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Researchers Uncover New Way To Enhance Function Of Immune Cells To Combat Multiple Myeloma

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Researchers have uncovered a new way to enhance the function of a specific type of immune cell that destroys tumors in multiple myeloma, a form of bone marrow cancer considered incurable. In their study, the scientists blocked a hormone-related mechanism that suppresses these immune cells, restoring their ability to battle tumor growth. (source MMDevelopments.org)