About the Book`: The Breakthrough`: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer
Follow along as this New York Times bestselling author details the astonishing
scientific discovery of the code to unleashing the human immune system to fight
in this "captivating and heartbreaking" book (The Wall Street Journal). For
decades, scientists have puzzled over one of medicines most confounding
mysteries`: Why doesnt 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