Immunotherapy is hailed as the new frontier in cancer treatment and Dr. Steven Rosenberg is its pioneer. Dr. Rosenberg is Chief of Surgery at the National Cancer Institute. One of his first ever surgeries, some forty years ago, involved a man whose cancer had disappeared.
“This patient had undergone one of the rarest events in all of medicine,” he says. “The spontaneous regression of a widespread cancer in the absence of any therapy. Somehow this patient’s body had learned how to destroy his own cancer.” That case set Dr. Rosenberg off on a four decades-long investigation into the possibilities of immunotherapy, researching how to harness the body’s own ability to fight cancer.
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