Tuesday, February 11, 2014

What is immunosurveillance?

Cancer immunosurveillance is a theory where proposed that lymphocytes acts as sentinels in recognizing and eliminating continuously arising nascent transformed cells. Cancer immunosurveillance appears to be an important host protection process that inhibits carcinogenesis and maintains regular cellular homeostasis. It has also been suggested that immunosurveillance primarily functions as a component of a more general process of cancer immunoediting.

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