Why older individuals react badly to cancer treatment

Scientists might have discovered a group of immune cells that increase in number with age however are too worn to combat illness. The build-up of inefficient virtual memory T cells, in addition to the loss of real naïve T cells, might discuss why older individuals have actually minimized immune actions to cancer and vaccines, why cancer immunotherapy is less effective in the senior, and might assist to customize cancer immunotherapy treatments particularly for older clients.

Initial source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180619122958.htm