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Groundbreaking, riveting, and expertly told, THE BREAKTHROUGH is the story of the game-changing sci.
As advances in the fields of Cancer research and the human immune system continue to fuel a therapeutic arms Race among biotech and pharmaceutical research centers around the world, the next step-harnessing the wealth of new information to create modern and more effective patient therapies-is unfolding at an unprecedented pace, rapidly redefining our relationship with this all-too-human disease.
In THE BREAKTHROUGH, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Nurse Charles Graeber guides readers through the revolutionary scientific research bringing Immunotherapy out of the realm of the miraculous and into the forefront of twenty-first-century medical science.
The result is what many are calling cancer\'s "penicillin moment," a revolutionary discovery in our understanding of Cancer and how to beat it.
For decades, scientists have puzzled over one of medicine\'s most confounding mysteries: Why doesn\'t our immune system recognize and fight Cancer the way it does other diseases, like the common cold?As it turns out, the answer to that question can be traced to a series of tricks that Cancer has developed to turn off normal immune responses-tricks that scientists have only recently discovered and learned to defeat.
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We are immersed in the stories of the brave, desperate patients who try emerging therapies...
We can\'t fail to see ourselves, our friends and our families in these stories." --The Wall Street Journal New York Times bestselling author Charles Graeber details the astonishing scientific discovery of the code to unleashing the human immune system to fight -- and possibly even Cure -- cancer, in this "captivating and heartbreaking" (The Wall Street Journal) book, featuring interviews with 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine award-winners James P.
Graeber\'s hands, the evolution of immuno-oncology is both captivating and heartbreaking. "Engaging...
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