Development of Cancer Immunotherapy | Center for Cancer Research - National Cancer Institute

Development of Cancer Immunotherapy | Center for Cancer Research - National Cancer Institute

Development of Cancer Immunotherapy

More than 30 years ago the idea was heretical: a patient’s immune system could be harnessed to fight cancer. NCI scientists’ pursuit of this idea chartered the development of immunotherapy. 


Steven Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D., with Linda Taylor, the first cancer patient he cured using immunotherapy.
Credit: NIH Record