Two cancer researchers have been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of how the immune system can be harnessed to attack tumor cells, which led to immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy. Award has been shared for James P. Allison, PhD, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in ...

Cancer is a state which involves an abnormal increase in the number of cells, with a potentiality to invade or spread to other parts of the body and destroy their function. Every individual is born with an immune system that acts as a security checkpoint. The immune system does possess B and T lymphocytes, B ...