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Sunday Science: Killing Cancer Requires Immune Cells To Infiltrate Tumors’ Hostile Microenvironment - Sugar Shields Can Help Them Break In

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By Charles J. Dimitroff, Lee Lau
| Portside
Sunday Science: Killing Cancer Requires Immune Cells To Infiltrate Tumors’ Hostile Microenvironment – Sugar Shields Can Help Them Break In Published June 21, 2026 You might think of cancer as a mass of rogue cells that grow uncontrollably. But cancer is more organized and strategic than that. Rather, cancer is a tightly controlled cellular neighborhood that can keep the body’s defenses out or weaken them once they get in. Cancer behaves like a gated community.
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Killing cancer requires immune cells to infiltrate tumors' hostile microenvironment—sugar shields can help them break in

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By Charles J. Dimitroff, Lee Lau, Gaby Clark Verified
| Medical Xpress Verified
CAR-T cells must overcome cancer’s many defenses in order to mount an effective attack. Credit: Lulu Perez, CC BY-SA You might think of cancer as a mass of rogue cells that grow uncontrollably. But cancer is more organized and strategic than that. Rather, cancer is a tightly controlled cellular neighborhood that can keep the body's defenses out or weaken them once they get in. Cancer behaves like a gated community. It has its own residents, rules and security systems.
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Killing cancer requires immune cells to infiltrate tumors’ hostile microenvironment – sugar shields can help them break in

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By Charles J. Dimitroff, Lee Lau
| Idaho Press Verified
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) You might think of cancer as a mass of rogue cells that grow uncontrollably. But cancer is more organized and strategic than that. Rather, cancer is a tightly controlled cellular neighborhood that can keep the body’s defenses out or weaken them once they get in. Cancer behaves like a gated community. It has its own residents, rules and security systems.
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