{"id":200866,"date":"2024-12-06T05:58:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T11:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/study-identifies-turncoat-cells-that-fight-and-aid-cancer"},"modified":"2024-12-06T05:58:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T11:58:56","slug":"study-identifies-turncoat-cells-that-fight-and-aid-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/study-identifies-turncoat-cells-that-fight-and-aid-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Study identifies \u2018turncoat\u2019 cells that fight\u2014and aid\u2014cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-identifies-turncoat-cells-that-fight-and-aid-cancer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yale researchers have made an unexpected discovery\u2014turncoat T cells that help a tumor evade other cancer-fighting immune T cells\u2014in a study of patients living with advanced melanoma.<\/p>\n<p>The study by Yale Cancer Center (YCC) researchers at Yale School of Medicine (YSM) discovered that not all CD8<sup>+<\/sup> T cells are allies in a body\u2019s fight against <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cancer+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cancer cells<\/a>. Patients living with severe <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/melanoma\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">melanoma<\/a> who had increased levels of suppressor, regulatory CD8<sup>+<\/sup> T cells had worse survival outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41590-024-02023-4\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Immunology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yale researchers have made an unexpected discovery\u2014turncoat T cells that help a tumor evade other cancer-fighting immune T cells\u2014in a study of patients living with advanced melanoma. The study by Yale Cancer Center (YCC) researchers at Yale School of Medicine (YSM) discovered that not all CD8+ T cells are allies in a body\u2019s fight against [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}