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Scientists unveil discovery in bowel cancer research

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Cancer Research Centre. [File, Standard]

In a ground-breaking discovery, published in the American Association for Cancer Research journal, Cancer Immunology Research, Scottish scientists have unlocked the mystery of why the immune system of patients with bowel cancer fails to recognise and attack the disease.

Researchers at the University of Glasgow and Cancer Research have solved a decades-long conundrum revealing how bowel cancer blinds the immune system rendering it unable to destroy.

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