all about combinations now adding. immunotherapies different american therapies together are you know therapies with with radiation or chemotherapy but hopefully a doses that are so toxic because all they need to do is kill have to miss cells to excite the immune system about and they don t need to kill every last tumor cell with with radiation or chemotherapy. and i think as we get more experience with with you know combinations that are based on you know no no facts no mechanisms that we will do very well with with many types of cancer yeah there are some such as clear best on the acrobatic kester. really haven t responded. well at all yet and we re working on that now to a lot of us are algorithm boast you re doing you re doing it you know you re doing really wonderful work and we wish you lots of success james allison the nobel prize
one of the pioneers of this treatment the immunologist james allison his work won him the nobel prize for medicine. and last year professor allison it s an honor to have you on the day we re glad that you re taking the time to talk with this. getting a cancer diagnosis it is a life changing event your mother died of the disease my mother was diagnosed with cancer what what kind of hope does immunotherapy offer to cancer patients and their families. well cancer therapy opera s incredible hope for people. and their families were planning in some cancers such as melanoma a fraction of patients will be alive ten day any skittish ten years after a single round of treatment and more there s one patient who has a divot very first who s eighteen years out. in
2018 nobel prize for medicine for their work on immunotherapy which unleashes the immune system to fight cancer. the fda has been nothing short of revolutionary. we used chemotherapy which is highly toxic on modestly effective and the faked is fda s approving new drugs. i think amid the bad news of
a drug that could have treated them thousands. in the mean time alexander fleming experienced a personal triumph in october one thousand nine hundred forty five just a few months after the end of the second world war in europe he was awarded the nobel prize for medicine together with his oxford colleagues howard florey and ernst chain. without intense pressure from the military and the exceptional circumstances of the war economy the breakthrough would have taken longer than it did. but i will say. one more mother was. happening injunctions. and so long. so maybe i wouldn t be. like kevin brown today
a personal triumph in october one thousand nine hundred forty five just a few months after the end of the second world war in europe he was awarded the nobel prize for medicine together with his oxford colleagues howard florey and ernst boris chain. without intense pressure from the military and the exceptional circumstances of the war economy the breakthrough would have taken longer than it did. but i will say now two cells one more mother with zero. help many injunctions. and. so maybe i wouldn t be. like kevin brown today countless families have their own personal stories of penicillin to tell.