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Tuning the body's defence to cancer

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Turning off our natural killer could help to reduce chemotherapy side effects.

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  1. ChristophorouM. A., RingshausenI., Finch A. J., Brown Swigart L.& EvanG. I. Nature, advanced online publication, (2006). DOI: 10.1038/nature05077 (2006).

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Heady, L. Tuning the body's defence to cancer. Nature (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/news060904-8

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