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Science and Medicine
Stunning News about Fighting Cancer
A NEW YORK TIMES BREAKING NEWS ALERT popped up on my computer screen this morning. I barely caught it, but it seemed to say something about successfully getting the body’s immune system to attack cancer. I checked out the newspaper’s website, and sure enough, found the article: Harnessing the Immune System to Fight Cancer.
Through immunotherapy, sometimes in combination with chemotherapy and other procedures, patients who were expected to die have been living years longer than expected. Some have reduced the stage and involvement enough to have surgery, which wasn’t an option for them before.
This is a rather long article but worth the read. With advances in cancer treatments like immunotherapy, every day there’s hope for a cure.