Opening. The latest achievements in immunotherapy to combat neoplasms and other serious diseases. Charles Greber

Immunotherapy is one of the newest, promising areas that improves the quality of life of patients with serious diseases. Why do adherents of drug therapy are in doubt on its effectiveness, despite obvious successes? Indeed, can the body heal itself from cancer, dementia or multiple sclerosis? And if he can, why doesn't it do? This book will send you on a fascinating journey through the world of medical discoveries. Together with patients and pioneers, you will learn how our immunity works, which will help to activate it and why the hyperactive immune system is so terrible. Real detective stories with an admixture of thriller and, sometimes, science fiction - this is how you can evaluate the path of doctors who, throughout their lives, tried to decipher the riddles set before people with such familiar and such incredibly complex human body. The book is based on discoveries for which the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was awarded in 2018.