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Can Antibodies be manufactured to attach to specific cancer cells?


Can Antibodies be manufactured to attach to specific cancer cells?My question is this. The immune system normally does not produce antibodies against cancer cells because it does not consider these cells to be "foreign", but what if you take a cancer cell from a human and inject it into a mouse. Would the mouse's immune system produce an antibody to attack it since the cancer cell is "foreign" in this case? Thanks!

Answer by PaulCyp
Yes! And those antibodies can then be collected and purified, and injected back into the patient the original tumor came from. Research is being done on such immunological approaches to cancer treatment in several institutions.

Answer by william
Yes. The body rejects anything that is not its. Cancer cells are still human cells that you were born with, so the body accepts it. Medical engineers are actually trying to develop nanobots that can kill cancer cells.

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