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How does the immune system protect us from cancer?

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How does the immune system protect us from cancer?

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Cancer cells reside in all of us, and our immune systems work to attack them; natural killer (NK) cells do that via a process called apoptosis. Oncology researcher Kelly Turner, PhD, explain how our immune systems protect us from cancer.

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