Georgina Long & Richard Scolyer explain how immunotherapy can cure cancer
Conquering Skin Cancer
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Imagine harnessing the immune system to cure cancer. Sounds pretty good, right? Well, stop imagining- immunotherapy is making this dream a reality!
These breakthroughs took some serious detective work, after research teams were baffled by melanoma cases spontaneously disappearing.
But a “penicillin moment in cancer history” has seen drugs developed that cure what was thought to be incurable as recently as 10 years ago. And so far, we’ve seen it work in 50% of patients.
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