Cancer vaccines are showing promise at last

Cancer vaccines are showing promise at last

TOWARDS THE end of the 19th century William Coley, a surgeon in New
York, made a surprising observation. One of his patients, close to
death with a neck tumour, recovered after catching a serious bacterial
skin infection. Intrigued, Coley tried to replicate the finding,
injecting patients with a cocktail of killed bacteria to get their
cancers to regress. He ended up treating over a thousand patients in
this way, often successfully.

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