Northwestern Medicine researches find way to use COVID-19 to fight cancer

(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Researchers at Northwestern Medicine have found a potential way to fight cancer using the COVID-19 virus.

Director of Northwestern’s Canning Thoracic Institute Dr. Ankit Bharat said he and other researchers found when our immune systems attack the COVID virus, the RNA molecule inside triggers our white blood cells.

Those cells, called monocytes, are often used by cancer cells to help it escape the body’s immune system but in their research, were turned against the cancer…

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