The Breakthrough

For over 100 years, scientists struggled to find a way to help our natural human immune system fight cancer. Most considered it impossible. But that all changed with The Breakthrough. Do we finally understand cancer well enough to cure it? New York Times bestselling author Charles Graeber writes about his latest research.

When I started working on my book, The Breakthrough, I didn’t know that it would take four years to write.
And I certainly didn’t know that, four years later, the people I was speaking to, and the discoveries they made, would be awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine.
But what I did know, what was immediately obvious, was that the topic was important, but the material wasn’t easy to explain. So, how was I supposed to make a clear, thrilling story out of this complex stuff? The crossroads of two incredibly complex and incompletely understood biological systems, and a field grasped, until recently, by only a handful of MD/PhDs around the world?  
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