Study Identifies How Ovarian Cancer Protects Itself (IMAGE)

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Study Identifies How Ovarian Cancer Protects Itself

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Histological image of an ovarian cancer patient’s tumor analyzed for IL-4. Cancer cells expressing the gene PAX8 (green) also show IL-4 expression (red), which was found to help protect the cancer cells from the immune system.

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Mollaoglu et al., Cell

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