Prominent cancer researcher Steven Rosenberg, MD, PhD. is chief of Surgery at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and a Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences and the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He has been a trailblazer in the development of immunotherapy, which has resulted in the first effective immunotherapies and the development of gene therapy. In addition, he was the first researcher to successfully insert foreign genes into humans.
Quote: “People in America that die of cancer number about 580,000 every year. We desperately, therefore, need additional ways to treat cancer and have been developing immunotherapy as a fourth modality to join surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. Immunotherapy doesn’t use a scalpel, or a radiation beam, or a drug… external forces on the body. Rather it attempts to modify the immune system to fight the cancer.”
Sources: Wikipedia (introduction), “This Revolutionary Treatment Kills Cancer From the Inside Out” (quotation)
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