In 2013 Science magazine declared Cancer Immunotherapy the breakthrough of the year. This heralded the era of a different form of cancer treatment. In contrast to therapies such as radiation and cytotoxic drugs (chemotherapy) that directly kill the patient’s tumor, immunotherapies act on the patient’s immune system, training and augmenting its ability to kill tumor cells.
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