A revolutionary form of cancer treatment, immunotherapy is a departure from the three main types—surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy—that doctors have historically employed. Unlike these older approaches, cancer immunotherapy aims to use a patient’s own immune system to hunt down and destroy dangerous cells. In a complete paradigm shift, immunotherapy targets not the cancer, but the patient’s own body, empowering it to fight cancer on its own. The core idea behind cancer immunotherapy is to tweak the human immune system, specifically the T cells, its primary foot soldiers. By rewiring these
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