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Can The Body Fight Off Breast Cancer - Professor J Alejandro Lopez Alejandro Lopez: We have been studying dendritic cells in women with breast cancer. Dendritic cells are very important in mounting an effective immune response so that, normally, a woman can fight off the cancer. We found that most women with breast cancer cannot do that. Our research is to improve the performance of these dendritic cells so that the immune system of women could eliminate the cancers in a natural way. What we're doing at the moment is looking at cancer stem cells as a potential source for immunotherapy. Immunotherapy would be, in the future, a possibility to train the immune system to eliminate the cancer cells that have grown in a woman with breast cancer.