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From left to right: Co-authors Weilin Li, Tom Enbar, Li Tang, and Lucia Bonati © Alain Herzog

Unexpected immune response may hold key to long-term cancer remission

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Results from a preclinical study in mice, led by EPFL, and a collaborative clinical study in patients show that the type 2 immune response – associated with parasitic infection and thought to play a negative role in cancer immunity – is positively correlated with long-term cancer remission.

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