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Search - The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer

The Breakthrough Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer
Author: Charles Graeber

Charles Graeber, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Nurse, details the astonishing scientific discovery of the code to unleashing the human immune system to fight -- and possibly even cure -- cancer. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px Calibri; color: #232323; -webkit-text-stroke: #232323} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0... more ».0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Calibri; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; min-height: 19.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none}

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As it turns out, the answer to that question can be traced to a series of tricks that cancer has developed to turn off normal immune responses -- tricks that scientists have only recently discovered and learned to defeat. The result is what many are calling cancer's "penicillin moment," a revolutionary discovery in our understanding of cancer and how to beat it.

In THE BREAKTHROUGH, Graeber guides readers through the revolutionary scientific research bringing immunotherapy out of the realm of the miraculous and into the forefront of twenty-first-century medical science. As advances in the fields of cancer research and the human immune system continue to fuel a therapeutic arms race among biotech and pharmaceutical research centers around the world, the next step -- harnessing the wealth of new information to create modern and more effective patient therapies -- is unfolding at an unprecedented pace, rapidly redefining our relationship with this all-too-human disease.

Groundbreaking, riveting, and expertly told, THE BREAKTHROUGH is the story of the game-changing science behind the scientific breakthroughs that are changing our ability to recognize and defeat cancer, as told through the experiences of the patients, physicians, and cancer immunotherapy researchers who are on the front lines. This is the incredible true story of the race to find a cure, a dispatch from the life-changing world of modern oncological science, and a brave new chapter in medical history.

ISBN-13: 9781455568505
ISBN-10: 1455568503
Publication Date: 11/6/2018
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Twelve
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 2
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Genres:

Health, Fitness & Dieting >> Diseases & Physical Ailments >> Cancer
Science & Math >> Biological Sciences >> Biology >> Cell Biology
Medical Books >> Medicine >> Internal Medicine >> Oncology

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