Breakthrough

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Nurse comes an empowering and accessible story of the discoveries of the tricks cancer uses to avoid the immune system, and the important new therapies already unleashing the immune system to fight -- and beat -- the disease.
Four years in the writing, The Breakthrough is an "exciting read" about the discoveries which received the 2018 Nobel Prize winning discoveries in October, and a dramatic and exciting turning point in our relationship with a disease that has for too long defined us.
For decades, scientists have puzzled over one of medicine's most confounding mysteries: Why doesn'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, 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

De la New York Times, autorul bestsellerului The Good Nurse vine o poveste accesibila si imputernicita despre descoperirile trucurilor pe care le foloseste cancerul pentru a evita sistemul imunitar, iar noile importante terapii care dezlantuie deja sistemul imunitar pentru a lupta - si a bate - boala. Cu patru ani in scriere, The Breakthrough este o „lectura interesanta” despre descoperirile care au primit descoperirile castigatoare ale Premiului Nobel din 2018 in octombrie si un punct de cotitura dramatic si interesant in relatia noastra cu o boala care ne-a definit de prea mult timp. zeci de ani, oamenii de stiinta s-au nedumerit asupra unuia dintre cele mai confuze mistere ale medicinii: de ce sistemul nostru imunitar nu recunoaste si combate cancerul asa cum face alte boli, cum ar fi raceala obisnuita? Dupa cum se dovedeste, raspunsul la aceasta intrebare poate fi urmarit pana la o serie de trucuri pe care cancerul le-a dezvoltat pentru a dezactiva raspunsurile imune normale - trucuri pe care oamenii de stiinta le-au descoperit abia recent si au invatat sa le invinga.