Few years ago, inoperable lung would have meant chemotherapy. Today, there is an important alternative of experimental treatment like immunotherapy which is now a clinical reality. Rather than attacking the cancer directly, as chemo doeses, immunotherapy tries to rally the patient’s own immune system to fight the disease and it seems like working. Harnessing the immune system to fight cancer is a long medical dream which is becoming a reality.
Remarkable stories of tumors melting away and terminal illnesses going into remissions, that last years backed by solid data which leads to explosion of interest and billion dollars of investments. All this brought up with new optimism for oncologists which sense that, they have begun tapping into a force of nature and the medical equivalent of splitting atom. How does it work? Immune system is a network of cells, tissues and chemicals that…
