Cancer cells wrap themselves in platelets to hide from the immune system, a trick that helps them spread. Dr. Dino Prato explains how removing this platelet coating could make tumors visible to your body's defenses again.
What if I told you cancer has a travel hack? Not a new mutation, not a new chemo, but a blood-thickening trick. Cancer cells can wrap themselves in platelets, like putting on a disguise so your immune system can't recognize them. This is very common in advanced cancer patients. We want the immune system to be able to recognize these cancer cells. If we can remove this invisible cloak of all of these platelets and make those cancer cells visible to your immune system, you're going to have a better chance of slowing down metastases in any stage of cancer.
