SINGAPORE - A research team led by the National Cancer Center Singapore has discovered how cancer cells escape detection and destruction by the immune system -- a feature that was previously unknown. The findings have implications for the development of novel strategies for cancer treatment, bringing medicine closer to curing even the most lethal of cancers, researchers say. The team, comprising members from Duke-NUS Medical School, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research's (A*Star) Singapore Immunology Network, the University of Southampton and the Alan Turing Institute, had their breakthrough discovery published in scienti...Keep on reading: New study shows for the first time how cancer evades the immune system