Key insight: PD-L1, a molecular target of cancer immunotherapy, is so closely tied to pain in animal experiments, scientists think it may mean the more pain is felt, the better the treatment is working.
Pain exists for a reason: It alerts us that something’s gone awry in our bodies. Now, a new study suggests that some cancers might block our ability to sense the pain that radiates from a tumor —allowing it to continue growing, surreptitiously.
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Yep. As if people with cancer haven’t been manipulated, conned, and taken advantage of physically, emotionally and financially enough. Always another entity looking for what money you have left. Disgusting!
Since this is for subscription only readers, is there at least a reference to a journal article we can read for more information? Please!
Lance —
Here is the reference to the report by Gang Chen and colleagues in Nature Neuroscience that the STAT article covers: http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn.4571.html
Pat Skerrett
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Wow. Pretending to be an accessible article on the Globe main page and then demanding we subscribe to something completely separate from the Globe if we want to see it? Dirty trick.
Jessica- My sentiments exactly!
Why masquerade as a Globe article and then not let people read the it? Hint: don’t go out of your way to look like you have your hand out for our hard earned dollars before you show you’re worth it. Right now, that would be a nope.
Trick articles are a good way to reduce STAT subscribers. I have to wade thru enough crap; not doing it here