Immunology in oncology is the latest ,read on Dr Jim Allisons path breaking study. Checkpoint hero The band got a raucous approval, James Allison grinned after giving his harmonica a rest, Another band, Another evening Right No!
This was a band with a difference, its players were all senior researchers in cancer and the audience was from ASCO American society of clinical oncology annual meet where more than 40000 oncologists’ immunologists and clinicians gathered in Chicago year after year to procrastinate plans to fight their common enemy cancer. Immunology was always the elusive bait to success in cancer treatment, It’s Holy Grail almost, if only one could muster the body’s defence mechanism to fight its abnormally growing cells no more need to be done, something which it does routinely for any foreign cells but then there was the catch.What can one do to make it do what it needed…
