Harnessing The Immune System To Fight Cancer

DENISE GRADY, NY Times: Science
Sat, 07/30/2016 - 5:08am

New drugs and methods of altering a patient’s own immune cells are helping some cancer patients — but not all — even when standard treatments fail.

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