An Answer to Cancer? Using the immune system to fight cancer -- Longwood Seminar

Published 2017-05-24
Oncologists are turning to a novel form of therapy to combat cancer: retraining or reengineering the immune system to quash tumor growth. In this seminar, hear from Harvard Medical School scientists and clinicians on the latest approaches that use the body’s own defenses to fight cancer.

Speakers:
- Arlene Sharpe, MD, PhD
- Catherine J. Wu, MD
- Jerome Ritz, MD
- David F. McDermott, MD

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All Comments (14)
  • @Roberto-vt3px
    Fantastic! it would be even more commendable if pharmaceutical patents were not placed as a "brakes" for such therapies to be made available to oncology patients worldwide through a free and universal public health system.
  • @SuperMilkytea
    Amazing video, great for getting some background information on my Masters project! thank you
  • Very informative.  thank you for the download. Please keep the videos coming.
  • I am a Natural Medicine advocate and a Cancer Awareness Coach and have been helping lots of cancer people through natural way of healing. One of my client have stage 4 lung cancer and was getting better with my method until she tried immunotherapy that was introduced by her oncologist, and the drug she was introduced to was Pembrolizumab (Keytruda). She suffered a lot of complications and died in 2 weeks. In this seminar, it should be included of the immediate side effects and its long term side effects.
  • Dr. Coley's toxin had success back in 1900. Why so little progress more than a century later?
  • @rgh2164
    White blood cells avoid cancer cells, because cancer cells maintain low heat profile. Gonads and embryos too maintain low heat profile and are avoided by white blood cells. Embryos are dependent on mother’s body temperature for gene expressions and growth. Gonads maintain lower temperature levels for production of haploid cells.The cure for cancer probably lies in raising the temperature of cancer cells by half a degree or within 1 degree C by a device and a technique as used in hyperthermia treatment of cancer. The result is expected to be resumption of TCA cycle or apoptosis or benign tumour. Cancer is a disease caused by gene mutation as currently believed. The main hallmark of cancer is the increased glucose consumption and stoppage of other two processes which generate enough ATPs to provide the normal cell energy and heat for its functioning. In sum, cancer cells are heat starved and need heat sustenance as in brooding.
  • @MichaelD-ne9vs
    Well, watching them melt away within 48 hours felt so good, and yes, I used what I mentioned the other day. It actually took a bit more to make them totally disappear, I just go’ogled Melissa Thanderski and the pain unexpectedly disappeared so quickly.
  • @dreamci
    wow, so big and long titles! So important people!. what have you been cured or extended people's life more than a few months? Ego and title show sitting on big salaries.
  • @litico1
    tumors are black...inmmune system is not black...same in Science, Nature, Lancet...