When reading an article by medical science, you could see the technical terms that may confuse the brightest minds. But when you understand what these terms mean, you can see that your space is just as exciting and strange as science fiction space. The story of how the body's immune system is like reading a science fiction novel full of strange creatures, weapons and plotting to overthrow civilization. This is one of those stories that tells the story of a breakthrough in cancer treatment mesothelioma and offers hope for people suffering from disease.

On February 18, 2010, an academic has been published in the Journal of Respiratory and Critical care relatively obscure part of a group of scientists from 9 Netherlands. Reported a unique approach to immunotherapy, called dendritic cells vaccination to treat cancer mesothelioma. Cancer Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that has been linked with exposure to asbestos can affect the lungs, abdomen and heart. Immunotherapy is an effective therapy that manipulates the body's immune system to fight disease.

To understand the importance of this discovery and what is a dendritic cell approach is that we must first understand how the two cancer occurs and how the immune system works.Think your body like a futuristic city,, Mesothelioma treatment, and your skin like a force field that protects the city. Then imagine that one day a force of alien life slip past the outer defenses and in the city and began to inhabit the body of citizens living in this city. Which is like cancer. The DNA of a healthy cell, it undergoes a mutation, as if an alien life force of living cells.

Scientists have only a theory as to why mutations occur (somatic mutation theory), but not normal cells proven.Once have been transformed, they become zombie like tumor cells and begin replicating their DNA to create new cancer cells . These zombies walk among the living through the city. But it is very strange for them. These tumor cells are not recognized by the immune system of the body as foreign invaders. The reason is that they have developed the detection anti-material weapons that prevent the immune system to recognize them.

To understand the nature of anti-cancer detection of weapons, we must first examine the weapons that the immune system possesses. Imagine that the immune system is an internal security force that patrols the body. The security force composed units.At another front in the battle are the scouts, called dendritic cells. In the face of invading organisms, the dendritic cell molecule called an antigen gather information. Think of a molecule of antigen, as the scent of a body and dendritic cells, such as bomb sniffing dogs.

When the dendritic cell encounters an invader, you retrieve the antigen and immediately moves to the garrisons of battle called lymph nodes. This is where all the combat units reside.Once a lymph node dendritic cells communicate its report to the commander of the Scout called a helper T cell. The helper T cell and alerting the base of the battle and passed the information on the antigens to the destruction of cells. Each cell antigen destroyers now a copy of the invader to enable it to recognize and destroy cancerous cells cells.

There are three main destroyer (WBC). There are killer T-cells (or cytotoxic T lymphocytes) acting as the infantry battalion. Once the killer T cells to identify an intruder (using the antigen were given) that launched a chemical weapon (cytotoxin), which penetrates the invasion forces and literally self-destruct (apoptosis). Macrophages are the tanks of the army. They engulf and digest all the invaders in their path (phagocytosis). Then there are the combat engineers known as B cells when B cells are due to their target antigen, produce and throw millions of antigen homing missiles called antibodies.

The antibody is programmed to search for an agency with a specific antigen target and cling to it. Once connected, it destroys the body appears as an array infection.This