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Migration or evasion

Tumors use many strategies to evade the immune system. A new study adds a new trick to the list—inhibiting the migration of dendritic cells from tumors toward lymph nodes (pages 98–105).

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Figure 1: Tumor-derived LXR agonists can prevent antitumor immune responses.

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