Awaken the force within: immunotherapy brings a new hope to cancer treatment
presented by Joy Jiao
Cancer immunotherapy, the use of the immune system to fight cancer, has revolutionized treatment options for diseases such as advanced lung cancer and melanoma. Recently, cancer immunotherapy has obtained additional fame as former president Jimmy Carter is currently being treated with this cutting-edge therapy. In this talk, I will explain how cancer immunotherapy works, our current understanding of how cancer cells “escape” from cancer immunotherapy, and what we can do about it.