“Feature story on immunotherapy, a cutting edge form of cancer treatment that helps the body’s own immune system fight cancer. The story includes people with extremely grim prognoses who were cured of cancer through immunotherapy. One of those sources was the second to be treated in a clinical trial using an as-yet-unapproved method of reengineering the patients own T cells to fight leukemia. Story explains the science, where it stands, where FDA approvals stand, and tells the story of people whose lives have been saved. In my experience interviewing scientists and doctors about new treatments for any condition, they always avoid saying “cure,” but in this story, experts told me candidly that immunotherapy could be a cure for cancer.”
