article_snippet.sent: Prostate cancer resistant to conventional treatment could be all but wiped out by a therapy that boosts the immune system, claim researchers.
article_snippet.sent: The problem is partly caused by immune system
article_snippet.sent: In the body’s defences in prostate and other cancers study, the body’s defences in prostate and other cancers found a way of blocking the development or function of these B-cells, or removed these B-cells entirely before using oxaliplatin.
article_snippet.sent: The prostate tumours were ‘almost completely destroyed’ by the mice’s own immune cells, US scientists said.
article_snippet.sent: Because of the effect of the immune system, advanced and aggressive prostate cancer does not typically respond to chemotherapy, researchers said.
article_snippet.sent: Prostate cancer cells.
article_snippet.sent: Professor Michael Karin, study co-author and also from the University of California at San Diego, said there might be implications for the treatment of other types of cancer.
article_snippet.sent: Researchers there have made this new prostate cancer breakthrough .