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2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: a turning point in the war on cancer

  • Written by Duane Mitchell, Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Florida
James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo win the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their foundational work on cancer immunotherapy.The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Kyoto University, CC BY-SA

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