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CD44-CD206 axis drives dendritic cell loss and immunosuppression in immaturely glycosylated bladder tumours

Antigen-presenting-cell dysfunction drives immune exclusion, but how tumour glycans disable these cells remains incompletely defined. Immature O-glycosylation, marked by Tn and sialyl-Tn antigens, drives myeloid dysfunction in bladder cancer. Transcriptomics and human tumour profiling linked this state to reduced representation of antigen-presenting myeloid cells and attenuated lymphoid-effector…

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THE BURDEN OF BREAST CANCER

Every person affected deserves timely assessment, and appropriate treatment, write CHIMEZIE ANYAKORA and UJUNWA PRINCESS ONYEKABA Every October, breast cancer awareness campaigns bring the disease…

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