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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

cancer, immune system, macrophage, breast cancer

College

Life Sciences

Department

Microbiology and Molecular Biology

Abstract

The field of cancer research is extensive, and there are many avenues being explored into how cancer works inside the body and what we can do to prevent and cure this disease. I chose to look at the way the body’s immune system interacts with different types of cancer cells. I specifically looked at a cell in the human immune system known as a macrophage. The macrophage’s job is to attack foreign invaders by engulfing, or eating them. My question focused on how exactly cancer is sometimes able to evade these macrophages, which allows it to proliferate throughout the body. If we could discover the why to this question we would be better able to combat the disease which takes so many lives every year.

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