Follow along as this New York Times bestselling author details the astonishing scientific discovery of the code to getting your body to fight back against diseases. "Captivating and heartbreaking." —The Wall Street Journal For decades, scientists have puzzled over one of medicine's most confounding mysteries: Why can't 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 that scientists have only recently discovered and learned to defeat. The result is what many are calling cancer's "penicillin moment," a revolutionary discovery in our understanding of cancer and how to beat it. In The Breakthrough, Charles Graeber guides readers through the revolutionary scientific research bringing immunotherapy out of the realm of the miraculous and into the forefront of twenty-first-century medical science. As advances in the fields of cancer research and the human immune system continue to fuel a therapeutic arms race among biotech and pharmaceutical research centers around the world, the next step—harnessing the wealth of new information to create modern and more effective patient therapies—is unfolding at an unprecedented pace, rapidly redefining our relationship with this all-too-human disease. Groundbreaking, riveting, and expertly told, The Breakthrough is the story of the game-changing scientific discoveries that unleash our natural ability to recognize and defeat cancer, as told through the experiences of the patients, physicians, and cancer immunotherapy researchers who are on the front lines. This is the incredible true story of the race to find a cure, a dispatch from the life-changing world of modern oncological science, and a brave new chapter in medical history.

New York Times bestselling author Charles Graeber tells the astonishing story of the group of scientists working on a code that can enable the human immune system to fight — and perhaps even cure — cancer.For decades, scientists have puzzled over one of medicine’s greatest mysteries: why doesn’t our immune system fight cancer the way it does other diseases? The answer is a series of tricks that cancer has developed to turn off normal immune responses — tricks that scientists have only recently discovered, and now are learning to defeat. We are in the midst of a revolution in our understanding of cancer and how to beat it. Groundbreaking, riveting, and expertly told, The Breakthrough is the story of the game-changing and Nobel Prize-winning scientific discoveries that unleash our natural ability to recognise and defeat cancer, as told through the experiences of the patients, physicians, and immunotherapy researchers who are on the front lines. This is the incredible true story of the race to find a cure, and the definitive account of a historic moment in medical science.

¿Por qué nuestro sistema inmunitario no reconoce y combate el cáncer como lo hace con otras enfermedades, como el resfriado? La respuesta a este misterio médico de décadas de antigüedad tiene que ver con los «trucos» que utiliza el cáncer para cortocircuitar las defensas naturales del organismo, trucos que los científicos han descubierto recientemente y que ahora están aprendiendo a combatir. Estamos en medio de una revolución en cuanto a nuestra comprensión del cáncer y cómo vencerlo finalmente. Innovadora, fascinante y contada por expertos, La inmunoterapia y la carrera para curar el cáncer es la historia de los descubrimientos científicos, ganadores del Premio Nobel, que cambian el mundo y liberan nuestra capacidad natural de reconocer y combatir el cáncer, contada a través de las experiencias de pacientes, médicos e investigadores de inmunoterapia de primera línea. Ésta es la increíble historia de la carrera por encontrar una cura, y el relato definitivo de un «momento penicilina» histórico en la ciencia médica.

Follow along as this New York Times bestselling author details the astonishing scientific discovery of the code to getting your body to fight back against diseases. "Captivating and heartbreaking." —The Wall Street Journal For decades, scientists have puzzled over one of medicine's most confounding mysteries: Why can't 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 that scientists have only recently discovered and learned to defeat. The result is what many are calling cancer's "penicillin moment," a revolutionary discovery in our understanding of cancer and how to beat it. In The Breakthrough, Charles Graeber guides readers through the revolutionary scientific research bringing immunotherapy out of the realm of the miraculous and into the forefront of twenty-first-century medical science. As advances in the fields of cancer research and the human immune system continue to fuel a therapeutic arms race among biotech and pharmaceutical research centers around the world, the next step—harnessing the wealth of new information to create modern and more effective patient therapies—is unfolding at an unprecedented pace, rapidly redefining our relationship with this all-too-human disease. Groundbreaking, riveting, and expertly told, The Breakthrough is the story of the game-changing scientific discoveries that unleash our natural ability to recognize and defeat cancer, as told through the experiences of the patients, physicians, and cancer immunotherapy researchers who are on the front lines. This is the incredible true story of the race to find a cure, a dispatch from the life-changing world of modern oncological science, and a brave new chapter in medical history.

New York Times bestselling author Charles Graeber tells the astonishing story of the group of scientists working on a code that can enable the human immune system to fight — and perhaps even cure — cancer.For decades, scientists have puzzled over one of medicine’s greatest mysteries: why doesn’t our immune system fight cancer the way it does other diseases? The answer is a series of tricks that cancer has developed to turn off normal immune responses — tricks that scientists have only recently discovered, and now are learning to defeat. We are in the midst of a revolution in our understanding of cancer and how to beat it. Groundbreaking, riveting, and expertly told, The Breakthrough is the story of the game-changing and Nobel Prize-winning scientific discoveries that unleash our natural ability to recognise and defeat cancer, as told through the experiences of the patients, physicians, and immunotherapy researchers who are on the front lines. This is the incredible true story of the race to find a cure, and the definitive account of a historic moment in medical science.

¿Por qué nuestro sistema inmunitario no reconoce y combate el cáncer como lo hace con otras enfermedades, como el resfriado? La respuesta a este misterio médico de décadas de antigüedad tiene que ver con los «trucos» que utiliza el cáncer para cortocircuitar las defensas naturales del organismo, trucos que los científicos han descubierto recientemente y que ahora están aprendiendo a combatir. Estamos en medio de una revolución en cuanto a nuestra comprensión del cáncer y cómo vencerlo finalmente. Innovadora, fascinante y contada por expertos, La inmunoterapia y la carrera para curar el cáncer es la historia de los descubrimientos científicos, ganadores del Premio Nobel, que cambian el mundo y liberan nuestra capacidad natural de reconocer y combatir el cáncer, contada a través de las experiencias de pacientes, médicos e investigadores de inmunoterapia de primera línea. Ésta es la increíble historia de la carrera por encontrar una cura, y el relato definitivo de un «momento penicilina» histórico en la ciencia médica.