A GAME CHANGER FOR CANCER?
Jul 30, 2020
4 minutes
WORDS: NIKKI SPENCER.
With cancer affecting a staggering one in three of us, it’s no surprise that any sign of a so-called ‘cure’ will leave us excited.
Chemotherapy has been the customary treatment for cancer, but lately there’s been a heightened buzz around immunotherapy, a treatment that targets cancer cells directly and stimulates the body’s immune system to fight cancer. The past few years have seen a wave of immunotherapy drugs being licensed, with more and more being tested in clinical trials in a bid to cure cancer.
Increasing numbers of these are becoming available in the UK.
What’s more, in 2016, The Institute of Cancer Research and The
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