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IMMUNESYSTEMCANCERAND THEA PUBLICATION FROMTHE VITAL CONNECTIONCANCER AND THE IMMUNE SYSTEM: THE VITAL CONNECTIONCopyright 1987 by CANCER Research InstituteAll rights reservedRevised 2003, 2016Jill O Donnell-Tormey, CEO and Director of Scientific AffairsCancer Research InstituteMatthew Tontonoz, Science Writer CANCER Research Institute CONTENTSINTRODUCTION: REVISITING THE C 1: WHAT IS CANCER ?................................. ..................................... Cell Division, Mutations, and How CANCER CANCER Incidence and Mortality in the CANCER and the Immune 2: THE HUMAN IMMUNE Innate Immunity: Our First Line of Adaptive Immunity: Learning the Enemy s Inflammation: Linking Innate and Adaptive The Humoral Immune Response: Making The Cellular Immune Response: Mak

leukemias and lymphomas, respectively. Melanomas arise from darkly pigmented cells, called melanocytes, located in the skin. With so many possible ways to harm the body, it is not surprising that cancer takes a serious toll on public health. Apart from heart

  Cancer, Lymphoma