Cancer cells form in our bodies every day. How does the immune system destroy them?
A) Natural killer and cytotoxic T cells recognize the cancer cells as foreign and attack them.
B) Fevers slow the replication of cancerous cells.
C) Immune secretions, such as interferon, disrupt the DNA of the cancer cells.
D) Antibodies attach to the cancer cells and then macrophages engulf them.
E) The immune system cannot destroy cancer cells.
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