Engineering the immune system to kill cancer cells

Wednesday, June 15, 2016 - 17:01 in Health & Medicine

In late 2015, former President Jimmy Carter announced that he was free of the metastatic melanoma that had spread to his liver and brain. In addition to surgery and radiation, Carter was treated with an immunotherapy drug, a new approach in cancer treatment that has a promising outlook.

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