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News for Healthier Living
Experimental Therapy Targets Cancer's Bodyguards, Turning Foe to Friend to Eliminate Tumors
Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed an experimental immunotherapy that takes an unconventional approach to metastatic cancer: instead of going after cancer cells directly, it targets the cells that protect them.
The study, published in the January 22 online issue of Cancer Cell, a Cell Press Journal [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccell.2025.12.021], was conducted in aggressive preclinical models of metastatic ovarian and lung cancer. It points to a new strategy for treating advanced-stage solid tumors. In a strategy modeled after the famed Trojan horse, the treatment enters the tumors by targeting cells called macrophages that guard the cancer cells, disarms these protectors, and opens up the tumor's gates for the immune system to enter and wipe out the cancer cells.
January 22, 2026
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