Chemo Therapy Research Paper

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The future of medicine is here, a new generation of treatments that boost the immune system’s ability to fight and control malignant cells indefinitely have achieved remarkable results over the past five years. The dream of fighting cancer with the immune system goes back at least 125 years to William Coley, a New York physician who injected some of his cancer patients with bacteria to jump start their recovery. Coleys approach was taken up by some doctors, but eventually was put in the back of the filing cabinet after his death, later to be replaced by a treatment called Chemo therapy. Boosting the immune system still, has never lost its appeal. In recent years, as molecular biology has enhanced researchers’ understanding of the immune