By the way, I keep meaning to mention this. Amid all the midterm mayhem, murder, and garment-rending, the media has completely failed to give a story that really could be the biggest of the century, and cause for global rejoicing, on the front page for day after day--
Do you realize--I didn't at all, until my father pointed it out--why James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine?
I'd skimmed the story. It wasn't at the top of the news. I didn't see column after column about it. The significance of it eluded me.
I'd skimmed the story. It wasn't at the top of the news. I didn't see column after column about it. The significance of it eluded me.
They won it because th ey cured cancer.
Let that sink in .
Let that sink in .
Cured, not "developed a treatment." Not all cancers, not yet, but they found a way to pick the lock, for sure. Checkpoint inhibitors. They're using words like "miracle."
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“She got a single injection of ipilimumab, and six months later her tumors were completely gone.”
Gone. Not in remission. Cured.
Gone. Not in remission. Cured.
So with a little luck, historians will not remember this as the Age of Trump.
They will remember this as the epoch in which we finally conquered cancer. So long as we don't do anything stupid, like blowing up the world in a nuclear war, these are, in fact, astonishing times.
They will remember this as the epoch in which we finally conquered cancer. So long as we don't do anything stupid, like blowing up the world in a nuclear war, these are, in fact, astonishing times.
