UA Cancer Researchers Push New Frontiers in Immunotherapy
Drs. Daruka Mahadevan (left) and Eric Weterings examine cancer cells in a petri dish. Dr. Mahadevan is director of the UA Cancer Center Early Phase Clinical Trials Program. (All photos by Kris Hanning/UAHS, ABOR, BioCommunications, unless noted)
Your immune system never sleeps. Every moment of the day, immune cells monitor your body for disease, calling for backup when they detect a threat. It's a system that works elegantly — most of the time. It's not foolproof; if it were, we would never get cancer in the first place.