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Understanding Cancer Series: The Immune System
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    Posted: 01/28/2005    Reviewed: 09/01/2006
Slide 31  :  "Privileged" Immunity

A child in the womb carries foreign antigens from the father as well as immunologically compatible self-antigens from the mother.

One might expect this condition to trigger a graft rejection, but it does not because the uterus is an "immunologically privileged" site where immune responses are somehow subdued.

Privileged Immunity