppressive drugs. However, some patients may experience side effects that could affect immune responses indirectly.
What do we call the part of your immune system that actively targets germs in your body for destruction?
adaptive
Does cancer weaken the immune system?
Yes, and it often does in the early stages. Evidence shows that many small tumours are stopped by the immune system before they are big enough to see. Once a tumour is large enough to see, it usually means that the immune system has failed to stop it, and in most cases other methods must be tried.
Is hodgskin disease a cancer?
Hodgskin's disease is a rare cancer of lymph nodes and spleen that effects the immune system
What role does the immune system play in bladder cancer?
fights off infections
