Cancer Tumors can be Hot or Cold -Diversity in Therapy Required

Different cancer tumors have different temperatures and these differences points to the need for diversity in treatments. A team from Penn Medicine's Abramson Cancer Center (ACC) discovered that bwhether a tumor is hot or cold is determined by information embedded in the cancer cells themselves/b. Recent studies from Penn Medicine and other institutions have suggested that the degree to which T cells are attracted to a tumor is regulated by genes specific to that tumor. "There is no disputing ...