• Question: What is it about cancer that means it can't be destroyed by the bodies immune system?

    Asked by samandaashishlgs to Katherine on 21 Jun 2011.
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      Katherine Jones answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      Cancer is where the cells of your own body grow out of control. The immune system can’t destroy cancer cells because to the immune system they are just the same as all the rest of your cells.

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