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University of California - San Diego

Immuno-Editing Graphic, University of California San Diego

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Due to a process known as immuno-editing, younger and female patients with cancer have cancer-causing genetic mutations that are least visible to the immune system according to a new Nature Communications study by Hannah Carter, PhD, and team at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

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