Combination Therapy & 2018 Noble Prize
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Combination Therapy & 2018 Noble Prize

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      • March 23, 2019 at 12:10 pm
      Bubbles
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      So many of us here owe our existence to Allison and Honjo, don't we???  Not to mention how the mechanisms they came to understand, have continued to progress…not just as researchers learn even more about the process of immune regulation…but in tangible lives saved in cancers beyond melanoma:  bladder and kidney cancer, multiple myeloma, lymphoma, NSCLC, breast, ovarian, head and neck, brain and colorectal cancers.  By applying the same concepts to other conditions, amazing improvements in well being are being attained for folks with inflammatory diseases like Chron's, IBD, rheumatoid arthritis, and proriasis as well.  

      It's all quite miraculous.  While link above alludes to it…there were 19th century forebearers to this story!!  I wrote about them here:  https://chaoticallypreciselifeloveandmelanoma.blogspot.com/2016/01/part-1-immunotherapythe-original-super.html  And though I think these researchers are certainly deserving of the Nobel Prize, the ratties here and elsewhere deserve a bit of recognition as well:  https://chaoticallypreciselifeloveandmelanoma.blogspot.com/2016/01/part-2-ratties-and-hope.html  

      Thanks for sharing, Gene – and for being an amazing rattie yourself!!!  May more research be ongoing that saves even more lives!!! celeste

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