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A fascinating journey alongside a team of scientists on the verge of a breakthrough in cancer treatment. Dan Chen is part of a new generation of researchers attempting to crack the centuries-old mystery of how to harness the body's innate defence system to defeat cancer. Here, New York Times-bestselling author Charles Graeber follows Chen and his team to the forefront of medicine in the twenty-first century, shining a light on the rapid advances in cancer treatment over the past decade, and exploring in depth the idea that our own bodies may be the best weapon for recognising and killing cancer cells. This research heralds a new approach to cancer treatment that brings not just hope, but optimism, for a cure.
About the author
Charles Graeber is a contributing editor for Wired and a contributor to publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, GQ, Vogue, and many others. He has received many awards, and his work has been featured on NPR, CNN, the BBC, and numerous other media outlets.
Summary
New York Times bestselling author Charles Graeber tells the astonishing story of the group of scientists working on a code that can enable the human immune system to fight — and perhaps even cure — cancer.
For decades, scientists have puzzled over one of medicine’s greatest mysteries: why doesn’t our immune system fight cancer the way it does other diseases? The answer is a series of tricks that cancer has developed to turn off normal immune responses — tricks that scientists have only recently discovered, and now are learning to defeat. We are in the midst of a revolution in our understanding of cancer and how to beat it.
Groundbreaking, riveting, and expertly told, The Breakthrough is the story of the game-changing and Nobel Prize-winning scientific discoveries that unleash our natural ability to recognise and defeat cancer, as told through the experiences of the patients, physicians, and immunotherapy researchers who are on the front lines. This is the incredible true story of the race to find a cure, and the definitive account of a historic moment in medical science.
Foreword
Detailing the cutting-edge work that was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize for Medicine.
New York Times bestselling author Charles Graeber tells the astonishing story of the group of scientists working on a code that can enable the human immune system to fight - and perhaps even cure - cancer.
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