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Immunotherapy v. Chemotherapy
Recent studies done on mice at the University of Washington show that by targeting and eliminating specific cancerous cells,cells that "dampen" the body's immune system, tumor growth has decreased and there has been a significant improvement of survival. This strategy is known as immunotherapy and is being viewed as another alternative to treating cancer. Instead of killing cells, immunotherapy enables the own individual to fight the cancer with its immune system.This can become a better alternative to treating various forms of cancer. It can develop into an alternative that produces a higher rate of success because it would destroy the cancer completely. It would be able to do this due to the fact that it directly targets the cells that are causing the immune system to become debilitated.
