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Does cancer weaken the immune system or does the medication for the cancer (chemotherapy) weaken the immune system?
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Cancer and immunity: Interesting question. Cancer usually either fools or overwhelms the immune system as the latter usually keeps cancer cells in check. Medications for cancer vary, some kill the good and the bad and wipe out the immune system with the cancer cells and the new biologics are targeted therapy that only kill cancer cells. Science is progressing, stay tuned..
Answered 6/9/2013
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