By Adil Ali Khan, Class of 2029 Figure 1: Schematic view of the tumor microenvironment Polyploid giant cancer cells (PGGCs), found in tumors, have long been dismissed as excessive inflammatory waste with no biological or clinical relevance. Yet recently, numerous researchers have described the existence of PGGCs in solid tumor masses that appear to correlate with tumor progression, also appearing as cancer-associated macrophage-like cells (CAMLs) … Continue reading Reclassifying the “Waste”: Phenotypic Characterization and Clinical Insights into Cancer-Associated Macrophage-Like Cells