text: How healthy cells might help cancer survive – LabDish: A CSHL News blog
  Andrea Alfano February 4, 2016 No Comments
  These green immune cells are mostly macrophages and monocytes, which mature into
  macrophages, according to Egeblad. Macrophages are best known for killing bacteria in the body by swallowing and destroying them, but they also help out with tasks such as healing wounds by stimulating cell growth with chemical signals.
  "These are cells that are recognizing that there's cell death going on so they're coming in response to that," Egeblad says. "What we did find is that they ultimately drive resistance to the chemotherapy.".