Bowel cancer treatment hope as scientists solve immune system mystery

Scientists have said the discovery opens the door to potentially reversing or preventing this process.

Dr Seth Coffelt led the research (Cancer Research UK/PA)

Scientists are hopeful that a new method of treating bowel cancer can be found after their research solved a decades-long riddle of why the immune system of patients ignores the disease.

Researchers at the University of Glasgow and Cancer Research UK’s Beatson Institute have discovered how bowel cancer blinds the immune system so it cannot see the cancer and renders it unable to destroy it.