Doctors Said Immunotherapy Would Not Cure Her Cancer. They Were Wrong.

GINA KOLATA, NY Times: Science
Mon, 02/19/2018 - 10:32am

Scientists are racing to understand why immunotherapy drugs have worked for a few cancer patients when the medicines should have had no effect.

Topics: immunotherapy cancer

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